Design: Thilo Folkerts and Rodney Latourelle
Client: International Festival des Jardins de Metis
Date: 2011
This sculpture/architectural installation was designed for the International Festival des Jardins de Metis (Quebec), and features 40,000 used books.
Add comment June 21st, 2011
Design: Burton Kramer (Paul Arthur & Associates Ltd)
Client: Expo 67
Date: 1966
The task of designing the complete way-finding signage system for Expo 67 in Montreal was entrusted by the Canadian Corporation for the 1967 World Exhibition to Paul Arthur & Associates Ltd. It was the first time that an entire graphic programme of official and commercial signage on such an immense scale – for the equivalent of a thousand-acre city – had ever been planned in advance as a modular system and integrated into a master planning concept.
Pictograms of animals in black silhouette were used to identify the various areas of the two mammoth parking lots, each of which accommodated about 12,000 cars.
- Burton Kramer
Add comment May 10th, 2011
Design: Bookmobile Collective
Client:
Date: 2005 (launched in 2000)
Building up from the rich tradition of bookmobiles and traveling libraries, this project brings small run books, like handmade and one-of-a-kind pieces, zines, and other independent publications to the public. Playing with the idea of distribution, the annual exhibit is run by a membership of artists who select and create content for multiple mobile presentations. The artist collective also organizes workshops and participates in educational activities on a community level during these tours.
Via our friends at Artexte.
Add comment May 1st, 2011
Design:
Client: Vancouver Art Gallery
Date: 2011
The street advertising for the VAG’s exhibit for We Vancouver, a show that brought 12 creatives together to discuss the issues of the city and to elevate design thinking as a possible solution/opportunity. The revolution styled graphics remind me of Herbert Bayers work, a fitting style template for the promotion of a new way of thinking (Bayers did graphic design for the Bauhaus, who worked to create a new direction for design in the age of the machine).
1 comment March 30th, 2011
Design: Miguel Molina,
Client:
Date: 2010
Via our friends at The Design Edge
Add comment March 10th, 2011
Design: Soaz
Client: City of Montréal – Office of Cultural Affairs
Date: 2007
Photo: www.soaz.ca
Add comment March 1st, 2011
Design: Brian Banton
Client: Toronto Digital City Labs
Date: 2009
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Design: ClodZine
Client:
Date: 2010
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Design: Douglas Ball
Client: Sunar
Date: 1978
Introduction at Neocon of this influential office system (when cubicles were seen as a desirable solution to modern office design). Love the secretary cut outs!
Add comment December 12th, 2010
Design: Joy Charbonneau
Client: Paul Petro Special Projects Space
Date: 2010
Photos: Drew Ralph
Local designers team up to explore the formal properties of cast metal in design. The result is nine new cast objects that include conceptual explorations, domestic products, and furniture.
Works by Joy Charbonneau, Chromoly, Dieter Janssen, Luflic, Mat Cult, Derek McLeod, Crawford Noble, Rob Southcott, and Ed Zec.
Add comment December 11th, 2010
Design: William Kissiloff
Client: Canadian Pulp and Paper
Date: 1967
1 comment November 23rd, 2010
Design:
Client:
Date: 1982
Part of the Walt Disney World Resort, the Canadian Pavillion features all the national symbols in full effect, it is is a fountain of Canadiana. Originally conceived as a partnership between the Walt Disney corporation and the Canadian government. “The company wanted the Federal government to fund the cost of building the attraction, in return the government would have input into the design and layout. The Canadian government was concerned about the stereotype of Canada that Disney wanted (i.e., lumberjacks). Funding was refused, and Disney threatened to pull the exhibit”…but did not, using the pavillion as a stage for their Pocahontas and Brother Bear characters.
References: Epcot Center’s O Canada! film gets an update
Add comment November 3rd, 2010
Design: Cause + Affect
Client:
Date: 2010
This small installation in the W building in Vancouver was created to explain some of the architectural projects that were happening in the city during the Olympics.
Add comment August 27th, 2010
