Designers in the Classroom Exhibition               
January 7th – March 2nd, 2008

Opening Reception: January 16th, 6.00pm
Supported by Ontario Arts Council and TD Financial Group

Inspiring the next generation of Canadian designers, Darren Finlay, Kevin Karst, Saskia Wassing-Shepherd, and Bruno Weber have worked with teachers at four Ontario schools to give students a real sense of the importance of design, as well as the design process.

The culmination of this six-week program is an exhibition of the student work at the Design Exchange. For more information on the exhibition or the program, please contact our Youth Education team at 416.216.2138 or education@dx.org.

DXA’s
Winning Entries on Display November 29 – January 27 2008

Design Exchange Awards
Presented by The Globe and Mail
Established in 1991, the DXAs are the most highly anticipated and the only national Canadian multi-disciplinary design competition to judge designer’s work on commercial effectiveness. Our mandate is to foster business and public understanding of the impact of design excellence on the economy, environment and quality of life.

Winning entries along with process drawings and models are on display in the Exhibit Hall.

Klockwerks
December 1, 2007 - March 2, 2008

Design Exchange launches a series of exhibits exploring design enterprises that recycle materials in distinct ways.

Klockwerks: Shifting Gears, exhibits the work of Roger Wood an artist who meticulously assembles clocks out of myriad pieces, remnants, and parts of objects made obsolete by time.

Roger Wood worked as a heavy construction engineer, and years later, studied interior designer at Ryerson University, before embarking as creative lead of the Klockwerks studio, located in Toronto’s Liberty Village.

Klockwerks: Shifting Gears is curated by Paola Poletto, the Senior Director of Programs at the Design Exchange.
Admission is free.

PA Day At DX
Professional Development Day is for Kids too!
February 15 & April 4

An amazing, fun filled day of design based activities for children aged 7 to 11.  Activities are to include a group fashion challenge using recyclables and a green architecture project.  Both days are suitable for both boys and girls. 

Activities take place in the DX Studio on main floor of Design Exchange
Cost is $60.00/day DX Members, $65.00/day for non-members.
You can drop your child off on your way to work! Before care from 8.30am to 9.00am, after care from 4.00pm to 5.30pm, are available for an additional $10.00 per child.

Universal Design Series
Managing the design process for a maturing client
January 10, 2008, 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Location: Design Exchange
www.dx.org/universal

Design, apparel and safety expert Lisa Cook McGill will present a step-by-step guide on how designers can cultivate effective client and manufacturer relationships, from corporations to the public sector. Using real-life design case studies, participants will learn to hone their skills in taking their creative concept to a marketable, profitable deliverable – and in particular how to tap into the aging population as a critical mass market.  McGill will share tips on timelines, pricing, sourcing, industry relationships and intellectual property agreements.

Registration is limited to encourage a small, in-depth group discussion, and to accommodate the needs and backgrounds of individual participants.

Lisa Cook McGill is President of Crux Design Industries and a sought-after business and design facilitator. Her clients include the Department of National Defence, the Greater Toronto Airports Authority, 3M Canada and a number of past retail clients. Her work focuses on product and program development with corporate clients.

Registration: $75 ($60 DX Members/Students) – contact Catherine Molnar, Professional Development Coordinator, at catherine@dx.org to register

Download registration form here

Presented in partnership with City of Toronto, Economic Development, Culture and Tourism.



DX Business Forum
March 4 2008

Design Exchange launches the DX Business Forum: Integrating the Design Process. Manufacturers, designers, and business managers will come together to discuss and share step-by-step processes that boost innovation in Canadian enterprises. This forum will focus on the integration of innovation in business plans and supply chains and team management. 

Keynote Presentation
Product Design and Development: Presentation of findings
Francesco Del Bianco and Eric Madueno, Industry Canada

Forum Topics Include:
•Intellectual Property Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP, Barristers & Solicitors

•Tax Incentives KPMG LLP

•Case Studies

•Calculating Design Investment

Forum Partners: Industry Canada, Ministry of Economic Development and Trade, KPMG, Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP.

