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DesignScheme
Surrounded by plotters, planners, dreamers and artists I decided to hatch a new scheme.
Why not work with like minded people? Bring amorphous synaptic sparks into being. Divide the indivisible. Concieve the inconcievable. Realize the unreal. Visualize the invisible. Birth ideas.
Stir **it up!
Design
As an aspiring design polymath I have dabbled in a number of design schemes.
To me design can be defined simply as figuring things out. What is the best way to proceed? How do we get it to work?
I hope to provide a rounded impression of my personal interests and other schemes that I have been involved with.
The design section has been separated into three parts: visual, physical and digital.
Visual Design
For me it all starts with visualization. My myriad of interests first take shape as 2-dimensional renderings on paper. This allows for immediate feedback, changes and refutation of assumptions made by both myself and the client.
From there we go digital. I am able to transform initial ideas into polished designs quickly with highly developed skills in numerous applications. Being digital allows for active communication with fellow schemers throughout the process.
My visual designs are best represented as illustrations. I have always been fascinated by how things work: mechanical or biological. These interests combined with a dark sense of humour have often led to monsters and machines.
Physical Design
Physical design means things that I have either designed and built, designed to be built, or just built.
I have been fortunate to perform as a cabinet maker with a high-end commercial manufacturer. During my tenure in the company of the LTR Industries team we fashioned millwork for the Brookstreet Hotel, Carlingwood and Bayshore malls, as well as an NAC theatre. My own bathroom vanity (pictured here) owes its counter top to cut off from the food court in Carlingwood.
I assembled my current ride from a variety of sources including my own library of spare parts. After choosing components, developing a colour palette and assembling all the pieces I now ride one of Ottawa's finest fixies.
My electric guitar, the Doozie™, and cafe-racer KZ1000 are in a capital⊄time limbo right now. The majority of parts have been acquired but life has a way of pushing other projects to the fore.
Digital Design
The "scheme" in DesignScheme also refers to the programming language scheme which I became interested in while studying web development. This led to an interest object-oriented and database programming. I later studied and received my Oracle certification in Java.
My visual design skills and veneration of Venn diagrams have allowed me to develop data schemes for robust SQL databases slick as whistle.
I've linked a cover letter I once submitted to help illustrate my data enthusiasm.
data cover
Life Drawing
Life drawing is the calisthenics of visualization, like going to an art gym. There is an immense benefit to your overall artistic fitness by exercising regularly: the building of conceptual awareness, composition, experimentation, light and shadow, colour theory, graphic design, rendering, stylization, symbol creation and on and on. Life drawing is the cross training of visualization.
Animation
As a graduate of the Classical Animation program at Sheridan College and a veteran of the television animation industry, I have a wealth of animation to my credit.
Please go to my animation page.
Credit Where Credit is Due
(also known as the Oscar Speech)
I’d like to thank a number of people and organizations for helping me on my journey.
To my friend Q-Ba Check out his work here who inspired the hatching of the scheme.
The guys and gals @codrops for providing me with this fantastic template. Nice job guys.
Sheridan College, secondly for teaching me how to draw but firstly for introducing me to the majority of brothers. I’m looking at you Skanes, Craigger, Ben, Bakker, Reem, Guno, ah hell the whole year and then some.
The University of Ottawa for teaching me something I was not yet ready to learn. Especially, Leslie Reed who told me, “If you want to do something like that, you’re going to have to learn how to draw first.”
Jill… ahh Jill, Jill, Jill.
My two favourite starship captains, I mean Scottish kings, no I mean pumpkins, the boys, those guys that get me up and moving every day, James and Malcolm.
Mom, Dad and Lee-Ann.
The doctors: DeLa Mothe, Corke, Meiten, Lo and should be doctor Kaj Pindal.
Epp, why’d you have to move?
Perkins, Savage, Archie, Ray, Russell, Robbie, Schlatka and Scottie (you sonovabitch for not letting me know you were “Going to California“).
The Petes, the Ricks, the Jeffs, Buddy, Christ with an I E, the Daves, Lynda, Andy, Jason, Donald, even Paul and Dan.
Tom Waits for being Tom Waits. Also Beyond the Pale brewery and Bridgehead coffee.
I hope that covers the important stuff. If not... next time.
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