School of aHo

11/18/09

Buick Project

Center Console. A start.
reduction of material to promote sustainability.

The accumulation of my 7 week project in Tokyo @ Toyota.
2012 Global Compact car for Youth based on a Yaris package.
Great internship, great times. I learned more here than I could have ever imagined. Thanks everybody!

7/3/09

Toyota Tokyo

ok I wish I could talk about Toyota stuff, but I`d be violating the contract....hm. anyways this is everything I could imagine and more. Tokyo Design center. sooo sick!!!!

6/12/09

Continental

So I decided to extend the "American Icon" CCS project into the summer.

6/9/09

Gehry's A.G.O.

My recent quest for inspiration brought me to the surrealist exhibit at the newly-refurbished art gallery. At first glance this building seems too tame to really be a "Gehry building", he merely added a glass facade to the existing building...

...BUT after absorbing it with the artwork and the city, I decided this gallery is well-executed and very appropriate. Considering the surrounding environment; Gehry designed accordingly. Context first. Shock value second. Shouldn't all design strive for this?

compare to these somewhat recent Toronto structures:
Libeskind's crystal aka the ROM

and Alsop's table which houses OCAD (art school)...

Gehry marries the old and new buildings harmoniously and effortlessly. In contrast, Libeskind seems to have arbitrarily smashed his creation into the old museum and Alsop's looks like a UFO just landed ...

For a mild Canadian city, do we need such flamboyant cries for attention? They stand out in Toronto like newly-sprouted pimples. Though the latter two are bold in form, Gehry's gallery trumps in function. He most definitely is a genius.

6/2/09

one mo fo the fans.

great practice. now back to cars.

am i dreaming?

....so I got my plane ticket to Narita from TEE-MC, all I need to do is pick up the visa. Only one month away, is this really real?!

6/1/09

cars are boring.

So, I've been trying to do get myself out of this mental block...I decided to do something different, newsprint and nature! Skulls have such subtle implied forms, such challenging surfaces.

5/27/09

Mesmerizing jellies

sea creatures have such a magical quality.

While in Cali...

A friend gave me a book that I really couldn't put down for most of the trip. After months of not reading anything worthwhile (I blame CCS), I've finally gained some much needed perspective ...and vocabulary.

Here it comes, don't laugh. The book's called: "Let's Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste". And though it's an all-out Celine Dion bashing extravaganza, the deeper analysis on the nature of taste is not only intriguing but really quite provoking. A humorous read I recommend to anybody and everybody.

The Colbert Report

Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c

Carl Wilson

colbertnation.com

Colbert Report Full Episodes

Political Humor

Keyboard Cat

5/18/09

I lied.

Thanks to hotel wifi and my trusty iPod, I'm blogging again..!

I need to make it a goal to settle in California one day. It's just too nice here, everything is so laid back and upbeat, the weather is beautiful...knowing myself, ill probably change my mind when I'm in Japan haha. I need a change of environment, my life has become so dreary and routine at school and home.

5/14/09

Out 4 ah hwile.

California: give me insight; inspire me.
for CCS has killed my imagination..

ill be back in a bit...

The secret to creativity...

...is knowing how to hide your sources.
- Albert Einstein.

But is creativity rooted in deception? If we coexist together in an open and exposed global forum like the Internet, can anything still be considered original? When we can be so easily exposed to the world, can true creativity still thrive? Whether consciously or not, we all see and filter ideas rehashing the cherry-picked ones into our own. Finding inspiration in the world we live in, where nothing is really new, we should all have the potential to be innovative.