January 19, 2012 – 3:34 am
Toronto’s Art, Culture and Design Events – taking advantage of the scene And continuing on with the good stuff… NOVEL IDEAS @ MARS The Glass Room by Simon Mawer. Image from BIG CITY BIG IDEAS… More info on NEW FORCES IN FRENCH DESIGN… FYI – IDS jams on the New Forces in French Design riff [...]
December 11, 2011 – 12:05 am
C’est moi @ le musée du Louvre To simplify things here is my sum up of all 3 of my posts on “NEW FORCES IN FRENCH DESIGN” with easy-to-get-to links. PT 3: Didier Faustino – French / Portuguese Architect, Designer, Artist & Provocateur Didier’s firm, if one is to speak to the critics of his [...]
December 9, 2011 – 3:38 pm
Didier Fiuza Faustino: Bodies, Restrictions and Moves. Another great lecture! Unfortunately the final one. I am very disappointed this series has come to its end. I learned so much, was engaged by each speaker and would have loved to sit in on many more. Thanks to Ontario College of Art and Design (OCAD U), Claire [...]
November 23, 2011 – 6:59 pm
This is my second post on a great lecture series OCAD is offering in partnership with the Consulate General of France, Institut français and Azure Magazine. As a designer, my head is constantly preoccupied (even in slumber) with finding solutions as to how to make the end user’s experience more enriched. Because I design within virtual [...]
October 12, 2011 – 7:49 pm
Design with Dialogue, September 2011 at OCAD, Toronto. Last month I stumbled across a get together advertised on the ever so helpful Eventbrite. Design with Dialogue is a group that meets the second Wednesday of each month at OCAD. Design with Dialogue (DwD) is a Toronto-based community of practice that develops leadership and facility [...]
October 6, 2011 – 3:59 am
Condo Complex at 25 Ritchie Avenue, Toronto by architect David Anand Peterson. Part of Doors Open 2011. Doors Open is an organization that allows you to be a fly on the wall at some of the most interesting architecture sites in Toronto. During Doors Open 2011 I took my legs out for two days around [...]
September 19, 2011 – 7:30 pm
Cédric Morisset speaking to Dutch Designer, Marcel Wanders, about Marcel’s collaboration with the famed French crystal manufacturer Baccarat. OCAD along with the Consulate General of France is currently presenting a lecture series titled “New Forces in French Design”. The lectures are open to the public and this past Thursday, September 15 the opening guest lecturer [...]