Posted: June 14th, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: Designlines, exhibitions | Comments Off
Artists Designers in show: Charlotte Kruk, Darryl Barton, Edmund Law, Found Magazine, Jackie Bagley, John Greg Ball, Loyal Loot, Castor Canadensis, Manasc Isaac Architects, Mike Libby, Peter Von Tiesenhausen, Shoko Cesar, Susan Valyi, and The Flow Institute.
This exhibit stimulated a great dialogue about Art, Design and the Environment. Many thanks to Laura Fenniak, Barry Lorne for curating this event @ arthouse.
Posted: April 6th, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: Designlines, exhibitions | Comments Off
See Blend- by John Greg Ball (shown above) in Industreal’s Dream Collection alongside new work in porcelain by: Ettore Sottsass, George J. Sowden, Alessandro Mendini, Michele De Lucchi during this year’s Fabbrica del Vapore- during 46th Salone Internazionale del Mobile 2007.
Posted: November 18th, 2006 | Author: admin | Filed under: Designlines, exhibitions | Comments Off
As part of the hoodoo series, below are two of the new prairie-inspired skateboard graphic concepts that I designed to be fully realized and auctioned at IDEA’s FROST 2006 exhibit in Edmonton this December.
Meat head- inspired by Alberta’s beef industry.
Chaos- inspired by the tall native grasses on Alberta’s prairies.
(real images coming soon)
Posted: September 25th, 2006 | Author: admin | Filed under: Awards + Publications, Designlines, exhibitions | Comments Off
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
Posted: July 31st, 2006 | Author: admin | Filed under: Designlines, exhibitions | Comments Off
Creating “greener”, aesthetic objects that have less environmental impact is challenging, sometimes difficult, and requires alot more creativity than typical projects. As a result, many designers avoid the green component of design. In an effort to push our own boundaries, Shoko Cesar, and Darryl Barton, and myself began collecting egg cartons that were headed for the garbage over two years ago. The result, was our cholesterol lamp we designed for the THAW 2006 exhibit in Edmonton, Alberta. Our lamp reuses the plastic egg cartons, requiring no glue to assemble, and uses blue fluorescent light.
In our words: “North America’s rich and over-indulgent culture generates millions of tons of waste that flow into the landfill every year. Cholesterol lighting helps to block the flow of waste by adding beauty to our devalued waste products. By reusing material that is on its way to the landfill, Cholesterol adds aesthetic value to a disposable material and asks the user to reconsider: what materials are disposable, and what materials can be reused for their aesthetic value”.
More information:
+MoCoLoco.com
+Treehugger.com
+Inhabitat.com
Posted: July 5th, 2005 | Author: admin | Filed under: Designlines, exhibitions | Comments Off
The second *THAW exhibit 2005 was bigger and better than last year’s event! This year we drew over 100 people per day with over 200 attending our opening reception. Honored guests included Robert Lederer, and Councillor Michael Phair. (photos above by: Shoko Cesar)
IDEA
Posted: June 22nd, 2004 | Author: admin | Filed under: Designlines, exhibitions | Comments Off
IDEA’s first *THAW exhibit in 2004 was twice the size of FROST, filling an enormous space at the Red Strap Market in downtown Edmonton. The show was so successful it was invited to be shown as the main feature at the Edmonton Home + Interior Design show, attracting over 25,000 vistors. (shown above: ACID Series Tables and Vase- Designed By Greg Ball)
Thaw 2004