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DX At GTAA
In partnership with the Greater Toronto Airports Authority (GTAA), DX presents an exhibition of quirky, colourful, mid-century radios alongside a survey of contemporary, high profile Canadian designers and their work. You can visit the show in the Skylights Exhibits area of Toronto Pearson International Airport (November 23, 2007 – February 18, 2008).

http://www.gtaa.com/local/files/en/Travellers/Art/CanadaInTheMaking.pdf

SHOP DX NOW OPEN
Visit our kiosk in the DX lobby next time you’re here. The DX staff has selected a small collection of lovely items designed by Canadians including delicate tableware from Coe&Waito, silver jewelry from Wilk Designs, Mago5 spice containers, Ninutik maple syrup and creatures from Monstor Factory.

INTERIOR DESIGN SHOW/IDS 08:
Celebrating 10 Years of Design in Canada
February 21 to 24. Direct Energy Centre, Exhibition Place.

IDS 08 features British Design Icon Tom Dixon, Belgian Designer/Artist, Arne Quinze, NY-based Dutch Architect Winka Dubbeldam of Archi-tectonics, and NY designer Larry Laslo. New exhibits: COLLABORATIONS featuring Giannone Architects, Johnson Chou, KPMB Architects and Teeple Architects; 10 Innovative Canadian Designers; Design Unlimited: posters designed by 10 uber-designers and starchitects including Marcel Wanders, Piero Lissoni and Karim Rashid in support of Doctors without Borders…plus 300 exhibitors with inspiring design and architectural products…www.interiordesignshow.com.

www.66degrees.com opens on January 21, 2008
66degrees.com is a new and innovative global online business that promotes and markets high-end, one-of-a-kind products from talented artists and designers from around the world. The 66degrees.com concept is a marriage between an exclusive shopping site and an online community, unlike anything ever done before. The products offered by 66degrees.com are all unique, one-of-a-kind, or produced in very limited numbers and consist mainly of designer works, art, fashion, lifestyle, and entertainment related products. Driven by the exclusivity and uniqueness of its products and its integrated social networking functionality, 66degrees.com strives to become a major promoter of art and design. Nothing would please us more than to promote Canadian designers. For more info contact Rick or Claudio at 416-619-7802 or send an email to:
info@66degrees.com.
http://www.66degrees.com/News/Blog/index.php

Client Confidential
What clients want is no longer a secret
9:30am to 4:15pm
Location, CNIB, 1929 Bayview Ave, Toronto

Organized by the Association of Registered Graphic Designers of Ontario (RGD Ontario), join us as design and marketing experts provide insights that will improve your communication and collaboration with clients, resulting in stronger partnerships and happier designers.

To register or for more info, go to www.rgdontario.com.

Job Opportunities
Feature Factory Design / Build
Experienced Architectural Designers and Project Managers

Feature Factory Design / Build, an award-winning Toronto-based ultra-custom architectural fabricator is continuing to expand its design and project management departments. Recent work-load includes challenging projects in the US, Asia and Canada. More information can be found at www.fefa.com full job description is available on the DX Careers in Design page:

http://www.dx.org/whats_on/community.html

Douglas Design Studio
Intermediate/Senior interior designer
Seeking an interior designer with a good sense of humor who is looking to work for an upbeat, dynamic studio that creates unique and beautiful interiors for high-end homes.  This position offers great potential for growth and development of your career.  For more information please email us at info@douglasdesignstudio.com

Douglas Design Studio
Architectural Technologist
Douglas Design Studio has a position for an architectural technologist with a good sense of humor who is looking to work for an upbeat, dynamic studio that creates unique and beautiful interiors for high-end homes.  Must be highly proficient in AutoCAD.  For more information please email us at info@douglasdesignstudio.com

AyA Kitchens
AyA Kitchens is seeking Cabinet Designers/Sales Representatives to work in thier Mississauga and/or Vaughn showroom. AyA Kitchens and Baths is a manufacturer of high quality, frameless cabinetry. By combining old world craftsmanship and attention to detail with high tech manufacturing processes we are able to offer innovative, quality cabinetry at competitive, manufacturer direct prices. AyA's in house design professional's work with clients ranging from individual home owners to multi-national builders to create cabinetry solutions tailored to specific tastes and needs.

