Design Area Faculty
Bonne Zabolotney
Acting Associate Dean Design
R | 103-A | T | 604-844-3847 | F | 604-844-3801 | @ | bzabolot@eciad.ca
Bonne Zabolotney is an Associate Professor in Design, specializing in 2D Print Design. She has practiced communication design in the Vancouver community since 1993 working with a wide range of clients, locally and nationally. Her most notable work can be found in the philatelic section of Canada’s National Archives that includes her 1999 stamp design recognizing the formation of the Nunavut territory. Five more of her stamp designs are in the National Archives. She has also worked with some of the largest arts groups in Vancouver including Vancouver Opera, Vancouver Recital Society, and Vancouver International Jazz Festival. Areas of interest include design culture/history, narrative structures in design, information design, and typography.
Interview with Bonne:
What is your first creative or design memory?
Creatively speaking, I spent a great deal of my childhood drawing horses and, curiously, trees. My mom is creative, so we always had fun with making paper flowers, colouring easter eggs, making funny hats for birthday parties — more homespun crafts. My first design memory is at the age of 12, when my dad brought home some presentation boards from an ad agency for a logo design for the company he worked for. I was absolutely fascinated.
Who or what influenced you the most in your educational pursuits?
The woman who taught me art history and design history in art school — she seldom referred to notes, but could speak on topics at great length with absolute enthusiasm. I thought she was a genius, and have been striving to be that smart ever since I sat in her class.
What is your favorite design element or principle?
I don’t think I have a favorite, although I seem to spend a lot of time harping on the principles of visual hierarchy.
Which living designer, design studio, or educator do you most admire?
Those saavy east-coast women: Ellen Lupton, Jessica Helfand, Alice Twemlow. Meredith Davis is also right up there on the list.
Favourite design topics?
Information design, visual narrative, design history.
Most cherished teaching moment or moments?
I love when students tell me that they look at things differently, more critically, because of what they’ve learned in my class.
What book or books do you think design students should be reading?
I think design students should be reading just about anything they can. The more you know about the world, the better you can respond to the problems and challenges placed before you.
If your life was turned into a novel, what would the title be?
Dorothy Parker’s “What Fresh Hell is This?” is already taken, so the working title for mine might be “Battling the InBox: A Lifetime of Email”
Is there anything you haven’t done yet that you want to do?
Oh, I couldn’t possibly reveal my desires — just in case they don’t meet my expectations…
[ Tom Becher]
Associate Professor | Critical Studies
R | 425 | T | 604-844-2821 | F | 604-844-3801 | @ | tbecher@eciad.ca
Tom Becher is an Associate Professor teaching critical studies courses and studios to design students. He has contributed, through a variety of roles in administration and instruction, to design programs at Emily Carr Institute of Art + Design since 1978. Currently, he is active in raising the social and economic capital of design disciplines and design intensive industries in British Columbia. In addition to many community-based initiatives he has promoted, for the last 15 years, best practices in design management through his firm Basix Design Management. He began his career as an architect in 1974 and diversified into interior design, exhibit design, industrial design, computer development and interface design, furniture development and manufacturing, and corporate strategy. On projects from coast to coast and overseas he has practiced design from the scale of authoring master plans for Expo 86 down to the scale of input/output devices for computers. His academic fascination continues to centre on design processes that generate environments, objects and messages that make us more human. His scholarly pursuits have included managing numerous international conferences on new media, contributing to advanced technology boards in corporate, community, and university settings, and researching sustainable best practices in design.
Interview with Tom:
What is your first creative or design memory?
A breakaway late in a hockey game. Beautiful!
Who or what influenced you the most in your educational pursuits?
Henry Elder, a Professor, who suggested I put more rhythm into my writing.
What is your favorite design element or principle?
Paradox is the opportunity for design to take place.
Which living designer, design studio, or educator do you most admire?
Dead designers are the most admired, the living can only aspire.
Favourite quote? (design or other field)
The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it. – Carl Jung
Favourite design topics?
