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2003
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Design
Traveller
September 18 - November 23, 2003
Travelling through time with Canadian design. Learn
about five decades of Canadian industrial design in
this interactive game and exhibition featuring objects
from the Design Exchange Permanent Collection.
To experience this exhibit visit the Design Traveller
web site: www.dx.org/designtraveller
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The
McDonald’s Project
September 18 - November 23, 2003
Re-engineered burgers, voting stations, sex and synthetics
- a powerful collection of thoughtful and satirical
messages by 30 designers and artists from around the
world.
Last fall, Release1 called for submissions for ways
to encourage ‘alternative effects’ at McDonald’s
using design. Impossible concepts, implementable changes;
anything was possible, and encouraged. Release1 hoped
to begin a dialogue for ideas that observe, process
and reflect our love-hate relationship with this worldwide
phenomenon.
Why did Release1 choose this topic? There is an enormous
infrastructure, a vast cultural impact, an international
presence, and complex design roles: all things with
extensive re-design potential. Plus, it’s a corporation
with a direct connection to the public stomach. McDonald’s,
more than any other corporate entity, embodies an omnipresence
and familiarity that almost anyone can identify with,
and that almost anyone has something to say about. Designers,
the new masters of physical media through the sheer
day-to-day necessities of their jobs, have the skills
to open this topic for discussion.
McDonald’s is a springboard icon, much like Nike
and Disney. This is not a culturejamming effort. While
some of the pieces use criticism of McDonald’s
to make a point, this body of work creates a bittersweet
vision of what our culture could become. At the same
time, it’s a redesign for a McDonald’s with
a sober, world-weary culture in mind.
Release1 provides a forum for design exploration
sheltered from traditional market forces. Comprised
of seven Canadian and American design professionals
with a common desire to create objects without boundaries,
Release1 fosters creativity in others via collaborative
workshops and exhibitions.
For more information visit
www.release1.net
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Photograph courtesy
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Dimensions
of Design
100 Classic
Chairs from 1800 to 1990
An exhibition of miniatures from the Vitra Design
Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany
June 26–August 24, 2003
Presented by 
No piece of furniture has attracted the attention
of designers, architects and artists like the chair.
Designs such as the chaise longue by Le Corbusier
or the Red-blue chair by Gerrit Rietveld are as well-known
and sought after as many celebrated works of art.
Dimensions of Design presents 100 miniatures, selected
as the most important chair designs from the early
19th to the late 20th century. The scale and precision
of the miniatures, exact 1:6 replicas of the originals,
encapsulate the history of industrial furniture production
and the wide variety of styles in contemporary design.
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Re-design:
Daily Products of the 21st Century
February 6–May 25, 2003
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Curated by renowned Japanese graphic designer Kenya
Hara, Re-design is an exhibition and experiment about
material culture and design. Thirty-two Japanese architects,
artists, and designers were challenged to rethink common
products tied to the lifestyle and cultural vernacular
of daily life in Japan. The exhibition invites us to
question the function and aesthetics of the everyday
objects we often take for granted. The exhibition also
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Tokyo
Doll
October 8 – 25, 2003
Contemporary ningyo are produced to represent the
figures, styles and cultural language of the underground
and pop culture in Japan. The exhibition presents
original dolls from Japan and Canada and explores
the distinction between art, design and commercial
product.
www.tokyodoll.com
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Design
at Work 2003
October 1 - 26, 2003
The Association of Registered Graphic Designers of
Ontario presents its annual juried exhibition of R.G.D.
members' work, coinciding with the Designthinkers
2003 conference, October 2 to 3.
www.designatwork.ca
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Best
of Canada
August 30 – Sept 28, 2003
The sixth annual Canadian Interiors awards celebrating
creative and innovative products and design projects.
www.canadianinteriors.com/bestcan.htm
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LoooLo
August 11 – 27, 2003
Sustainable textiles: combining design with responsibility,
and aesthetics with ecology.
www.looolo.ca
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Rocking Bench, laminated
white oak
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Material
Outcome Revisited
July
9–July 27, 2003
Furniture and objects by graduates of Sheridan College’s
Furniture Class 2003. www.materialoutcome.com
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Six
Times Five
July
30–August 8, 2003
Humber College Industrial Design presents their annual
café chair project.
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Rocket 2003
May 3, 2003
An exhibition and competition of graduating industrial design students from the three accredited schools of industrial design in Ontario (Carleton University, Humber College, OCAD)
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Canadian Young
Creatives and Cannes Lions Press and Poster Exhibition
April 28–30, 2003
Compare and contrast award-winning international work with up-and-coming
Canadian talent. Canadian Young Creatives entries on display alongside an exhibition of the world's best print advertising – a collection of the 2002 Cannes Press and Poster winners.
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Packaging Association
of Canada
April 21–26, 2003
The Packaging Association of Canada's biennial National Packaging Competition promotes a greater awareness of excellence in the Canadian packaging and design industries and recognizes the skills involved in the design, conversion and manufacture of the latest packaging developments. The Design Exchange and the Packaging Association of Canada (PAC) teamed up this year to promote Canadian package designers and manufacturers internationally through the 2003 PAC National Packaging Competition. The PAC-DX partnership culminates in the DX Best of Show Award and the exhibit of best of show and gold award winners at DX. The list of 2003 Gold and Silver Award winners in each Competition category is available online on the PAC website. Visit www.pac.ca.
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George
Brown
April 14–19, 2003
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Fruition
– Fresh Thinking, York Sheridan
April 7–12, 2003
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Mania
March 31–April 5, 2003
Durham College explores the passion and energy required to reach a design solution. On display: a selection of work by students in the graphic design program, part of the Schools of Design and Communication Arts.
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ReUse, ReCycle
and ReMake
OCAD's Faculty of Design Annual Student Competition
March 17–22, 2003
OCAD asked students to devise incentives, strategies or material reuses for dealing with garbage from an individual, institutional, corporate, civic or societal point of view. They were to propose reuse, rebirth or new application strategies or solutions, reducing the amount of material typically destined for landfill sites. 131 students from the Faculty of Design's six programs – Advertising, Graphic Design, Illustration, Industrial Design, Environmental Design and Material Art & Design – worked in mixed discipline teams of 3 to 6 persons.
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A Single Line,
Ryerson University Chair Project
February 12–March 13, 2003
Ryerson University held a student competition to develop an object that would be given to its major benefactors. Sixty-six third-year Interior Design students were challenged to design a chair that would convey the essence of Ryerson University. Agata Jaworski's chair was selected for its success in capturing the progressive nature of the University through a design based on a single line. The chair's dynamic profile conveys a feeling of lightness, flexibility and movement to imply a state of continuous change.
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Room for Chairs,
Ryerson Community Public School
January 13–February 7, 2003
The Next Generation of Canadian Designers, Ryerson Community Public School Exhibition.
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