At the IDC's annual general meeting, Vancouver designer David Hanson accepts his nomination as president.

The once and future IDC

The Interior Designers of Canada (IDC) has announced a restructuring of its organization that will strengthen its role as the voice of interior design. The announcement was made at the Association's Annual General Meeting held April 23 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The meeting was attended by more than 40 representatives from across Canada who came…

April 27, 2010

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II BY IV X 2 (March 16, 2010)

International award–winning Toronto firm II BY IV Design Associates was honoured with two awards from the A.R.E, Association of Retail Environments. The ARE Awards is the premier industry competition honouring innovation and excellence in design, originality in the use of space and materials, quality in executing the total concept, and in some cases, the highest…

March 16, 2010

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ARIDO honours (March 12, 2010)

The Association of Registered Interior Designers of Ontario (ARIDO) announced three Honorary members and one Fellow at its Annual General Meeting, held on March 11 in Toronto. Honorary and Fellow Memberships are the highest honours ARIDO can bestow on an individual and are reserved for those who have truly excelled in their contributions to the…

March 12, 2010

Cardinal Hardy/Labonte Marcil/Eric Pelletier Architectes en consortium/SDK et associes inc./Leroux Beaudoin Hurens et associes inc. wins the architectural competition.

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Saint-Laurent’s new library

The Minister of Culture, Communications and the Status of Women, Christine St-Pierre, the Mayor of Montréal, Gérald Tremblay, and the Mayor of Saint-Laurent and Vice-Chair of the City of Montréal Executive Committee, Alan DeSousa, have announced the winner of the Quebec-wide architectural competition for Saint-Laurent’s new library. Also present at the announcement were Helen Fotopulos,…

February 2, 2010

The LifeStraw is part of Cooper-Hewitt's Design for the Other 90% exhibition. This mobile personal water purification tool was designed by Torben Vestergaard Frandsen.

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Cooper-Hewitt’s 90% plus

New York's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, has received a $600,000 grant from the Rockefeller Foundation to develop its groundbreaking 2007 Design for the Other 90% exhibition into an ongoing series. This series will continue to focus on design solutions that address 90 per cent of the world’s population not traditionally serviced by the professional design…

January 4, 2010

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Leading Design Firms Join Forces

Long-established Vancouver-based architecture and urban design firm Hotson Bakker Boniface Haden Architects (HBBH) will join forces with long-established multi-disciplinary design firm Cohos Evamy integratedesignT on January 28, 2010, in a merger that will have impact at a national level. The vision behind the amalgamation of these two firms is to build a national,…

November 24, 2009

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George Brown on the waterfront

George Brown College is ready to break ground on a dynamic new home on Toronto's waterfront. All the elements are now in place to aggressively move forward with excavation of the site, slated to begin in late October. EllisDon, a Canadian-owned construction engineering and project management firm, joins the wider team of architects…

September 21, 2009

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Millennium Excellence Award awarded to Kwantlen student of interior design

Kwantlen Polytechnic University interior design student Lucas Nightingale has been awarded the Millennium Excellence Award, a scholarship valued at $10,250 from the Canada Millennium Scholarship Foundation. Nightingale was presented the award for his inspiring leadership, academic excellence and outstanding contribution in the community. “I feel incredibly honoured to be counted among the other worthy award…

September 7, 2009

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Cameron Porteus’s stagecraft

The Design Exchange is proud to announce Risking the Void: The Designs of Cameron Porteus. This exhibition celebrates the career of one of Canada’s most important sceneographers. Porteus combined an international perspective with a commitment to developing a unique style of Canadian theatrical design during a significant period in the evolution of Canadian theatrical history.…

August 26, 2009

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IDS and Weavers Art – call for entries

Weavers Art and the Interior Design Show are calling interior designers, industrial and graphic designers, architects, and artists for rug design submissions to be considered for the Weavers Art new ERA collection. Twelve designs will be selected by a jury and produced as limited edition hand-woven rugs available through Weavers Art exclusively. These designs will be…

July 31, 2009