My favourite design topic is how to affix an “ing” onto the word “design”.
Most cherished teaching moment or moments?
Any moment before 10:00 AM.
What book or books do you think design students should be reading?
“The Nature of Order” suite by Christopher Alexander.
If your life was turned into a novel, what would the title be?
Age of Innocence
Is there anything you haven’t done yet that you want to do?
Mildly amuse a class of students.
[ Cristian Blyt]
Associate Professor | Industrial Design
R | 370-F | T | 604-844-3887 | F | 604-844-3801 | @ | cblyt@eciad.ca
Crstian Blyt is an Associate Professor in Industrial Design. He received his MA in Interior Architecture and Furniture Design from the University of Art and Design in Helsinki, Finland and a technical diploma in Wood Product Manufacturing from BCIT. His work encompasses a wide range of international experiences in different segments of the wood design and manufacturing industry. He is also a partner in the design and manufacturing firm, Up and Down Productions and is working on the final stages of commercializing his patented Masters thesis.
[ Charles Dobson]
Associate Professor | Foundation, Critical and Cultural Studies, Design
R | 427 | T | 604-844-2823 | F | 604-844-3801 | @ | cdobson@eciad.ca
Charles Dobson is an Associate Professor teaching in Foundation, Critical and Cultural Studies, and Design. He has a varied background in architecture, graphic design, exhibit design, media advocacy, and community development. He is the author of The Troublemaker’s Tea party: A Manual for Effective Citizen Action, and The Citizen’s Handbook. He is also Director of Popular Education for the New City Institute. His principal area of interest is creative problem solving applied to large-scale social problems.
[ Duane Elverum]
Associate Professor | Foundation, Critical Studies, Design
R | 347 | T | 604-844-2905 | F | 604-844-3801 | @ | elverumd@eciad.ca
Duane Elverum Duane Elverum is an Assistant Professor teaching Design, Foundation, and Critical Studies courses. He sits on the BC Working Group for Sustainable Higher Education, and is currently assisting in the development of a Masters in Climate Change and Sustainability Leadership. This past year he launched the institute’s first required undergraduate course in sustainability for designers.
Research interests centre around the development of sustainability curriculum with specific emphasis on sustainable systems within design and the built environment. A current joint research project entitled Learning Sustainability Teaching (undertaken with colleagues from UBC, SFU and BCIT) was published in Ecological Economics in 2008.
In 1992 he received a degree with honours in architecture from the University of British Columbia for his thesis on Alternative Urban Housing, and for 15 years operated Delve Consultants for Built Environments in Vancouver. From 1995 – 2000 he taught at the UBC School of Architecture where he supervised the Program for Studies in Design Build, which received 2 international awards for design studio curriculum. During his time at UBC, he supervised design studies abroad in Berlin and Prague and was a visiting studio critic at the TU in Dresden.
Interview with Duane:
What is your favorite design element or principle?
Urgency
Favourite quote? (design or other field)
With climate change and the environmental crisis in general, it’s as if we’re all in a car speeding towards a brick wall but we’re arguing about where to sit. Meanwhile the environmentalists and IPCC scientists are all locked in the trunk, and the children are strapped to the grill. The designers and engineers are fighting a deadline trying to make the car go faster and our leaders are making it all legal.
David Suzuki
It may seem impossible to imagine that an advanced technological society could choose, in essence, to destroy itself, but this appears to be happening.
Elizabeth Kolbert
Every morning I awake torn between a desire to save the world and an
inclination to savor it. This makes it hard to plan the day.
E.B. White
What book or books do you think design students should be reading?
