EXHIBITS

Canadian High School Design Competition
September 5 - September 23, 2007

The Design Exchange and the School of Industrial Design at Carlton University are proud to announce the Twelfth Annual Canadian High School Design Competition Exhibition. The aim of the competition was to promote the study and awareness of various design disciplines, and the study of design in schools across Canada. The competition was open to all high school or CEGEP students. Project themes for this year were: Portable Work Station (Sponsored by Teknion Furniture Systems), Technology Park, Active Wear Garment, Public Washroom Redesign, 2008 Logo Competition. Admission is free.

Generously Sponsored by Sears Young Futures Program

Best of Canada/ Canadian Interiors
September 26 - October 16, 2007
Congratulations to both the winners and to all those who entered and proved once again that Canadian design and designers achieve at an exceptional level. The winners entries will be exhibited in the main lobby. Admission is free.

Street Food Vending and Design
Curated by Lorella di Cintio, ADB PhD, in partnership with Multistory Complex"
September 26 - October 16, 2007
An exhibition of entries to the Toronto Vending Cart Design Competition.
The Street Food Vending Project aims to introduce healthy, affordable, and culturally diverse street food to Toronto; improve vending policies and opportunities for existing vendors; and educate the public on the links between street vending and larger planning themes such as sustainable development, regulation of urban space, workers’ rights and socio-cultural expression in a multicultural city.

Material Skills – Exhibit and Workshop
October 1 – November , 2007
This exhibition showcases materials invented by leading designers or used by world famous designers and architects for their progressive projects. Materials include architectural glass used by OMA, Herzog & de Meuron, knitted walls used by Studio Muurbloem and Alcarbon aluminium foam used by Frank Gehry. A workshop facilitated by Els Zijlstra, Director of Materia, will launch the Material Skills exhibition at DX.

Workshop:
Monday, October 1, 11:00 am – 2:00 pm, Registration fee: $75 / $60 DX members
For further information and/or registration: www.dx.org/museum/exhibit.html

Produced by Materia. Presented by IIDEX/NeoCon, Consulate General of the Kingdom of The Netherlands, Design Exchange. Sponsored by Forbo and Sico Paints.

Design Exchange Awards
presented by the Globe and Mail

The October 4th deadline for submissions to this year’s DXAs is fast approaching! For more information on how to submit a project to one of the twelve categories, including Architecture, Fashion, Landscape Architecture and Graphic Design, go to www.dx.org/dxa for submission package guidelines and registration form. Save the Date: the DXA Award Dinner, Thursday, November 29.

Our Partners:
Association of Canadian Industrial Designers
Canada Green Building Council
Canadian Society of Landscape Architects
Fashion Design Council of Canada
Interior Designers of Canada
Royal Architectural Institute of Canada

Design Exchange Awards are sponsored by Audi, Aeroplan, Exclusive Affair Rentals, Enville Catering and Fairmont Royal york.

www.dx.org/dxa

Submission Guidlelines as pdf.

Digifest
The second in our series of workshops leading up to digifest2008 in March will take place at Harbourfront on September 12. Following the success of our July discussion on water-based disasters, we now turn our attention to the use of digital storytelling in healing trauma and recovering collective cultural memory. Elena Lamberti of the University of Bologna, Italy, will tell us about her cutting-edge research with the EU. A few spots are left and it’s free – see www.dx.org/digifest for registration information.

TTC Charrette
Join us on Wednesday, September 26 from 12-5pm for a design charrette with the TTC. Focusing on the TTC’s corporate identity and issues related to subway station entrance visibility, this charrette is intended to foster community-based collaborative thinking which will generate new concepts to reshape the TTC’s presence in our city. Keynote presentation by Alex Bitterman, a branding expert from Rochester Institute of Technology. Registration is free, but seating is very limited. Attendees must reserve a spot by registering through the DX. Please contact catherine@dx.org for more information.


Universal Design Series

Looking for insight on a rapidly growing demographic? Want to add a new skill to your CV? Find out more about ‘The Aging Population’, this year’s series of Universal Design Professional Development workshops. Visit www.dx.org/universal for more on our four monthly workshops, starting in September.

DX News

FEEL THIS
Last year the DX Black & White Fundraising Gala sold out early….DON’T MISS OUT ON AN EXTRAORDINARY PARTY!

Saturday October 20. VIP Dinner 6:30 & Gala Party 8pm. This year we honour Eb Zeidler – and Karim Rashid will join us as DJ! Tickets go on sale this month. Watch for upcoming ALERTS with all of the Details!

CANADIAN DESIGN IS IN THE BAG
Call for Entries!The DX announces a call to designers of all disciplines across Canada for one of a kind, original bags to be auctioned at its annual fundraising gala. Bag is defined as a flexible container with an opening. This year’s gala theme, 'Feel This' should be the inspiration behind the design. Chosen because of its relationship to texture, visual and physical - as well as its relationship to the emotion that good design evokes, ‘Feel This’ should give designers plenty of room for innovation. Contact katie@dx.org 416.216.2138

CANSTRUCTION
CALL FOR ENTRIES – DEADLINE SEPTEMBER 12
Architects, engineers and designers design and build structures made entirely from canned foods. Structures are on display throughout the Toronto Dominion Centre. One winning design will be on display at the Design Exchange.
Visit www.canstructiontoronto.com for more information on this initiative that benefits the Daily Bread Food Bank.

