Degree Proj.--> Food Photography

Photographs of food I took for the beginning of my cookbook prototyping

Food for Thought

"Does working in a creative field zap you, or make you more likely to pick up a paintbrush or camera?"

Plagued at many times with being burnt out creatively, this post from The Pitch Design Union hit the nail on the head.

The bottom line? We have to learn to manage both...creating art outside of work fuels the creativity at work.

Spatial Ex.--> The Museum of Anthropology at UBC

The Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia, designed by Arthur C. Erickson 1971

"The Museum, located on a very impressive campus site overlooking the Strait of Georgia and the North Shore Mountains, has both academic and public functions. Among its unique features is the visible storage of all artifacts. This eliminates the need to rotate collections from public display to private storage. It also recreates several Indian villages around a pond on the Museum site including vegetation consistent with their original locale.
The focal point of the Museum is the high ceiling Great Hall housing massive totem poles. Large glass windows, towering up to forty feet in height, provide an unobstructed view and enable the totem poles to be seen in daylight against a natural exterior setting. The rest of the galleries house collections of Indian art and other tribal art. An experimental gallery is provided for travelling and student exhibits and for display experiments."

quoted from arthur erickson.com

Spatial Ex.--> The Graham House

The Graham House, designed by Arthur C. Erickson in 1962. Located in West Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

"The site for the house was a rock cliff dropping forty feet from the arrival level down a sheer cliff to a rock bench over the sea. The solution to this difficult site was the creation of a multi-storey house descending the slope in levels.
The formal idea of the piling up of hovering beams was the basis of the composition. These enclose the major living areas, which step down the embankment for four storeys from the carport to the bluff over the sea below. Each area opens onto a roof terrace over the living quarters below, so that there is maximum access to sunlight and view. Because of the ruggedness of the site, the outside living areas are confined almost entirely to the roof areas of the house itself.
A texture difference is achieved between the walls and box beams by using flat siding on the beams and a deep board and batten on the walls. The house is treated with a simple oil finish and the only other materials used in conjunction with the wood are used brick and a Welsh quarry tile."

quoted from arthur erickson.com