Designer John Greg Ball -Weblog

gaining national, and international exposure for the amazing cabin exhibit, motherbrand -global design collective has new project featuring more canadiana and some of the long lost design objects of our nation.

“In the same vein as CABIN, only with a new spin, the designs featured are the found remnants of Canada’s most rapidly declining resource; local design. To serve as the seed for CDR, the objects were put into context at the annual Gladstone Hotel “Come up To My Room” exhibit in Toronto. As one of the contributors of this fabulous resource, I am very excited to see great design objects being recognized including: The Solair Chair, Thermos, Ceramics, Windsor salt, The Wacky Carpet, Len Thompson Fishing Lures, and more. Just another reminder that Mother really does love us!” via mocoloco

+ Canadian Design Resource

-JGB

come see the hoodoo lamp designed by Shoko Cesar + Greg Ball in the prototype exhibit at the 2006 toronto interior design show Feb-23-26.  (Photo above by: rina chan)

Hoodoo series got some attention in Western Living Magazine in January.

I’m a little late on this, but the Doghouse project was featured in Elle Decoration magazine in Hong Kong this January.

As a sign of its economic prosperity, Calgary has just installed the first phase of the 7th avenue redevelopment project. 7th ave stretches right down the centre of downtown as a transit-only street. (This was project I had worked on while a designer at Carlyle + Associates in Edmonton). The photo above shows the calgary “c-train” bursting at the seams before it unloads its hundreds of people onto the new transit station platform. 

I walked to work today from bridgeland LRT station in the fresh snow. Photo of the frozen Bow River looking west.