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The Association of Chartered Industrial Designers of Ontario (ACIDO) is pleased to announce the 11th Annual Rocket Show and Competition. This public show features the thesis projects of the Industrial Design graduates from the province’s three schools of Industrial Design: Carleton University, Humber College, and the Ontario College of Art & Design.
The Rocket Show is heavily attended by the professional design community and industry representatives, eager to see what product ideas Ontario’s designers’ of the future have and meet the new design talent coming out of Ontario. Models of designs will be on display for viewing and the students will be in attendance to discuss their projects. All are invited to view the show with products in categories such as: Sustainability, Consumer Products, Transportation, Services / Environments, Medical Products, Toys / Games and Learning, and Sporting.
LOCATION: Toronto City Hall, Member’s Lounge
DATE and TIME:
Saturday May 12th 1-4:30pm & 7pm-10pm (Awards Reception)
Sunday May 13th 11am- 4pm
Eames: The Architect and The Painter at the BLOOR Cinema
83 minutes — PG, Jason Cohn, Bill Jersey, United States, 2011
Narrated by James Franco
“Well-crafted and insightful. A must for those with an interest in modern design.” –Hollywood Reporter
“Superb. A dazzling, sensory adventure. An extraordinary and enjoyable history of how two people influenced so much of our thinking and surroundings today.” – Seattle Times
Design history was born in a cavernous warehouse on a gritty street in Venice Beach, California, where Charles and Ray Eames set up their Renaissance-style studio in the optimistic flush of American victory during World War II. Often referred to as the father and mother of “modernism,” the Eames ideal of design (an alchemical combination of beauty and purpose) is still prevalent today.
Jason Cohn and Bill Jersey’s definitive cinematic foray into the world of the Eameses is the first film to be made about Charles and Ray since their deaths—and the only one that peers deeply inside the link between their artistic collaboration and their sometimes tortured love for one another. Insightfully narrated by James Franco, the film brings to light a virgin cache of archival material, films, love letters, photographs and artifacts produced by Charles and Ray with their talented staff during the hyper-creative forty-year epoch of the Eames Office. Inter views with family members and design historians guide the viewer on an intimate tour of the Eames era, while junior designers who were swept into the 24-7 world of “The Eamery” flesh out a fascinating complex blueprint of this husband and wife powerhouse.
Watch the Trailer HERE
Humber’s 12th annual INSITU chair show took place on Mar. 6 at the Gladstone Hotel on Queen Street West, featuring chairs designed by second-year industrial design students. You can check out a short video here
This coming Tuesday marks the 12th consecutive year that Humber College second year Industrial Design students will be putting their skills on display for the INSITU Chair Show. And they’d like to invite you to come and join us at the event.
The Humber College INSITU Chair show showcases the work of up and coming Canadian design students from Humber’s Industrial Design degree program. The Chair Show is the culmination of an intensive eight weeks of design, planning and execution of full scale working prototype cafe chairs. The chairs are designed specifically to inhabit various Toronto neighborhoods such as the Distillery District and W. Queen West. The second year students worked together in teams to conceptualize, design, and fabricate their chairs. The teams will be competing for a variety of prizes in different categories. A panel of judges comprised of the top working designers from the greater Toronto area will decide which group’s chairs will receive this year’s honors. Over the past 12 years the event has grown considerably and now occupies a significant spot in the GTA’s yearly design calendar. As befitting their continued patronage of local art and design, The Gladstone Hotel is once again graciously hosting this esteemed event.
ACIDO is participating at IDS12 with its Industrial Design Experience exhibit. Our booth allows visitors to try their hand at the most fun and creative part of the design process, the ideation phase. Using an app developed with Primordial Soup, each user will be able to sketch out their product ideas on one of five scenarios. Our goal is to highlight designers’ emphasis on user-centric design. Here are some images of the exhibit in action:
Spread the word! Gary Hustwit will be in person to present his films Helvetica, Objectified and Urbanized – all part of his infamous Design Trilogy – later this week TIFF Bell Lightbox. .
