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One of the electives open to third and fourth year Industrial Design students is Exhibition Design. In this class, students get the opportunity to go on ‘behind the scenes’ tours of the Museum of Nature and the Museum of Civilization. These tours give students the chance to learn more about the field of exhibition design and to see what these designers do on a daily basis. This is great experience for upper-year Industrial Design students... Read more
Posted on April 24, 2013 -
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The sun is shining and spring is here, which means that another year of school is wrapping up. This also means that the Industrial Design Graduation Exhibition is just around the corner. This year the School of Industrial Design is also celebrating its 40th anniversary! The fourth year students have been working really hard on their design projects for the exhibition and the results show it! The exhibit will feature 33 design projects completed by... Read more
Posted on April 19, 2013 -
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Hello, my name is Chad Veenkamp and I’m looking for an internship this upcoming summer. If you hadn’t already guessed it, I am in the thick of applying for summer internships. I don’t have too many contacts within the design industry just yet, so my approach is to go with the ‘apply everywhere you can’ method. According to my spreadsheet, the tally of organizations I have contacted so far is 50 (over the time span... Read more
Posted on March 7, 2013 -
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Hey all! I hope you’re having a wonderful day. In my third-year Professional Practice class, we are working on designing our personal brand and logo. I thought I’d share a bit about the process and the personal graphic identity that I have developed. It’s pretty exciting! Firstly, I did some sketches in my sketchbook. At Carleton, we are taught to always start the design process with sketches. Jumping right on to the computer can really... Read more
Posted on February 4, 2013 -
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Hey all, How’s it going? First of all, Happy New Year! I hope everyone had a fantastic Christmas break and you’re ready to return for the second half of the school year. I am entering the second semester of my third year in the Industrial Design program at Carleton. I’m very excited for all the new things we will be learning and the projects we will be working on this semester. What is a new... Read more
Hello again, Sorry I’ve been rather slow in the blog department lately, there are just so many things going on! My studio class, IDES Projects III is a full-credit course this semester. This means that Mondays and Tuesdays (from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.) are devoted to this one class. This is great, but also very tiring. I’m pretty sure that if I created one of those pretty infographics it would consist of a pie... Read more
Posted on October 11, 2012 -
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Hi there! Sorry for my long absence from blogging – I have been enjoying the long, wonderful, lazy, dog days of summer. But have no fear, for I am back and ready to start my third year of study at Carleton University! I can’t believe how fast the past two years have gone. Just the other day I was sitting in the University Centre watching the new, first-year students talking to each other on their... Read more
Posted on September 7, 2012 -
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Hey all, It’s the end of the year again! It’s crazy to think that two years ago I had no idea what it was like to be a university student, nonetheless an Industrial Design student at Carleton University. As an Industrial Design student, you have to live, breathe, think and talk design. I just finished my second year of classes here at Carleton and it’s been a good year – a really good year! That’s... Read more
Posted on April 27, 2012 -
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Hey all! I know it’s been forever since I last updated my blog, but spare time in second-year Industrial Design is very rare. Myself and my fellow Industrial Design classmates just returned from a once-in-a-lifetime ‘Amazing Manufacturing Race’ trip to the Toronto area. We toured a few different factories and got to see first-hand some of the concepts we are learning about in our Mass Production Technologies class. It was really cool to tour the... Read more
Posted on March 12, 2012 -
Chad ,
Hey all, I’m back! As in back in Ottawa, from a much needed and fantastic Christmas break. It didn’t start to feel like Christmas until I returned home (Sarnia, ON) after exams. My roommates and I didn’t put up any decorations at our house in Ottawa and there were no decorations on our the street. During exams I lived in my room, so there were no festivities for me. When I went home, however, the... Read more
Posted on January 12, 2012 -
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