Ishmael, Daniel Quinn
Heat, George Monbiot
The Road, Cormac McCarthy
[ Sandra Hoffmann]
Associate Professor | Communication Design
R | 421 | T | 604-844-7008 | F | 604-844-3801 | @ | shoffmann@eciad.ca
Sandra Hoffmann is an Associate Professor, graphic designer, and educator, specializing in Typography. In 1988 she left Vancouver for postgraduate studies (Grafik-Weiterbildung) at the “Schule für Gestaltung” in Basel, Switzerland. From 1991 until 1998 she was founder and partner of various Graphic Design offices in Basel, 1999 until 2007 in Berne, specializing in typographical information design in the areas of public, educational, technical, and administrational communication. Since 1995 she has been Professor for “Typography and Communication Design” at the University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt, Faculty of Design in Germany. In 2003-05 she attended the Executive Masters Programme “Cultural Studies in Art, Media and Design” at the Zurich University of the Arts, where she is currently working on a Ph.D. (Z-Node).
Interview with Sandra:
What is your first creative or design memory?
Making a pink plastecene spaceship-world that fit into my hands, and wishing I was in a closed-off space so I could be alone with it, undisturbed. Helping my little sister to draw.
Who or what influenced you the most in your educational pursuits?
Persistence
What is your favourite design element or principle?
Subtleties, tangency and contradictions.
Which living designer, design studio, or educator do you most admire?
Sabine Zimmermann. Austrian Artist/Professor/Educator.
Favourite quote? (design or other field)
“Wahrscheinlichkeit des Unwahrscheinlichen. Frage ist, wie Unwahrscheinliches wahrscheinlich werden kann.”
Niklas Luhmann
Favourite design topics?
Comparison.
Most cherished teaching moment or moments?
Playing ‘Musical Chairs’ in the Platanenhof, Mathildenhoehe Darmstadt, Germany.
What book or books do you think design students should be reading?
Anything and everything except graphic design annuals.
Is there anything you haven’t done yet that you want to do?
Grow old.
Is there anything you haven’t done yet that you DON’T want to do?
Grow up.
Activities which have influenced your design endeavors?
1 Aeronautics :
- Learning to fly at the age of 17 (complete fearlessness).
- Environmentally friendly flying : Gliding/Soaring/Segelfliegen – flight without power (motorlessness).
- Navigational orientation systems, wayfinding.
- Birds eye viewing.
- Reading the weather, cloud watching.
- Life or death decision-making.
2 Wandering :
- Love of the mountains (Alps).
- Bird and flower admiration.
3 Learning German :
- Learning another language taught me the appreciation of language.
- Made me realize ‘we don’t know what we don’t know’.
- Presented me with disorientation, dislocation, overwhelment.
[ Roman Izdebski]
Associate Professor | Industrial Design
R | 370-E | T | 604-629-4513 | F | 604-844-3801 | @ | rizdebski@eciad.ca
Roman Izdebski is an Associate Professor in the Industrial Design Program. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Poland with a MA in Industrial Design. He taught at the Academy from 1976 to 1981 and then moved to Canada in 1981. He has been involved in the development of two Industrial Design Programs: the first in the Faculty of Environmental Design at the University of Calgary where he taught from 1981-88; and the second, the Industrial Design Program at Emily Carr Institute where he has been teaching since 1989. Roman has attended numerous international conferences and guest lectured in Paris, Berlin, Warsaw, Saint-Etienne, Guangzhou, and Beijing.
In addition to his teaching career, Roman has worked as an Industrial Designer for a multitude of companies in Europe and Canada including Smed Manufacturing, Xerox Canada, Canadian Foremost Ltd., and others, on products ranging from electronics, sporting and heavy-duty equipment, furniture, and graphic design. His design work has received awards and has been exhibited and widely published.
His major teaching and research interest are in the fields of Fundamentals of Basic Design, Furniture Design, and Visualization.
Interview with Roman:
What is your first creative or design memory?
Making paper planes and playing with their geometry.
Who or what influenced you the most in your educational pursuits?
Professor Andrzej J. Wroblewski, my former Professor and Rector of the Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw, Poland who later spent several years teaching in the Department of Art and Design at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
What is your favorite design element or principle?
Form and form giving.
Which living designer, design studio, or educator do you most admire?