Join us in Vancouver, BC February 24 – 25th, 2012 for ‘Profit By Design’ an exclusive two day product development and innovation conference and workshop. ‘Profit By Design’ promises to deliver unprecedented access as some of North America’s leading ‘Design First’ corporations divulge their business of innovation and reveal methods and practices of signature success.
‘Profit By Design’ is an intimate 200 person event tailored specifically for corporate and organization strategists. Whether initiating product service systems, R&D, business innovation, capital investment (angels & VCs) or government programs promoting Canada’s value added agenda, ‘Profit By Design’ will inspire you with stimulating presentations and provide interactive learning opportunities with some of the best designers, business minds and investment gurus in Canada.
‘Profit By Design’ is organized by the Association of Canadian industrial Designers [ACID] and the Emily Carr University of Art + Design [ECUAD], with support and co-sponsorship from professional associations in Canada.
The Design Exchange is proud to announce the Canadian premiere of Unfinished Spaces with introduction by Co-director Benjamin Murray
January 19, 2012 at the DX
6.30 pm – 8.30 pm
ABOUT
“Cuba will count as having the most beautiful academy of arts in the world.” —Fidel Castro (1961)
Cuba’s ambitious National Art Schools project, designed by three young artists in the wake of Castro’s Revolution, is neglected, nearly forgotten, then ultimately rediscovered as a visionary architectural masterpiece.
In 1961, three young, visionary architects were commissioned by Fidel Castro and Che Guevara to create Cuba’s National Art Schools on the grounds of a former golf course in Havana, Cuba. Construction of their radical designs began immediately and the school’s first classes soon followed. Dancers, musicians and artists from all over the country reveled in the beauty of the schools, but as the dream of the Revolution quickly became a reality, construction was abruptly halted and the architects and their designs were deemed irrelevant in the prevailing political climate. Forty years later the schools are in use, but remain unfinished and decaying. Castro has invited the exiled architects back to finish their unrealized dream.
Unfinished Spaces features intimate footage of Fidel Castro, showing his devotion to creating a worldwide showcase for art, and it also documents the struggle and passion of three revolutionary artists.
FILMMAKER BIOS
Alysa Nahmias, Co-Director, Co-Producer
Alysa Nahmias is founder and executive director of Ajna Films. Unfinished Spaces is her feature directing debut. Her producing credits also include The Listening Archive and Outside the Giardini. She has received numerous grants and awards from government agencies and private foundations, including the New York State Council on the Arts, the Jerome Foundation, and the Graham Foundation. Nahmias holds a Masters degree in architecture (M.Arch) from Princeton University and a B.A. from New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study.
Benjamin Murray, Co-Director, Co-Producer, Director of Photography
Benjamin Murray started his post production company, The Room, in 2010 and currently partners with Technicolor through two Flame Premium suites. His regular clients include major networks and numerous independent production companies. Murray’s recent projects include: No Direction Home, directed by Martin Scorsese; Capitalism: A Love Story, directed by Michael Moore; The Promise: The Making of Darkness on the Edge of Town, directed by Thom Zimny; Client 9, directed by Alex Gibney; Reagan, directed by Eugene Jarecki; Fog of War, directed by Errol Morris; My Architect, directed by Nathaniel Kahn; Born Into Brothels, directed by Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman; and Once In a Lifetime, directed by Paul Crowder. Murray holds a BFA in Film and Television Production from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.
Cambridge Galleries Design at Riverside presents:
5%: AGAINST THE ODDS
CANADIAN WOMEN IN INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
On view until: January 15, 2012
5% presents Canadian designers, Helen Kerr (Toronto); Diane Bisson
(Montreal); Dianne Croteau (Toronto); Rachel Dacks (Savannah); Patty Johnson
(Toronto); Cynthia Hathaway (the Hague); Michelle Ivankovic (Amsterdam).
Curated by: Esther E. Shipman.
Photo: Peter Ross
Cambridge Libraries and Galleries
1 North Square, Cambridge, ON, N1S 2K6