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Like you, there are many aspects of 2016 that I would rather forget, and also a lot of fallout I am not looking forward to dealing with (you probably know what I’m referring to). But at the same time, there was a lot…
Editor's Corner
We tend to spend our happiest moments around a table. It is the focal point for cozy gatherings and intimate conversations among family and friends. Dreams are expressed, plans debated, secrets revealed. And this happens at tables both in our homes and out at restaurants and bars. Without doubt food has become a major focal…
On Dec. 26, 2004, I sent my first email to Architects Without Borders (AWB). The tsunami had just taken the lives of more than 225,000 people in 13 countries and left over four million displaced. The coastline of Sri Lanka, home to personal friends and former co-workers, was one of the areas hardest hit. This…
Fourteen years ago, a very small company, Crailer Communications, took over two magazines from a very large publishing company. The magazines, Canadian Interiors and Building, were both suffering severely the effects of the early 1990s recession that had hit Canada's construction and development industry and their prognosis was not good. Crailer was my company and…
A Short History of the Blue Jean: Patented in 1873 by San Francisco-based importer Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis, a tailor from Reno, Nev..... After visiting the western mining fields during his extensive 1882 tour of America, Oscar Wilde declares denims to be the trousers of tomorrow.... The zipper, invented by Canadian Herbert Dow, first…
Just as it is said that you can learn a lot about a city by the postcards it produces, the same is true for trade fairs and their posters. They serve as a window into the organizer's visions of and for the fair itself. The trick - and fun - is in deciphering which messages…
The Canada Council for the Arts has awarded the eight winners of the 2007 Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts. Ian Carr-Harris, Aganetha Dyck, R. Bruce Elder, Murray Favro, Fernand Leduc and Daphne Odjig received awards for artistic achievement; ceramist Paul Mathieu received the Saidye Bronfman Award for excellence in the fine crafts,…