Wry & Ginger by Azure

posted on May 14, 2008 by Paige Magarrey | Comments[0]

Categories: Product design, Art, Events

If the Wry & Ginger by Azure exhibit opening in New York at Design Within Reach this Friday teaches us anything, it’s that Canadian designers need not shy away from being Canadian. The show, featuring iconic symbols, traditional techniques and materials native to the True North Strong And Free, makes one thing clear: when it comes to design, Canada rocks!

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Canvassing Opinion

Posted on May 12, 2008 by Rachel Pulfer | Comments[0]

Categories: Product design, Events

Coming up on Sunday May 18th at this year's International Contemporary Furniture Fair in New York: left coast design lab Orange 22 will launch its Botanist Blank Canvas project. Eight designers – including Margo Chase (design shown) and the inimitable Milton Glaser – will show off their take on a new line of the company's sleek minimalist furniture, at an exclusive launch and silent auction at the Chelsea Art Museum.

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How To Help Myanmar

Posted on May 8, 2008 by Rachel Pulfer | Comments[0]

Categories: Architecture, Events

In the wake of Cyclone Nargis, which struck Myanmar on May 3, Architecture for Humanity – an international non-profit that links designers and architects to those supplying housing for disaster relief efforts – estimates that over 1 million people may now be in need of emergency housing. Here's how you can help.

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Making Contact

Posted on May 7, 2008 by Shannon Anderson | Comments[0]

Categories: Events

Torontonians: are billboard-sized photographs turning up in the oddest places? Images of upside-down trees wrapped around the Gardiner Expressway posts? A massive mural on Queen Street of a building explosion? If you haven’t already figured it out, this is photography month in Toronto. And this is no pseudo, ad-hoc event: Toronto’s Contact photography festival is now the world’s largest event dedicated to photography.

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An Expansive Vision

Posted on May 5, 2008 by Gwen McAuley | Comments[0]

Categories: Architecture

The west coast aims high when it comes to living green, and Bunting Coady is doing their part. The Vancouver-based firm boasts an impressive sustainable projects list — and the Kwantlen University College Library in Surrey, BC, completed in late 2007 and now registered for LEED Platinum certification, is only the latest.

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The Paper Architect

Posted on May 2, 2008 by Rachel Pulfer | Comments[0]

Categories: Architecture

Shigeru Ban’s name is synonymous with creativity. His work literally turns notions of what’s possible in design inside out. He has designed everything from houses with moveable rooms, to temporary shelters in refugee camps that use paper tubes as their primary construction material. And he's not just a humanitarian on a mission—during a recent talk at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design, Ban proved that architects can be funny, too.

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Black and White in Colour

Architects Gilles Saucier and André Perrotte’s studio in a former Mont­real factory draws on energy from the creative life.  By Adele Weder

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