Designer John Greg Ball -Weblog

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.

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

Shoko and I have updated the HooDoos site with our media release and an introduction on our newest lighting project: The Tornado Lamp. Tornado will be shown at IDEA’s FROST Exhibit in Edmonton 2006. -Enjoy

In the spring of 2005, Shoko Cesar and I launched “The HooDoo” series. As designers, we have been discussing the idea that within the current global consumer landscape, available products have virtually no meaning, nor connection to where they come from.

“Hoodoo products offer elements of the Alberta Prairies to the global design landscape. By adding meaning to each product, Hoodoo items are intended to be timeless, well-designed objects for the contemporary home” (shown above: HooDoo Lamp- designed by Greg Ball + Shoko Cesar)

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