The Design is in the (Playful) Details at Science & Sons08.23.10
CGW finds that in the world of designers there are as many motivating factors as there are different types of materials amongst the brightest and the best. With Science & Sons it is ideas that motivate and garner innovative design. At the helm, steering the Toronto design company straight towards success, is Tristan Zimmerman, who [...]
Visual Jokes + Spoonerisms = GAMA-GO08.04.10
Rene Magritte’s art work has been the modern and iconic example of “visual joke” for almost half-a-century. Magritte himself describes it as the “sound knowledge of how to present objects in a manner both suggestive and questioning.” CGW is happy to report that the visual joke by Magritte’s definition is not totally dead nor is [...]
Urban Craft from CGW’s iCraft Paladin07.29.10
Creative Genius World was first borne out from an organization that prided itself on representing exceptional Canadian craftspeople and have been enthralled with their high level of creative execution and genius creativity. Thirty years later, and while CGW expands into international design, we have not forgotten our strong Canadian craft roots. We have, however, reinvented [...]
BUILT to carry on.07.26.10
First, there’s the logo: Nothing says it more totally or boldly or more simply than the BUILT logo. An innovative company in NYC, whose roots are grounded in American industrial design, BUILT took the idea of making bags, like their market tote or lunch bag, and upping it into what we can only describe as [...]
“Are we there yet…”07.19.10
With summer holidays come summer road trips. It’s a bit of a North American tradition to pile the tykes into the car and wait an hour for the backseat politic to begin, usually with the rally cry of all summer holidays: “Are we there yet?!” Short of leaving the little lovelies at the nearest gas [...]