Keith David Shapland
Sessional Faculty and Continuing Studies Instructor
Education:
MA, Liberal Studies, Simon Fraser University
BSc, Industrial Design (Minor in Art), Western Washington University
Bio
Keith Shapland is an industrial designer and educator. As a designer he specializes in the development of mock-ups and prototypes, ranging in scale from a full size 747 interior to tiny surgically implanted medical devices. He has designed and made a wide range of things, including aircraft cockpit voice recorder test and manufacturing equipment, trade show booths and museum exhibits. He was also an image compositor at Mainframe Entertainment on MTV’s Spiderman and Barbie.
Research Interests
Keith spent much of his childhood lost to the worlds that he found in paper. By simply drawing, folding or cutting this miraculous material his ideas seamlessly stepped into the real world. And although for most of his career as an Industrial Designer he utilized a range of other materials like woods, metals and polymers he would often cycles back, full circle to his humble origins and his first love, paper.
When you have a runny nose a piece of tissue paper is the solution, but when you have a brilliant idea that the rest of the world needs to know about, a piece of paper and a pencil are the media best suited to help convey it, and the farther that you are able to take it with paper the more convincing it will be.
