Designer John Greg Ball -Weblog

We visited toronto for Canadian Interiors: Best of Canada awards. Our hoodoo lamp won a Best of Canada Award, as well as the People’s choice award in the products category. (photo above: new orange version at IIDEX Neocon)
The hoodoo lamp will be showing at the Best of Canada Exhibit at Design exchange in downtown Toronto, as well as Canada’s largest exposition and conference for the design, construction and management of the built environment: IIDEX NEOCON.

+ hoodoos.ca
+ Design Exchange

+ IIDEX Neocon

I have always been interested in what other artists / designers work spaces look like. We have all have one. But what do they all look like? Are there similarities? Whats in the studio? What objects do those people collect and admire? What do they surround themselves with? How do they decorate? Or do they even decorate at all? What tools do they use? Is the space inspiring? Is it as mess, or is it tidy and clean?

In my opinion, an artist’s studio is very telling of one’s likes, dislikes, and often speaks alot about their work. The studio is where all the innovation happens for creative people. Above are shots of my own studio in Calgary- hope you enjoy!

Members of Industrial Designers of Edmonton Association were recently featured in this fantastic new book by daab: Young Designers Americas. Products included a few of our pieces from the Hoodoo series, and work by fellow IDEA member- Adriean Koleric. This is a great book, that illustrates many of the talented young designers working in Canada and the U.S. today. Its also available for online purchase Here

There are a number of reasons I moved back home to Calgary. Fly fishing the highwood river is certainly one of them.

Fishing is not a matter of life or death, its much more than that- Anonymous