Category: Design

Quick Hits: Wild Things

Wild Things (March 25-29) is a collection of domestic objects designed in the spirit of experimentation and imagination, using visuals borrows from the natural world. Vanessa Lee Jackson is a designer pursuing her MDes at OCAD University.

Flags we might have had

On this day in 1965, Canada’s red and white flag rose for the first time on Parliament Hill.  Artists, designers and the public submitted thousands of designs, including this rough hand-drawn suggestion by Group of Seven artist A.Y. Jackson.

The Getty acquires Frank Gehry archive

Thirty years of papers, models, sketches and other material from the work files of world-renowned architect Frank Gehry have been acquired by The Getty Research Institute, part purchase and part gift. If you live in Toronto, you’ve seen the Canadian-born, LA-based architect’s work, notably in his renovation of […]

Design GIFs: Drink your juice

What is there to say about this crazy creative concept by Armenian design studio Backbone Branding except bravo. It shows how far GIFs have come since they were largely confined to tumblr and were mostly about cats. Here are a few of the GIFs that have made these […]