Do Pattern | Toronto Pattern Offsite Festival
Friday, 13 January 2017
Edit
 |
| Wood Trays yesteryear Bookhou |
Last calendar week nosotros mentioned nosotros had a few novel weblog serial planned for 2017 as well as today 1 of them begins. With Canada celebrating 150 years this year, nosotros are planning to do our component subdivision hither on the weblog yesteryear celebrating Canadian design, featuring Canadian artists, designers as well as architects all twelvemonth long. And what amend way to boot things off than amongst the Toronto Design Offsite Festival starting side yesteryear side week, (January 16 to Jan 22, 2017). First off, Do Design.
Do Design
Do Design (January xix to Jan 22/17) is a costless exhibit showcasing pattern inward the vibrant neighborhood at various storefronts on Dundas Street West (Bathurst to Grace). The exhibit is offering upwardly an amazing array of activities as well as exhibits. Over the iv days ,visitors are invited to sense the street every bit an all-hours gallery as well as accept the chance to explore pattern inward multiple ways.
For 2017 Do Design volition travel featuring a particular collaboration amongst StopGap Foundation. This street broad presentation introduces several new, deployable ramps to businesses inward the area, an interactive ramp projection amongst videos as well as images, raising awareness nigh barriers inward the built environment.
The combined exhibit as well as programming highlight various forms of pattern from finely crafted objects to projects of social excogitation as well as are intended to spark conversation nigh pattern every bit a agency of creating involvement, community, variety as well as connection. Do Design offers unique perspectives, talents as well as capabilities as well as points the way to an inclusive culture. The Do Design programme is listed at the bottom of this post. Firstly, a mini preview of roughly of the participating designers/studios.
23 Participating Designers/Studios inward 26 Venues:
Nate Asis / Azizing Design / Bookhou / Cambium Design / Emma Chorestecki / Kyle Garland / gogo+martin / Handwork Studio / I Love Crow / Jacob Riches / The Laneway Project / Justine Latour / Yorgo Liapis / Erin MacKeen / MiCO / Jacob Riches / Cindy Rendely Architexture / Oasis Skateboard Factory / Lois Schklar / StopGap Foundation / Studio Vine Glass / Guillermo Trejo
YORGO LIAPIS | #HASHTAG GALLERY
830 DUNDAS ST. W.Maize Pendant Walnut
Yorgo Liapis is a visual creative soul as well as woodworker. His article of furniture is inspired yesteryear the beauty as well as efficiency of patterns flora inward nature, the expressions of pregnant as well as “sacredness” inward human cultures, also every bit the symbiotic human relationship betwixt creative soul as well as material. His objective is to pop off increasingly attuned to his intuition then that through his art, he mightiness limited roughly truth nigh the human experience.
Maize Pendant is inspired yesteryear nutrient systems inward Mexico. It resembles corn husks, as well as is a celebration of the beautiful as well as cultural significance of corn crops.
GUILLERMO TREJO | DUNDAS EUCLID ANIMAL HOSPITAL
840 DUNDAS ST. W.
Deconstructed Chair Wood pallet, spray paint
Guillermo Trejo is a Mexican Artist based inward Ottawa. He completed his BFA at the National School of Painting, Sculpture as well as Etching inward United Mexican United States City amongst a specialization inward printmaking, as well as moved to Canada inward 2007. The sense of immigration as well as distance has shaped Trejo’s work. Since moving to Ottawa, he has earned an MFA from University of Ottawa as well as has been an active fellow member of the artistic community. He has exhibited at the Ottawa Art Gallery, Saw Gallery as well as other artist-run centres across the country.
Deconstructed Chair is projection that presents Guillermo's "Model #2 Chair" earlier its 13 pieces are cutting as well as assembled. In its abstracted form, the simplicity of the chair's pattern becomes apparent. This stencil used to define the components of the chair tin travel easily transported as well as railroad train inward whatever criterion pallet. This way the chair tin travel recreated easily anywhere.
Deconstructed Chair Wood pallet, spray paint
Guillermo Trejo is a Mexican Artist based inward Ottawa. He completed his BFA at the National School of Painting, Sculpture as well as Etching inward United Mexican United States City amongst a specialization inward printmaking, as well as moved to Canada inward 2007. The sense of immigration as well as distance has shaped Trejo’s work. Since moving to Ottawa, he has earned an MFA from University of Ottawa as well as has been an active fellow member of the artistic community. He has exhibited at the Ottawa Art Gallery, Saw Gallery as well as other artist-run centres across the country.