Allessi for its commitment to design to this very day (est. 1920).
I have had the opportunity to visit the company factory and headquarters in Crusinallo, Italy leading a group of students from the Industrial Design Program at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Poland, who had designed objects for this company.
Favorite quote? (design or other field)
“Firmitas, utilitas, and venustas” (firmness, commodity, and delight) by Vitruvius, Roman architect of the 1st century. Every well-designed object, system and environment should meet all three criteria.
Favorite design topics?
Semantics of Form – Investigation on what drives form in industrial design. I have a collection of well-designed objects including furniture, electronics and appliances that well illustrate this topic.
Most cherished teaching moment or moments?
Most final design presentations involving partners, including students and colleagues from ECI, companies and other educational institutions in Canada and abroad as well as the Graduation ceremony of ECI grads at Chan Centre and hearing about their successes in Canada and abroad.
What book or books do you think design students should be reading?
“Good Design” by Bruno Munari – $12, -32 pages ISBN-10: 8886250797 , one of the best books on the analysis of natural forms including the orange, the rose and the pea-pod written in a very humorous way. Munari’s in-depth analysis could be applied to every design problem encountered by design students. Highly recommended!!
If your life was turned into a novel, what would the title be?
“Work in progress”
Is there anything you haven’t done yet that you want to do?
Spend time on sketching, traveling and the development of my own projects including designing chocolate, formally of course.
[ Paul Mazzucca]
Assistant Professor | Foundation, Communication Design
R | 266 | T | 604-844-2843 | F | 604-844-3801 | @ | pmazzucca@eciad.ca
Paul Mazzucca is an Assistant Professor in Foundation and Communication Design. He teaches core courses in design foundation as well as core courses in Communication Design. His continues his practice of professional design and illustration with non-profit organizations and corporate clients (Nature Conservancy of Canada, Corning Incorporated) along with his personal research projects in language theories to inform his teaching. He has published results of interaction design education in AIGA’s online journal LOOP. He has taught previously at Maryland Institute College of Art (Baltimore, MD) and Oregon State University (Corvallis, OR). Recent achievements include completion of a limited edition, Letterpress book investigating the cognitive connections between the physical landscape and the printed word.
Interview with Paul:
What is your first creative or design memory?
Making 8mm films and audio “plays” of Irwin Allen disaster movies when I was about 12.
Who or what influenced you the most in your educational pursuits?
Muneera U. Spence
What is your favourite design element or principle?
pixilated pixelation
Which living designer, design studio, or educator do you most admire?
This is a tough question to answer specifically as I could select many different people and companies for many different criteria such as visual form, ethics, environmental practice, influences, humor, innovation, commitment to the advancement to the profession, etc. I suppose someone I realized recently is a true champion of the understanding of the profession is Rick Poynor who can eloquently articulate the desires and cultural importance of design in words.
Favourite quote? (design or other field)
“Chance favors the prepared mind” – Louis Pasteur
Most cherished teaching moment or moments?
When a student in a digital course told me that she “really hates the computer – but also really loves the computer”, and another time when a student had a revelation and “unravelling’ in front of a large class that anything could potentially become a book form.
What book or books do you think design students should be reading?
Anything besides books about design. Things that interest you the most. There is a whole world to discover.
If your life was turned into a novel, what would the title be?
“I Don’t Know- But I Want to Find Out”
Is there anything you haven’t done yet that you want to do?
Kick Dick Cheney in the shins; design and build a simple house; learn how to fly old airplanes.
[ Sharon Romero]
Associate Professor | Communication Design
R | 349 | T | 604-844-2909 | F | 604-844-3801 | @ | sromero@eciad.ca
A broadcast designer, educator, and writer, Sharon Romero teaches core design studios and typography for screen environments. Sharon came to Emily Carr from CBC Vancouver, where she was senior designer, to lead the Electronic Communication Design program at ECI. She has been recognized with numerous awards for broadcast and animated documentary film design from the Toronto International Festival, the Atlanta and Seattle international film festivals, and the Broadcast Designers Association. Her research interests include virtual landscape and architecture, creative processes, rich media entertainment and design theory. Sharon has written and co-written several plays, and is currently researching and writing a book on design education.
