Toronto Craft Alert

A few of my favourite Toronto designers are in this show spotlighting the work of lady designers in Canada. This is part of Toronto Design Week which is in full swing – with shows including Come Up to My Room, Losing Parkdale at the OCC and DO Design on Dundas West. Visit this handy Toronto Design Offisite (TO DO) website for the lowdown on various Design Week events!

“CAPACITY” is an exhibit of new work by female, Canadian designers, curated by [...]

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The Love Lettering Project by Lindsay Zier-Vogel @ Annette Library

This is one busy weekend for arts and culture in Toronto with both Nuit Blanche AND Culture Days going down. For those looking to roll up their sleeves and make stuff (sometimes the best way to fight that feeling of overwhelm that this time of year can bring), [...]

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Toronto Design Week (which emerged in response to the Interior Design Show) is always filled with inspiring shows and events, and MADE on Dundas West has been one of the driving forces in bringing conceptual design to the public during this period. They have teamed up with fellow Dundas St. West buddies Bookhou and R.A.D. to produce Do Design, a four day design crawl now in its second year which features contemporary furniture, objects, architectural and graphic design on display in storefronts, [...]

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For years we lived with a matching sofa and arm chair set, super stylish mid-century canadiana bones covered in your great uncle Harold’s stained tweed blazer fabric, chewed through from years of cat nail sharpening/stuffing hunting.  The set itself was quite reasonably priced from Bungalow in Kensington market, but anytime I looked in to getting it recovered I had my hand slapped away by quotes well beyond our means.  As a very generous housewarming present my parents paid to have it recovered in a very handsome charcoal upholstery [...]

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I am running out the door so just a flyer and some links for this pop-up shop – stylish & tasty looking (& opened today!):

http://blog-fieldandmarket.tumblr.com

Facebook event

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Sheridan’s Craft and Design Department are having their annual grad shows this month at the Ontario Crafts Council Gallery. It’s no secret that many fantastic craftspeople come out of Sheridan…check out The Shape of Things for a preview of things to come from some seriously talented crafty upstarts.

THE SHAPE OF THINGS
Sheridan Craft & Design Graduate Exhibition

Ceramics and Glass Studios – April 14-24, 2011
Opening Reception Thursday, April 14, 6-9pm

Furniture and Textile Studios – April [...]

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