CCM Centenial Bike
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Client: CCM
Date: 1967
4 comments August 29th, 2010
Huronia Pottery Coffee Set
Design: Tom Hrcek
Client: Huronia Pottery
Date: 1970
This is a great set from Huronia Pottery, in its distinctive shape and glaze. Huronia Pottery was based in Meaford, Ontario and was founded by Tom Hrcek, a Czech immigrant who had worked at Blue Mountain Pottery in Collingwood, Ontario, as a mold maker. This glaze is undoubtedly Frankoma inspired. The pottery closed in the 1970?s.
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Expo Ernie Chocolatey Peanut Candies
Design:
Client: Expo 86
Date: 1986
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Creative Review Monograph “Love Stories”
Design: Marian Bantjes
Client: Creative Review
Date: 2008
Developed as an insert for the Creative Review, here are two parts of a series of illustrated texts presenting short stories of important people in the designers life. Experimentation is high and pushes the edges out of how we use type to describe ideas and emotions. Shown are All the boys who loved me back (burned wood) and Cake (cake).
View the entire series via Bantjes site.
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Cree Dictionary iPhone App
Design: Intellimedia Inc.
Client: Miyo Wahkohtowin Education Authority and Heritage Canada
Date: 2010
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There’s Family Fun in Ontario Ad
Design:
Client: Ontario Tourism
Date: 1965
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Vancouverism Installation
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.
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U+ Repurposed Clock
Design:
Client: Umbra
Date: 2009
Following the remix trend, Umbra produces a number of market tests of the repurposed variety (taking found objects and upcycling them into a new use). I am not convinced on the success of this tactic here given that the results are so homely and unappealing, both qualities that consumer goods die from. The connection between the found objects and the function/purpose of the clock seems to have been lost in translation, with the glued on objects adding little to the objects narrative. What story/experience does a cassette tape and stuffed animal join to create? Why, in the world of mass time availability (phones, micowaves, DVD players, etc) do we need another clock? I applaud Umbra for the risk taking and ground breaking though, as good ideas like repurposing are always worth exploring.
3 comments August 27th, 2010
1% Milk Carton
Design: Audrée Lapierre
Client: Concept
Date: 2010
Info graphics galore, this packaging presents nutritional facts like caloric ratio, nutrient balance, ingredients and amount per serving. The designer believes that the “data visualizations say more than a regular nutritional facts label”. The info graphics not only give the consumer a simple way to gauge the value of the product but also become a powerful brand force, demonstrating that the manufacturer cares and wants to support positive choices for the shopper.
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Small Parts Isolated and Destroyed Album Art
Design:
Client: NoMeansNo
Date: 1988
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The Crab
Design: George Norris
Client: H.R. MacMillan Space Centre Planetarium / Vancouver Centennial Museum
Date: 1967
Photo: Chimay Bleue
A lovely, enigmatic stainless steel giant crab provides a dramatic entry point to the Museum of Vancouver (formally known as the H.R. MacMillan Space Centre Planetarium ). It is hard to figure out the actual thinking behind this installation, but the supplied content from the gallery states that the crab is the Squamish people’s mythical harbour protector, giving the work a localized tone and reference.
Via our friends at Ouno Design.
2 comments August 26th, 2010
Cree Embroidered Caribou Moccasins
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Client:
Date: 1857
In the Lake Winnipeg area lived the swampy Cree division of the Western Woods Cree and the Cree Métis. Women originally designed all Cree embroideries and often the design was taken directly from nature and drawn onto the hide with porcupine quills dipped in berry juice.
In the 19th century mission schools run by Ursuline and Grey nuns would teach young Indian girls embroidery skills as part of their general education. Existing European fabrics and tapestries inspired many of the motifs they were taught to embroider.
These slippers are made of soft white caribou hide that has been carefully tanned, then bleached by hanging it outside in late winter when the sun reflected off the snow. 19th century inventories of the Hudson’s Bay trading posts show gradually increasing stocks of silk thread carried for sale to native communities. William Sinclair, a director of the company and of mixed English and Native descent, purchased at the Norway House Trading post ‘two lists of coloured thread, two lists of white stitching thread, and ten skeins of coloured silk thread’ all for his wife.
-The British Antique Dealers’ Association
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