Table Lamp
Design: Court Noxon
Client: Metalsmiths
Date:
Via the excellent Courtnoxon.ca.
Add comment June 8th, 2010
Lighting
This is a Lamp
Design: Tobias Wong
Client: Kartell (sort of)
Date: 2001
Photo: Jacob Sharrard
Converting a Philippe Starck chair into a lamp scared the design world. Not only because the launch was before the debut of the actual Starck chair, pissing off Starck and Kartell, both who claimed that Wongs piece stole some thunder but because it meant that designers could be artists, vice versa. The rules stopped being relevant after this piece and freed design to the one off world of art. As Wong relates “I’m here to challenge the design world, the same way Duchamp did the art world. But I do find the design world extremely confusing as well, although no more confusing than the art world”.
Add comment March 31st, 2010
Club Chair
Design: Martha Sturdy
Client:
Date: 2009
The chair is quite unique, completely made from translucent resin it is available in an illuminated, or unlit versions.
Add comment March 28th, 2010
Le Futur De La Signalétique Urbaine Expérimentée
Design: Intégral
Artistic Directors: Ruedi Baur + Jean Beaudoin, Intégral
In Collaboration With: Bureau des festivals et des événements, City of Montréal
Date: 2010
As part of its Lighting Plan, the Quartier des spectacles is exploring the possibilities of light for creating signage and expressing identity. A recent pilot project experiments with projecting light onto the pavement to mark the urban landscape.
This intervention, realized as part of the Montreal All-Nighter, reinforces the brand image of the cultural heart of the metropolis by bringing together light and graphic design.
The system shows pedestrians the way to major nearby venues, and highlights their presence in the Quartier des spectacles, as they cross at the intersection of Sainte-Catherine and Saint-Denis streets. The preliminary installation, still an experimental prototype, was made up of projectors suspended from towers and synchronized with the existing traffic lights at the intersection. The projections illuminated only the crosswalks, clearly indicating safe pedestrian passages across the street. Its a unique way to show visitors the ebullient cultural activity in the Quartier des spectacles, right on the neighbourhoods main drag of Sainte-Catherine Street.
Projecting light onto the ground has been one of the central elements of the Quartier des spectacles Lighting Plan since its launch in 2006. Light illuminates the sidewalk to provide signage, reinforce identity and create a lively aesthetic outside more than fifteen cultural venues. The double line of dots is the neighbourhoods common signature, rolling out a playful and dynamic red carpet for visitors and indicating the presence of a cultural venue at the pedestrian scale.
Add comment March 15th, 2010
Pressed Pattern Pendant Lamps
Design: Jennifer Graham
Manufacture: Self Manufacture- Stratford, ON
Date: 2006
Add comment January 13th, 2010
Tank Lighting
Design: Brian Richer and Kei Ng
Client: Castor Design
Date: 2010
Reclaimed fire extinguishers are cut to varying lengths, and wet painted to create these striking pendant lights. The variation of proportions and colour produce a tremendous range of designs without complicating production. Green and beautiful.
Add comment January 8th, 2010
Flashlight Pendant Lamps
Design: Andrea Chin
Client: Imm Living
Date: 2009
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Deanne Lehtinen Lighting
Design: Deanne Lehtinen
Client: Gladstone Hotel
Date: 2007
Add comment December 24th, 2009
Chandelier
Design: Hani Rashid
Client: Atmospherics Exhibition
Date: 2008
Add comment December 19th, 2009
“Benefit of the Doubt” Installation
Design: Barr Gilmore
Client: Nuit Blanche
Date: 2008
Photo: Gbalogh
Pulled from the iconic signage of Honest Ed’s on Bloor, this light sculpture will act as an object of both contemplation and spectacle. It will speak to everyone’s behavioral aspirations, but will also pay homage to the benevolent and honest Ed Mirvish, who died last year at the age of 92. Shown are the concept drawing, and the actual work lit up on the evening of Nuit Blanche.
Add comment December 14th, 2009