Deconstructed Chair is projection that presents Guillermo's "Model #2 Chair" earlier its 13 pieces are cutting as well as assembled. In its abstracted form, the simplicity of the chair's pattern becomes apparent. This stencil used to define the components of the chair tin travel easily transported as well as railroad train inward whatever criterion pallet. This way the chair tin travel recreated easily anywhere.
HANDWORK STUDIO | COMRAGS
812 DUNDAS ST. W.
Urban Cube Seating Series Khaddar-Woven Cotton as well as Hand Block Printing amongst Printed Reflective Tape
Handwork Studio is an initiatory of ii experienced Canadian designers, Munira Amin as well as Rachel MacHenry. With ongoing connections inward Pakistan, Nepal, India, Republic of Haiti as well as Peru, the studio provides contemporary pattern services for artisan-based production. Through a network of specialized arts and crafts as well as technical associates, the studio offers pattern consultation to a variety of artisan focused enterprises including authorities ministries as well as merchandise facilitation offices, import as well as pattern companies, artisan organizations as well as international evolution institutions. Handwork Studio is committed to pattern excogitation through socially as well as environmentally sustainable methods.
I LOVE CROW | VILLAGE PIZZA
761 DUNDAS ST. W.
Copper Birds Copper, wire
CROW is an energetic fine art as well as pattern studio based inward Toronto Canada. Established inward 2010, CROW provides custom art/design services as well as solutions to interior designers, fine art consultants as well as architects. As projects pop off increasingly complex, CROW combines pattern skills amongst fine art production expertise to offering innovative techniques as well as materials to do unique visual experiences.
bookhou was co-founded yesteryear John Booth as well as Arounna Khounnoraj inward 2002 to showcase their private as well as collaborative work. They are a multidisciplinary studio that emphasizes natural handmade materials as well as small-scale production pieces.
John Booth received his pedagogy from Queens University as well as his architecture grade from the University of Toronto. He is currently working amongst shape as well as construction inward both icon as well as furniture. Arounna Khounnoraj received her pedagogy from the Ontario College of Art, Nova Scotia College of Art as well as Design as well as a MFA from the University of Waterloo. She is currently exploring pattern as well as epitome inward her textiles as well as sculptures. In the autumn of 2008 they opened their brick as well as mortar store located on Dundas Street West inward Toronto.
Copper Birds Copper, wire
CROW is an energetic fine art as well as pattern studio based inward Toronto Canada. Established inward 2010, CROW provides custom art/design services as well as solutions to interior designers, fine art consultants as well as architects. As projects pop off increasingly complex, CROW combines pattern skills amongst fine art production expertise to offering innovative techniques as well as materials to do unique visual experiences.
BOOKHOU
798 DUNDAS ST. W.
Wood Trays bookhou was co-founded yesteryear John Booth as well as Arounna Khounnoraj inward 2002 to showcase their private as well as collaborative work. They are a multidisciplinary studio that emphasizes natural handmade materials as well as small-scale production pieces.
John Booth received his pedagogy from Queens University as well as his architecture grade from the University of Toronto. He is currently working amongst shape as well as construction inward both icon as well as furniture. Arounna Khounnoraj received her pedagogy from the Ontario College of Art, Nova Scotia College of Art as well as Design as well as a MFA from the University of Waterloo. She is currently exploring pattern as well as epitome inward her textiles as well as sculptures. In the autumn of 2008 they opened their brick as well as mortar store located on Dundas Street West inward Toronto.
OASIS SKATEBOARD FACTORY | SOVEREIGN STATE
827 DUNDAS ST. W.
Oasis Skateboard Factory (OSF), founded yesteryear instructor Craig Morrison, has attracted considerable media exposure as well as received a Ken Spencer Award from the CEA for its innovative program. OSF is 1 of iii programs offered yesteryear Oasis Alternative Secondary School, 1 of 22 option secondary schools of the Toronto District School Board (TDSB). Students design, build as well as marketplace skateboards, along amongst paraphernalia for the skateboard culture, as well as earn academic credit. Nearly all OSF students graduate from high school.
Be certain to grab founder Craig Morrison speak at Do Design(er) Talks on Saturday, Jan 21st @ 2pm.
Oasis Skateboard Factory (OSF), founded yesteryear instructor Craig Morrison, has attracted considerable media exposure as well as received a Ken Spencer Award from the CEA for its innovative program. OSF is 1 of iii programs offered yesteryear Oasis Alternative Secondary School, 1 of 22 option secondary schools of the Toronto District School Board (TDSB). Students design, build as well as marketplace skateboards, along amongst paraphernalia for the skateboard culture, as well as earn academic credit. Nearly all OSF students graduate from high school.
Be certain to grab founder Craig Morrison speak at Do Design(er) Talks on Saturday, Jan 21st @ 2pm.
