Calgary designer John Greg Ball and work with Artist/ Designer Shoko Cesar is featured in this month’s Culture 2007 Trends: DESIGN article.
From the article:“a new generation of Canadian men is turning out some supremely sexy furniture. Murray Whyte considers the new heat in national design”.
INDUSTREAL wins Wallpaper* Design Award 2007 for Best Ceramic Collection.
(part of which: Blend- By Greg Ball is included, and soon to be in production)
More to come…
liberte d’expression • creative freedom- article by Louis giguere
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.
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
Canadian Interiors Magazine recently published the 9th annual Best of Canada awards. One of the winners in the Products category was the hoodoo lamp designed in 2005 by myself and Artist/ Designer: Shoko Cesar. We are thrilled to be visiting Toronto again this September to receive our award, and to meet the other great designers who placed in the Best of Canada competition.
From the article:
Intended to convey the spirit of the powerful Alberta landscape, the Hoodoo lamp was inspired by hoodoos – spooky, spiky stone formations eroded by wind and water – in the Drumheller badlands. The four-foot-tall sculptural shape, reminiscent of a topographical map, was made by combining layers of Coroplast, a corrugated plastic sheet material, that were precision-cut by a computer-driven milling machine.
Judges comments:
Levitt: Casper the friendly ghost! A flying saucer! This is an unusual work that makes you ask, “What’s going on?”
Taylor: Well, the blue fluorescent bulb does emit a ghostly glow.
Following Kelly Rude’s tour of Alberta last fall, a fantastic article (contributed by: Shafraaz Kaba) appeared in Canadian interiors in April that began to summarize the growing design scene here in Alberta. The name of the article was: “energy alberta”. Featured was an image of me (above right) and some of the work of many of my collegues from Edmonton and Calgary. In my opinion, without the associated groups like MADE in Edmonton, and IDEA our energy could not be more focussed here in Alberta. In summary, a great article that has hopefully shed some light on the ‘energy” happening here in our province. My congrats to everyone who works so hard volunteering their time (especially in Edmonton) to make our province a great place to live and work!
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.