talk20 toronto
CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS
talk20 is not a lecture but a gathering, an open forum for the dissemination of ideas in art, architecture and design. It provides a open stage for artists and designers to informally present their work and ideas to a greater audience. Produced in cities around the world, talk20 seeks to spark a conversation across ideological, geographic, and disciplinary boundaries. talk20 is curating a roster of professionals, educators, and students working across the fields of spatial practice including art, media, architecture, urbanism, and landscape. www.talk20.org

Shrinkage Worldwide Awards 2007
Call for Entries
Design a Poster Manifesto that promotes shrinkage culture in our daily lives and in our professional thoughts and actions. Entries due November 19th 2007. Visit site for more details on the web site:
http://www.shahneshinfoundation.org/

International Furniture Design Competition
Call for Entries
Triennial competition highlighting wooden furniture
Deadline for submissions is December 7 2007
Finalist of the competition are exhibited at the IFDA International Furniture Design Fair Ashikawa 2008. For more details and to download submission form visit http://www.asahikawa-kagu.or.jp/ifda/

Graphic Virtuosity: Architectural Posters from the Robert G. Hill Collection
10 September – 8 December 2007
The Eric Arthur Gallery
Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design University of Toronto
230 College Street, Toronto ON M5T 1R2
Admission is free
For more information: www.ald.utoronto.ca 416-978-5038

Sustainable Environmental Design Keynote Series
University of Calgary and the Calgary Chamber of Commerce
Paul Goldberger, Pulitzer Prize winning architecture critic, Series by delivering an intriguing dinner talk, entitled "Cities, Place and Cyberspace: Sustainability and Meaning in the Urban Environment", on September 26th, 2007. This innovative lecture series, now in its 4th season, celebrates leading thinking and thinkers in the realm of environment, urbanism and design. Contact brian.sinclair@ucalgary.ca

The Design Buzz from Winnipeg
submitted by Sandra Sasaki
Several of Winnipeg’s industrial designers have made the cover and are featured in the September edition of Western Living magazine www.westernliving.ca

Included are Matthew Kroeker www.matthewkroeker.com , Cocoon Branding www.ilikeoi.com Warren Carther www.cartherstudio.com and OS1 www.OS1.com

Winnipeg’s HutJ and Moule are what the article calls “boosters” – the champions of these talented people. HutJ manufactured and took Matthew Kroeker’s “Camila” and “Marisa”, a stackable, side chair from Toronto’s Stuart McQuarrie to last May’s ICFF in New York – both pieces made it onto the “Top 10 chair” list on the influential blog Apartment Therapy. www.hutj.ca and www.apartmenttherapy.com

Pulse Furniture and EQ3 of Winnipeg are what the article calls “The Producers” - the companies who are bringing good design to the masses. Pulse’s customers can personalize their furniture purchases – from altering the height of their piece to changing the density of their cushions. EQ3, an offshoot of Palliser, the largest furniture manufacturer in Canada, are marketing Winnipeg’s star designs around the world. www.pulsefurnituredesign.com and www.palliser.com

JOB OPPORTUNITIES

Design Exchange
Collections Management Assistant
October 1 – December 21, 2007
Monday to Friday 35 hours a week

The Design Exchange seeks a candidate with education in museum studies, archival studies, art history, fine art (or similar field of study with experience in collections/archival management) who will partake in the Collections Management project titled "An Icon of Canadian Design: The Fred Moffatt Archive Development Project."

The chosen candidate will develop an organized archive and digital database based on the Design Exchange’s extensive Fred Moffatt archival holding recently donated to the Design Exchange. They will have the opportunity to create interpretive materials for the collection, as well as aid in the initial development of a Moffatt exhibition. They will work closely with the Collections Manager, Exhibitions Coordinator and Senior Director of Programs at Design Exchange.

The deadline to apply is September 14, 2007. Please email your cover letter and resume to daniela@dx.org.

This position is supported by the Department of Canadian Heritage's Young Canada Works program. The successful candidate must meet all eligibility criteria of the YCW in Heritage Organizations program.

INTERIOR DESIGN HOST for Cineflix and HGTV’s new national, primetime television series, ‘RENTAL VIRGINS’. With a dynamic personality, the host is an expert in the world of design. Someone who is witty and comfortable on camera and has the personality to drive this series along with the realtor. He is outgoing and outspoken, and an experienced professional who takes each ‘client’ under his wing. Contact Sue for more information at: smsconcepts@rogers.com

Pet Peeve

The Stucco Box
Please, I am begging you - don't build a stucco/stone box for your house! It seems like a trend has been started in many parts of Canada - and it is not good. I have witnessed an overwhelming number of homes, mostly postwar structures, transformed into stucco boxes with stone facades. Most have no regard for appropriateness of material, context of neighborhood - and perhaps most importantly to the average Canadian - regard to life cycle and maintenance of material. While stone is easy to maintain, stucco can be tricky. If not applied and formulated properly, moisture damage can be quick and unyielding. It seems that willingness to invest in an architect is not on the radar of most home owners - perhaps fueled by the plethora of contractor led renovation television shows. Additionally, most of the stucco/stone boxes seem to be compiled from building yard leftovers with no regard to an actual architectural 'style'. Many are adorned with stucco medallions, Palladian windows or worse - an octagonal window - centred above the door. Yes, I am mortified - and yearn for a new CMHC catalog of houses - technically sound, sustainable and beautiful. CMHC, just do it - for me, for Canada.

Sam Sannella, President