environmental designer home-furniture: April 2012

Thursday, April 19, 2012

Humber Design Show Off Event

March 28th Humber College had their Grand Opening for our new Design Center mixed with a art gallery style affair for students to Show Off their talent!

The evening was full of great energy, from students in Industrial Design, Interior Design, Interior Decorating, Design Foundation and Architect students proudly showing their work to Alumni, outside companies looking to hire and internal participants.

Their was also a list of industries talented alumni showing their faces and support!

Design Team for the new Design Center. http://www.gowhastings.com/index.htm

Humber Alumni and industry interior design leader Anna Simone with her design team.

Humber Alumni Lauren from Gluckstein Home and myself.

Had to get in on this one, TV Landscape Guru Carson Arther and Alumni of Humber's Landscaping program.

CityLine Leigh-Ann Allure and Benjamin Moore Representative.

Andrew Bockner from Andrew Richard Design with Humber Alumni and Andrew's right hand in the office Lenna.

And we can't not forget Outgoing TV DIY'er and Alumni Nicolas Rosaci.

The event was full when on lookers were surprised with a flash mob to get the formal presentation start.

Our fabulous Industries who's who, were gracious enough to be judges for the evening and choose their top picks of the night.

Top 10 students were more then thrilled to received their awards and acknowledgement in front of their peers and outside companies. Student with Judges.

The event was a success for all who attended and I want to thank everyone who was involved and making my job that much more easier. I truly had fun working on this project with each and everyone of you. Until next year everyone . . . .

Until next time,

w&c designer girl!

Monday, April 9, 2012

Karim Rashid's New Collection at BoConcept!

BoConcept introduces their new furniture collection designed by Canadian award-winning designer Karim Rashid. I was excited to be invited to the launch party last week that introduced the inspiring collaboration with world-renowned artist and designer Karism Rashid and hear him speak about his new line and the inspiration behind his Ottawa Collection.

"With offices in New York City and Amsterdam, Holland, Rashid is considered one of the most prolific designers of his generation with over 3,000 designs in production, 300 awards and work in 35 countries. His work is featured in 200 permanent collections and galleries worldwide." Needless to say it was an honour to meet such a talented and inspiring artist of our times, he is a character as well.

Make sure to check out his whole collection at BoConcept on the corner of Adelaide and Jarvis in Toronto!