Hoodoo lamp wins a best of canada award

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.

canadian interiors- energy alberta

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 in Western Living

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

Elle Docoration- Hong Kong

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

Hoodoo Rack on Core 77

Core 77 posts the Hoodoo rack

Blue Hoodoo on MoCo Loco

The blue Version of our Hoodoo Lamp, the hoodoo rack, and the Fish bottle opener were posted on MoCo
-thanks Harry!

Interview With John Christakos

Being the Chair of MADE in Edmonton has given me the opportunity to meet many great designers/ business people. In September 2005 we organized a public lecture of John Christkos of Blu Dot with The Works, and The Edmonton Art Gallery. During his visit we toured around with Chet Domanski, and sat down for an interview. What I liked about John is that he didn’t take himself too seriously…. he was alot of fun to talk with.
The work of Blu Dot has been exhibited in the Museum of Modern Art, and is in the permanent collection of the Montreal Museum of Decorative Arts as well as many others. Pieces have also been seen on the sets of well-known television shows such as Friends, ER, MTV- Real World, and Saturday Night Live. (photo above: Greg Ball and John Christakos)
Interview on MoCo Loco

International “Teenaged Furniture” Competition results posted

Designboom hosted the International “Teenaged Furniture” Competition in spring of 2005 with Australian manufacturer COW by NSR. Among the 3652 entries, the “subsonic” chair designed by: Greg Ball received honorable mention, and a cash prize of 500.00 euros.

Jury:
marcel wanders, designer, NL
sean dix, designer, USA / ITALY
shinobu ito, designer, JAPAN / ITALY
birgit lohmann, (designboom)
nir pizmony (Cow by NSR), AUSTRALIA

Greg Ball – Contributing Editor for MocoLoco

MOCOLOCO is one of my favorite online design magazines. When Harry Wakefield from Montreal contacted me about becoming a contributor of his fabulous resource I was truly excited. Today was my first article for Moco and I look forward to many more. MOCO loco was featured in time magazine as one the 50 coolest websites on the web.
Greg Ball- MocoLoco

Doghaus- Western Living Magazine- May 2005

The Doghaus project was featured in Western Living this month! I spoke with Amanda Ross and she was very excited about my project. It is always quite a thrill to have your work as a full-page image in magazine like Western Living. Many thanks to my talented brother: Grant Ball for prototyping this project.

Quote from the article:
“These clever architectural canine quarters—a sort of West Coast rancher-meets-Alberta grain elevator style—fuse modern form and function for a fetching sleeping alternative. Being in the doghouse was never so desirable”.
Amanda Ross- Western Living