[ Deborah Shackleton]
Associate Professor | Communication Design
R | 429 | T | 604-844-2873 | F | 604-844-3801 | @ | dshack@eciad.ca
Deborah Shackleton is an Associate Professor who teaches design and critical studies courses. She holds a Bachelor of Applied Arts degree from Ryerson University and is an MA candidate in the Leadership Program at Royal Roads University. Deborah’s research interests include creativity, participatory design processes, learning theory and instructional design. In addition to her teaching practice Deborah is a published designer, writer and photographer. As a co-recipient of curriculum and social science research grants she has developed projects for the BC Ministry of Advanced Education and the BC Ministry of Education. In 2002, two of these projects received Certificates of Recognition in the BC Innovation Awards in Educational Technology. Spring 2008 marked the release of a new University of Toronto publication on Northrop Frye that features her written and photographic work. Deborah’s graduate work focuses on practice-informed and practice-led research that initially began as a series of interviews with prominent Canadian writers, artists, filmmakers, and dancers. This year, The National Gallery of Canada and its affiliate the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography will post images of her work on Cybermuse, an educational website. In addition to her graduate studies, Deborah is developing a new course in design research methods for Emily Carr Institute. She is a professional member of the Society of Graphic Designers of Canada and the Canadian Association of Photographers and Illustrators in Communications.
Interview with Deborah:
What is your first creative or design memory?
I was two and my mom had baked me a birthday cake. It had white icing and was decorated with a ring of five-flavour, LifeSaver candies; my first lesson in colour theory.
Who or what influenced you the most in your educational pursuits?
-an insatiable curiosity and love of learning
What is your favourite design element or principle?
Simplification/complification
Which living designer, design studio, or educator do you most admire?
Jessica Helfand, William Drentell, Ellen Lupton, J. Abbot Miller, Alice Twemlow, John Maeda, Paula Scher, Experimental Jetset, Cyan, Underware, Kenya Hara, Steedman Design, Seven25, Muriel Cooper (deceased)
Favourite quote? (design or other field)
Not really a quote; more like a citation:
“This is the setting out. The leaving of everything behind. Leaving the social milieu. The preconceptions. The definitions. The language. The narrowed field of vision. The expectations. No longer expecting relationships, memories, words, or letters to mean what they used to mean. To be, in a word: Open.” Rabbi Lawrence Kushner
Favourite design topics?
-Community, concepts, humanity, presence, empathy, systems, ideation, “plenitude”, sustainability, narrative, research…
Most cherished teaching moment or moments?
-When students infuse their thinking and making by mapping conceptual territories in a rigorous exchange of critical analyses and iterative design cycles that enable their learning and capacity building as citizen designers.
What book or books do you think design students should be reading?
-The Plenitude: Creativity, Innovation, and Making Stuff by Rich Gold
-The Laws of Simplicity; Design, Technology, Business, Life by John Maeda
-Presence: An Exploration of Profound Change in People, Organizations, and Society by Peter Senge, C. Otto Scharmer, Joseph Jaworski and Betty Sue Flowers
There’s a theory for chaos?
Is there anything you haven’t done yet that you want to do?
-Enter a dog in the Westminster Dog Show in New York.
Is there anything you haven’t done yet that you DON’T want to do?
-To train a dog to enter the Westminster Dog Show in New York.
