Category: Personal

pretty | VanDusen Botanical Garden, a photo by kaishin | dash of food on Flickr. felt like sharing something that represented these summer days… 🙂

Augmented reality leader Layar just took its system to a whole new level by installing a real-world object recognition protocol that’s a little like Google’s Goggles. In one swoop it may have turned AR apps from intriguing, inspiring, and occasionally useful toys into serious tools for information discovery and, of course, advertising. Let’s call it […]

Last night I had the pleasure of sitting in on a talk by Mineo Yamamoto out at the UBC Beaty Biodiversity Museum, along with my good friend, Rachael Ashe, and learned about the art of fish and nature printing, Gyotaku. It was interesting to learn that the acting of making a rubbing originated in China, […]

via blog.flickr.net In my possession, I have about 5 cameras total, tho I would probably have more if I had time and money to shoot film. I’m always in awe seeing other people’s camera collection, esp when vintage or that they are all working cameras too! Different types of camera can give totally different perspectives […]

via youtube.com Now that’s smart User Focused design thinking. Empathize with the busy consumer, make more efficient of their lost time while waiting for transit, save them time with a new way of visual/virtual grocery shopping = Win-Win. Love it!  

via vancourier.com Aww, here I am (lower right corner) with the Canada Parks Board Crew from Ucluelet, working on the mosaic at Grandview Elementary. It’s reported that the projected ended up with 180 volunteers, all ING customers and employees, with additional assistance from summer school kids from the neighbourhood, and little ones from Grandview Elementary […]

via thenextweb.com Love hearing about useful designs like this 🙂 A typeface that helps dyslexic people read more easily. Now that’s good problem solving/design 🙂

VANCOUVER – More than 150 employees and clients from an online bank are taking the day off to spend it building a playground in one of Vancouver’s poorest neighbourhoods. ING Direct clients, employees and local residents are spending a full day building a new outdoor playground at Grandview Elementary on Woodland Drive. This isn’t just […]

via ted.com   Neil Pasricha’s, The 3 A’s of awesome totally resonates with me: Attitude, Awareness and Authenticity. This is how I have tried to live my life, without defining it in physical word descriptions, but here you go 🙂 Seeing this makes me smile and feel the happiness I have felt in the last […]

via flickr.com photo by kaishin chu © 2011 I’m always happy to see a new fruit come into season, the tale of time and seasons changing 🙂

For most of my design career, I advocated the importance of a company’s mission statement or goals, it’s branding story, and fulfilling their target markets need – not just the physical apparel, but the emotional and feelings derived from using the product/service. Empathy is a huge part of what is important in my mind, as […]

via flickr.com love studying skeletons of other creatures, stirs the imagination 🙂 I wish I lived closer to the Smithsonian of Natural History…

via flickr.com Sometimes my work involves lovely little eye candies 😉 I’ve never had much interest in precious stones/ gems, and yet I really like these swarovski crystal buttons 😉 I think what holds my attention more is the presentation and packaging of these buttons. I sourced these for months and finally happened upon Swarovski […]

via siongchin.com Thanks to Siong for sharing the works of Alex McLeod. I love the whimsical worlds created by Alex, the colours the shapes, just love it all.

via scoutmagazine.ca Great list of things related to how good life is in Vancouver. It’s the essence of Vancouver 🙂 Try checking off this list this year. I dare you to have some fun 😉

via springwise.com This totally reaffirms my thoughts on the importance of ‘Experience’ and evoking a sense of feelings in our busy lives, such as good childhood memories, simpler days. Instead of a stale hotel room, you get a camping experience, much like relieving childhood memories of pitching a bed sheet over sofa and chairs in […]

Over the weekend I was fortunate enough to have randomly visited the Vancouver Aquarium with a close friend of mine and two out of town visitors. It had been years since I last had the opportunity to go. I’m always inspired seeing the beauty of the underwater world, the colours, the softness of the the […]

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via photojojo.com It’s so crazy to realize that 6 months has passed by when I just received this photo time capsule of my photos from half a year ago. 6 months ago that was a really chaotic time, it was the most chaotic time of my life with dad’s dementia hitting the peak and I […]

via thisiscolossal.com I really like this idea of altered books, this way all it’s entirety is preserved and one can still see the cover too. Lovely.