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Design Traveller – the online game

LB — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 21:44:41 +0000

The Virtual Museum of Canada has released on online game called Design Traveller. It’s a little on the blocky side, perhaps, but Canadian design nerds might like it.

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Okay, look, iTunes and Stella Artois, you can’t just rip off the CBC logo.

LB — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 22:17:53 +0000

Dear Stella Artois and iTunes,
There are 30-plus million of us Canadians. Did you think there was a chance that none of us would notice your commercial appropriation of one of our most popular non-commercial national symbols?

April Tidey

LB — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 01:34:00 +0000

This tiny sample of photos is from the new website of Vancouver interior designer April Tidey. They include shots of her own amazing loft in Gastown, one of Vancouver’s oldest neighbourhoods.

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Nanopod in nanotopia

LB — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 06:43:58 +0000

I have one of these white heart pendant necklaces, and easily a hundred people have asked me about it. It’s by Toronto jeweller Tosca Teran, whose studio is alternately known as Nanotopia and Nanopod.

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Man discovers darning by accident.

LB — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 07:00:19 +0000

This blog post by Mr. Skona wins this week’s prize for ingenuity and charm.

My lovely wool socks (please excuse the pills) were starting to get a little threadbare around the heels and the ball of the foot.

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Musical bench.

LB — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 03:24:43 +0000

Great execution of a great idea in this public xylophone bench by designer Paul Aloisi for the BenchMark Project in Toronto, Canada. From the Canadian Design Resource. There would be pressure to stand up whenever anyone else came by.

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The inexplicable fashion flair of Don Cherry

LB — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 23:45:05 +0000

“You told me to wear pink! That tie is lavender!” Don Cherry, the most daring dresser in Canadian television, probably, let alone in hockey, wore pink last Saturday in support of a cure for breast cancer.

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Canadian Coconut chair, the election, and Margaret Atwood

LB — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 20:43:00 +0000

“Electoral reform.” That’s our comment on yesterday’s Canadian federal election. On this dark day in Canadian politics, when a majority of Canadians couldn’t put a stop to the tyranny of a minority, here’s a nice photo of a famous piece of Canadian design.

Our friends Propellor on the Canadian Design Resource

LB — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 06:35:00 +0000

Check out the Canadian Design Resource, an excellent and informative compendium of Canadian Design. The CDR recently featured our friends Propellor Design’s Galiano lamp, at left.

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“I am not embarrassed, I am only fabulously sinking.”

LB — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 21:25:00 +0000

It is very odd to find yourself being used to illustrate some oblique purpose. My fur lifejacket, made as a sort of surrealist conversation piece from a real vintage lifejacket and a discarded mink jacket found in thrift, ended up here:

Fur for LACMA: “Following up on the announcement from the New York Times that the LA County Museum of Art isn’t getting Eli Broad’s collection, may I suggest this fur life jacket to be distributed to the museum committee.