Category: design
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Lessons from My Internship at designboom
How I Learned to Write and Edit Fast at designboom – From Intern to Editor: A Leap of Faith
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Helsinki Travel Guide 2023 (Design & Architecture)
his is the ultimate guide for art, design and architecture lovers who are visiting the Finnish Capital.
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How to live comfortably in 450 square feet
StudioHand is a design-fabricator located in the Junction, Toronto that opened his doors to showcase how to live in a small space that was thoughtfully designed.
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Is Design Thinking Dead?
I discovered NCommon a Self-awareness for Design podcast. It is so up my alley. The podcasters Jacqui Frey and Alison Rand were tired of the same talks from the same people about Design. One episode that got me thinking was their last episode of the season titled “Hella Justice”. In the episode, Jacqui and Alison…
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DesignTO 2022: Slanted/Enchanted at Erin Stump Projects Gallery
A group exhibition – Slanted/Enchanted at Erin Stump Projects Gallery for DesignTO
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DesignTO 2022: Libations for Liberated Living at Plumb Gallery
My review of DesignTO 2022 exhibition Libations for Liberated Living at Plumb Gallery Toronto
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DesignTO 2022: Must-See Exhibitions
This year I decided to do check out the North end of the city for DesignTO. This year I really wanted to experience in-person exhibitions. I’ve done the window display thing, and in this cold weather, I prefer to be inside, taking my time, then outside rushing. Here is my list of sites to see…
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5 Tips for Tackling DesignTO 2022
DesignTO 2022 and these are my top 5 tips to tackling the festival this year.
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Top 10 Biennales and Triennales to visit in 2022
With the world opening up again, it’s time to travel to visit some of the top art and architecture biennales and triennales. Here are my top 10 to visit this year in 2022.
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Top 5 Biennales to visit the summer
Here are the top 5 architecture, design and art events to visit this summer
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Urban Sun by Studio Roosegaarde – Cleans public spaces of the coronavirus
Studio Rossegaarde develops Urban Sun, a light that safely cleans up to 99.9% of the coronavirus.
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Interview with Deborah Wang, Artistic Director of DesignTO
‘Exchange Piece’ explores collaboration as an act of care through an exchange between 10 early career and senior artists and designers working in pairs to explore how care in the creative process affects the way we relate and position ourselves to what we create.
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The Aalto House – Helsinki, Finland
Munkkiniemi, Helsinki, Finalnd The exterior If you are ever in Helsinki and love modern design you must visit Alvar Aalto’s Studio and House. They are very close to each other and the Aalto Foundation has planned the tours in such that visitors can do one tour, at one site and then go to the other…
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Interview with Christine Elson – elsonstudio: Conflated Views, DesignTO
Interview with architect Christine Elson about her latest online exhibition Conflated Views for DesignTO
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My Helsinki Design & Architecture Travel Guide: Top Ten Must-See Places
My top ten places to visit in Helsinki
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The Master – Mackintosh
I remember, way back in first year interior design, I was sitting in our art history class and our TA who was Scottish had a very thick accent. In one of his lectures he was talking about Glasgow quite a bit. One reason was because he was from there, and loved to talk about his…
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Guinness Storehouse Tour
One of the must-see things to do when you are in Dublin is visiting the Guinness Museum. It was one of the best museum experiences I have ever done. Unlike most traditional museums which present a collection of artifacts, the Storehouse takes you through the brewing process of how this famous beer is made. The…
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V&A Dundee by Kengo Kuma
When I was thinking of traveling to Scotland, Edinburgh and Glasgow were at the top of my list. But when I heard of the opening of a new V&A museum in Dundee, designed by Kengo Kuma really solidified my decision to go there. It’s quite a distance from Edinburgh, a couple of hours at least. On…
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Riverside Museum by Zaha Hadid Architects
Last year I had the opportunity to travel to Scotland. I took a day and traveled to Glasgow where you can find some of the biggest hitters in architecture all within a kilometer of each other. The Clyde Auditorium (Armadillo) and SSE Hyrdo both designed by Foster and Partners, are right next to one of…
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Highlights from CUTMR 2019
The 16th installment of Come Up To My Room (#CUTMR) is an alternative design exhibition that provides a platform for experimentation outside the norms of art and design, at the edges between intention and interpretation. Freed from the constraints of traditional practice, CUTMR encourages spatial exploration that engages our senses, our memories and our perceptions of…
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IDS has a new vision shifting its focus from consumers to professionals
“We are brokers of dialogue,” Director of Conference Programming, Ian Chodikoff mentions as he explains the shift in IDS’ (Interior Design Show 2019) current vision. The expanded programming of “bringing people together to experience the power of design” speaks to the new opportunities the show is trying to foster among the industry.
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Fun House by Snarkitecture is more like a Mad House
Sharing an Uber is always interesting when you tell them where you are going and they call the site a ‘parking lot.’ This is what I experienced on my last trip to Washington, DC. On a recent trip to Washington, DC, I had the opportunity to visit the National Building Museum to see Snarkitecture’s Fun…
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The Serpentine Pavilion: Unzipped by Bjarke Ingels
Unzipped comes to Toronto, the Serpentine Pavilion by BIG Architects
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What do you do?
What do you do? I hate this questions because what I do is not cut and dry. And how, me, personality fits into my work is layered upon layers.
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London Design Biennale creative campaign
For the second consecutive edition of London Design Biennale, the Domenic Lippa team at Pentagram has created the visual identity and promotional materials. As with the previous identity, a restricted colour palette of orange, black and white is used.
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The BIG little house
Have you ever wanted to know what it was like to live in a home designed by a starchitect? Well, this is your chance to live in a tiny home designed by world-renowned architect Bjarke Ingles of BIG.
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Hello Kitty Train
Why do places like Japan think of inventive ways of taking the mundane task of commuting to a whole another level? Hello Kitty is getting their own themed bullet train which will take to the tracks on June 30th.
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Speculating the Future of Food
In a recent Monocle Minute newsletter, they featured California-based chef James Corwell who has created Ahimi, a tuna alternative made from tomato, soy sauce, sugar, water and sesame oil. This is coming after the stark realization that within the next 30 years, because of overfishing there may no longer be any fish in the sea. Which means…
Richelle Sibolboro 