[ Louise St. Pierre]
Associate Professor | Industrial Design
R | 431 | T | 604-844-2826 | F | 604-844-3801 | @ | lsp@eciad.ca
Louise St. Pierre is an Associate Professor of Industrial Design at ECI. She previously taught industrial design at the University of Washington for 10 years (7 years as Chair of the program). She is co-author of Okala Ecological Design, a curriculum that helped to establish ecological teaching methods in design schools across North America. She has received numerous awards for her design work (the Industrial Designer’s Society of America and The American Center for Design), and been published in ID Magazine, Print Magazine, Innovation, and Communication Arts. Louise has received funding for a broad range of collaborative research projects including funding to support exploratory student work on sustainable product design from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Most recently, she has been a juror for the Dell ReGeneration International Green Computing Design Competition. Her interests in research, teaching, and practice range from ecological design to product and exhibition design. She is dedicated to teaching methods that allow industrial designers to work collaboratively across disciplines and helping them to bring human-centered research methods to their work.
Interview with Louise:
What is your first creative or design memory?
Trying to find an adult who could teach me how to draw perspective, when I was 5 years old.
Who or what influenced you the most in your educational pursuits?
Victor Papanek
Favourite quote:
Whenever I have to choose between two evils, I always like to try the one I haven’t tried before. (Mae West)
Which living designer, design studio, or educator do you most admire?
Paola Antonelli, Leonard Koren, John Thackara, Hella Jongerius, Fiona Raby, Lorraine Justice, Douglas Varey, Lucy Orta, Brenda Laurel, Paul Hawken, Philip White, Ann Thorpe, David Suzuki, Kenya Hara, Steve Belletire, Pieter Stappers, Eugenia Bertulis, Elizabeth Sanders, Tadao Ando, Jasper Morrison, Katherine McCoy
Most cherished teaching moment or moments?
The moment when I see a student succeeding.
What book or books do you think design students should be reading?
Any and all books, magazines, journals that intelligently describe the state of the world.
If your life was turned into a novel, what would the title be?
God, I don’t know.
Is there anything you haven’t done yet that you want to do?
Yes.
[ Clemént Vincent]
Assistant Professor | Communication Design
R | 441 | T | 604-844-3083 | F | 604-844-3801 | @ | cvincent@eciad.ca
Clément Vincent is an Assistant Professor in Communication Design. He has been practicing design as a freelance and in-house designer since 1994. In Paris, he worked for the Bibliothèque nationale de France, and the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle. He also freelanced for a variety of clients. For Jean Widmer visuel design/Le Moniteur he art directed and designed with Brigitte Monnier, Un siècle de constructions a 5-hundred-page survey of architectural design in two volumes. He holds a graduate degree in Visual Communication and a postgraduate degree in Press Publishing from l’École nationale supérieure des Arts décoratifs (ENSAD, Paris). As a professor, he taught in France (École supérieure d’Art et de design, Reims) and in the U.S. (Oregon State University, Corvallis). His design practice covers different facets of communication design: art direction, corporate identity systems, signage systems, exhibition design, book design, magazine design, information design, packaging, and electronic publishing.
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[ Joanna Ambrosio]
Studio Technician III | Communication Design
R | 343 | T | 604-844-3841 | F | 604-844-3801 | @ | jambrosio@eciad.ca
Joanna Ambrosio is a Studio Tech 3 in the Communication Design Stream. Hold a Bachelor of Design with Honors from Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Occidente, Mexico. Specialized in Graphic Design and Interactive graphics, she is a member of Mátika Lab team since 2005, which among other products, created the Mexican magazine Mátika Revista. She collaborates as a Graphic, Editorial and Web Designer. Mátika Lab has been well recognized among professional designers and artists around the globe, including Mexico, Los Angeles (CA, EU), Barcelona (Spain) and Vancouver (BC, Canada). Currently completing a Masters of Applied Arts at Emily Carr Institute, developing a research in Street Art based on new technologies to create graffiti.
Interview with Joanna:
What is your first creative or design memory?
I learned to draw before I started talking. My dad always bought me jumbo-sized color books and hundreds of color pencils and crayons. I guess the most memorable first design memory was when I helped decorate the whole “Noah Arch” stand at the elementary school fair, when I was about 7 years old.
Who or what influenced you the most in your educational pursuits?
