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Textured Bull in China Shop wallpaper designed by John Greg Ball.

Much like the X-crib, this design is inspired by the man-made boundaries that restrain us all in life- the West bound table has a little fun with the barbed wire motif adding some new interesting places to put your “barley pop”.

Growing up the son of the 25-year Calgary Stampede rodeo announcer- Lorne Ball, I have been surrounded by Western rodeo world for a good part of my life. As a native southern Albertan, my work as an artist and designer has fueled a passion to understand the historic visual culture that constructs our Canadian West. having a little fun with all of this is the new cowboy contemporary series. All available for sale, this new line of work will be shown alongside 10 designers and firms currently working here in the West. Visit my booth as part of the westxprssd feature at this year’s:

+Calgary Home + Interior Design show

+Vancouver Home + Interior Design show

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Images of the 12-foot ceiling hoodoo lamp installation in Calgary’s Kensington district designed by: Edmonton-based Shoko Cesar and Calgary designer John Greg Ball. More images after the official opening…

John Greg Ball and Shoko Cesar’s violent art collaboration using a 12-gauge shotgun, and prefabricated signage to create wall art. (image from Calgary’s arthouse opening of MADE in the WEST)

From the Radiant Dark exhibit in Toronto. (Stools designed by John Greg Ball and Shoko Cesar)

See the new installation of the Hoodoo Series- Part 2 “The Shotgun Approach” at MADE design in Toronto.

Exhibit runs: from February 07- March 22, 2008.

Opening reception: Friday, February 22nd 2008.

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Greg Ball taking his first “shot” at the new Hoodoo series project.

Shoko Cesar experimenting with the 12-guage aesthetic tool- on a fresh can of colored paint.

Image of the selected target experiments (all being shown at MADE). Other work being show at our installation includes a new light called: “buckshot”.

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.

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