Art & Culture
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Wild About Humour
What makes us laugh? Why does your dad think puns are the best thing ever? Why doesn’t anyone understand Gen-Z humour? On the surface, understanding humour seems like a simple proposition—we see something…
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Wild About Maps
When was the last time you used a paper map? Years, probably. Or maybe never. Today, we rely on digital maps that come with built in directions and the ability to pull up…
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Happy Anniversary, Little Blog!
Last August, I decided I wanted to create something that would celebrate the richness of the world around us. Life feels heavy these days and news and the internet only seem to add…
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Wild About Political Art
All art is political. This truism of the art world seems especially valid as capitalism tries to wring the last dollar from every artist endeavour and AI hoovers up images to spit out…
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Wild About Colourful Design
I love colour. When we moved into our bland suburban house in our boring suburban neighbourhood, one of the first things I did was to paint the front door a bright turquoise. The…
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Wild About Creativity
Creativity is intelligence having fun. – Albert Einstein We often think of creativity as something that belongs to the arts, whether it be painting or writing or music. In reality, of course, creativity…
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Wild About Human-Centered Design
Have you ever thought about doors? More specifically, why some doors are intuitively easy to open while others stymie our instincts, leaving us standing like idiots as we try to figure out whether…
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Wild About Art and Urban Infrastructure
By their nature, cities are functional. Streets provide conduits for cars and bicycles, utility and sewer lines weave throughout our buildings, sidewalks and crosswalks create safer corridors for pedestrians. Layered over top of…
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Wild About Colour
What if I told you that colour doesn’t exist? First, a return to your elementary school science class might be helpful. When light hits objects around us, those objects absorb different frequencies. The…
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Wild About Reclaiming the Domestic Arts
Embroidery. Knitting. Quilting. Weaving. Each of these craft forms takes skill and time to do well and each has been used to tell stories as elaborate as any painting or sculpture. And yet,…