My dad, and the pursuit of a true communication between humans.
What is your favourite design element or principle?
The form.
Which living designer, design studio, or educator do you most admire?
Today Milton Glaser, tomorrow who knows.
Favourite quote? (design or other field)
“Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery” Bob Marley
Favourite design topics?
- New tools and technology for designers!
- Design as a bridge between mind and consciousness.
What book or books do you think design students should be reading?
“How do objects are born?” by Bruno Munari.
“Drawing from Life” by Jennifer New.
Everything and anything that they like to read about.
If your life was turned into a novel, what would the title be?
“Bajada a tamborazos”
Is there anything you haven’t done yet that you want to do?
Give birth. Go to Japan. Buy a super-duper-mega powerful all included, ready to go, almost a dream desktop Mac.
[ Brian Fossl]
Studio Technician III | Industrial Design
R | 386-A | T | 604-844-3842 | F | 604-844-3801 | @ | bfossl@eciad.ca
Brian Fossl is a Studio Technician 3 for Industrial Design and is responsible for the operations of the wood shop off the Industrial Design studios on the third floor of the south building. He holds a Bachelor of Applied Arts degree from Ryerson Polytechnical Institute.
Interview with Brian:
Favourite quote? (design or other field)
When I’m working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know that it is wrong. *-Buckminster Fuller*
Favourite design topics?
Furniture Design, Space and Landscape Design
Most cherished teaching moment or moments?
Looking out over the shop floor and seening it full of young men and women energetically putting shape to their ideas, working confidently on equipment that might have intimidated them a few months earlier.
What book or books do you think design students should be reading?
Dwell Magazine, but just look at the pictures.
Just read a lot of anything, especially if it isn’t design related.
Disgrace by JM Coetzee
If your life was turned into a novel, what would the title be?
The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus: the morning after a really long day, expecting to come to the shop for more of the same.
Annapurna by Maurice Hertzog
Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss
[ Cliff Veley]
Studio Technician III | ITS | Communication Design
R | 341 | T | 604-844-3828 | F | 604-844-3801 | @ | cveley@eciad.ca
Cliff Veley has diplomas in Graphic Design and Photography from St. Lawrence College of Applied Arts & Technology. Through computer courses, self-directed studies and creative pursuits he continues to expand and enhance his knowledge of digital technology. He is a MAC Studio Tech 3 with ITS – Curriculum.
Interview with Cliff:
What is your first creative or design memory?
As a boy of about 11 or 12 I used to copy the drawings in the contests from the back of magazines that had illustrations of people and animals. I was OK until I grew up and now I can’t draw at all.
Who or what influenced you the most in your educational pursuits?
As a marine mechanic I was tired of being laid off every winter because of the winter freeze up back in Ontario. So I decided to go to College.
What is your favourite design element or principle?
Borders and drop shadows.
Which living designer, design studio, or educator do you most admire?
None in particular – too many to mention and some are dead.
Favourite quote? (design or other field)
When in doubt put it on an angle.
Favourite design topics?
Does the computer create everything?
Most cherished teaching moment or moments?
When my Design Instructor said to the class on the very first day that about half of us students will not make it past the first semester. I made it through to graduation.
What book or books do you think design students should be reading?
All that they can. Sleep, eat, talk and dream design.
If your life was turned into a novel, what would the title be?
Keep your eyes and ears open and have fun.
Is there anything you haven’t done yet that you want to do?
Get published.
[ Sylvia Smallman]
Studio Technician II | Communication Design
R | 343 | T | 604-844-3841 | F | 604-844-3801 | @ | ssmallma@eciad.ca
Sylvia Smallman is a Studio Tech 2 Communication Design. Sylvia’s educational background includes courses in painting, drawing and photography as well as the Art and Merchandising Program at Langara College. As a lifelong learner she has taken courses in print production and graphic arts at the Vancouver Vocational Institute. One of her many passions is letterpress. She is responsible for the letterpress shop, sewing machines, and print assembly areas.
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