Toronto Craft Alert

This post will be a little long, but gosh does Motherbrand has some fun stuff going on this month and I want to make sure you don’t miss out!  Really makes me wish there was 4 of me this weekend, with all of the Toronto International Design Festival events on the roster…

Info below via the Design Exchange.

Motherbrand Events and Exhibits
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Motherbrand and Harbourfront Centre present the Innovators + Ideas Lectures series featuring TOBIAS WONG and CYNTHIA HATHAWAY
Saturday, January 23, 2010
1:00 – 4:00 p.m.

$10/$7 (stu/sen)

Harbourfront Centre, Brigantine Room, 235 Queens Quay West, Toronto

http://harbourfrontcentre.com/learn/craftdepartment/innovators.cfm

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Cut/Copy/Paste: Creative Reuse in Canadian Design

January 20th to 31st

Institute for Contemporary Culture, Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park, Toronto

Creative agency Motherbrand explores the idea of creative reuse, recycling and upscaling in Canadian design. Reaching back to indigenous design and the improvised solutions of early pioneers, to more recent work from Tobias Wong, Douglas Coupland and more, this form of pragmatic redesign is behind some of Canada’s most iconic designs. Come to the majestic ICC space to see highlights of more than 100 years of this creative process at work.

To see more, visit www.motherbrand.com and www.rom.on.ca/icc/.

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Cut/Copy/Paste: The Fine Tradition of Copying in Canadian Ceramics

January 8 – February 5

Gardiner Museum Lobby, 111 Queen’s Park, Toronto

Free

Ceramic artists have borrowed forms and designs from each other and from other media for thousands of years. This mini-exhibition reveals how Canadian ceramic art has been expanded and enriched over the past century by the appropriation of formal and design elements from sources as diverse as Ukrainian textiles and First Nations ceremonial art. The exhibition is organized by the Toronto design firm Motherbrand in conjunction with the Gardiner Museum.

http://www.gardinermuseum.on.ca/

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Motherbrand presents an afternoon with Cynthia Hathaway

“Design and Ceramics in the Netherlands” lecture

January 24th at 4:00pm

Gardiner Museum Auditorium, 111 Queen’s Park, Toronto

Free

Motherbrand is sponsoring a lecture at the Gardiner Museum by Cynthia Hathaway (Droog Design), a Canadian designer based in Amsterdam, who often uses the strategies of copying and sampling in her work. She will present an example of how design has resurrected ceramics in Holland.

http://www.gardinermuseum.on.ca/

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This Years Colour 2010 by Todd Falkowsky

January 18th – January 25th

InAbstracto, 1160 Queen Street West, Toronto

Free

Colour trends affect us on all levels. Trendy hues of the moment inspire how we decorate our lives, and influence every purchase we make. Designer and Colour Researcher Todd Falkowsky has analyzed and synthesized current affairs, fashion, nature, and pop culture to create a colour for 2010. Designed as an annual suggestion, This Year’s Colour represents hope, hardiness, resilience, and reflects where we are going. Come check out the project at InAbstracto on Queen Street West.

For more information on This Years Colour 2010, visit the Motherbrand.com.
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Lotte Lamp Gallery: Vintage lighting collection

January 18th – January 25th

InAbstracto, 1160 Queen Street West, Toronto

Free

InAbstracto is proud to present an extensive collection of the influential ceramic lamps created by Lotte Bostlund in the late 1960’s and 1970’s. A major contribution to the Canadian modernist movement, these collectable lamps are true design classics. Drop by for a peek.

Both exhibitions are associated with the Toronto International Design Festival, which will take place from January 21 to 24, 2010.