Visit our careers in design page for full details
http://www.dx.org/whats_on/community.html

Allsteel
Architect & Design Specialist
A & D Specialist works within the A & D community, in a geographically assigned area (and working within the Company policies and procedures). An A & D Specialist is responsible for developing/enhancing positive perceptions of and familiarity with our brand and our offerings; and providing consultative support (product application and process navigation) for project activities to A & D, end users and our internal team.
Visit the DX Careers in Design page for full details http://www.dx.org/whats_on/community.html

VOLUNTEER PROJECT AT DESIGN EXCHANGE
Have strong graphic and web skills? Looking for an opportunity to gain valuable work experience?
Why not make new contacts and help out our non-profit organization!
The DX is looking for two volunteers to help on a web-based project.
Please send your resume to the attention of Daniela.mason@dx.org if you are interested in lending a hand and building your portfolio!

New On The DX Website
POST YOUR JOBS ON-LINE WITH THE DX!

If you are looking for good designers or looking for a great place to work in the design industry, keep your eyes on “Careers in Design” on our website.
Postings run for one month at $150 and include a listing in this newsletter that includes a link. Contact Claudine with submissions at Claudine@dx.org or 416.216.2143

http://www.dx.org/whats_on/community.html

The Garbage System
How many of you spend an excessive amount of time managing the garbage in your household or business?  In my household, we struggle to overcome the inefficiency of the entire system by inventing smaller systems within our house to collect and separate the garbage.  In my moderately small house, we have ‘pared’ down the garbage receptacles to 11 (plus one garbage disposal, which is not used regularly).  We buy blue bags for recycling, compostable brown bags for kitchen organics, paper yard bags for leaves and yard waste, and plastic bags for regular garbage.  Garbage is collected, separated, bagged, and taken outside to a staging area in a ‘garbage closet’.  Overflow is placed into the garage.  We must remember the days in which the city collect recycling, organic garbage, ‘regular’ garbage, and yard waste.  We are lucky if the garbage collectors take the garbage, as more often than not, they leave something behind because it violates that day’s pick-up.  Most recently, I learned that 80% of Toronto’s organic garbage cannot be processed in the city and is trucked to Quebec for processing – and I assume that there are still trucks making the daily haul across the border.  Do other cities across Canada operate similarly?  Are we happy sticking on band-aids indefinitely?  It is time that we ‘reset’ and re-imagine the garbage system.  This one stinks!

Sam Sannella, President

Volunteer Your Time And Learn About Design!
The DX has programs, lectures and many activities for the public, and we need your help! We are always looking for new people to join our volunteer corps. Whether it′s working on an event, graphic or web design, or assisting in our admin. office, you can be sure your time and help will make a difference! Your energy and imagination will help us deliver our programs! Find out how to register call Daniela Mason at 416 216 2160 or daniela.mason@dx.org

Suppliers And Vendors, Contribute In-kind To The DX!
Calling all design suppliers! The DX is looking for suppliers and vendors to help keep our facility on the leading edge of interior design. If you have products that you would like to showcase, we can help each other! We are always looking to update our areas with the newest products - carpeting, flooring, paint, lighting, equipment, furniture, signage, etc. Over 250,000 people see our spaces each year so this is a great opportunity for you. As well, we can promote you via this Express newsletter and on our website. If you are interested, please don't hesitate to call Claudine @ 416.216.2134.