Vancouver is gearing up for the West Coast’s premium residential design show. IDSwest will take over the Vancouver Convention Centre September 29 – October 2 and transform it into a design fan’s dream, featuring 200 exhibitors and keynotes speeches by some design heavyweights such as industrial designer and Red Dot award-winner Ross Lovegrove.
Last year’s event was host to over 30,000 visitors, and this year’s event is sure to be a hit. Head over to idswest.com for a drool-worthy look at the exhibitors for this year, from furnishings to interior design to architecture to art and media. The new green Vancouver Convention Centre should be a perfect setting for the show, which I’m sure will feature some great green and sustainable products, even designs crafted from the sail material at the old convention centre at Canada Place.
This entry was written by , posted on September 19, 2011 at 9:43 am, filed under design, upcoming and tagged IDSwest. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
Some time ago I dropped my cheap Seiko alarm clock one too many times, and the pieces went everywhere. The battery cover on the back fell off if you touched it, but this time I nearly split the thing in half. So, I went on a lengthy and frustrating hunt for the perfect alarm clock. Deploying what most people would consider an unhealthy level of research for such a tiny thing, as is my norm, I trolled through best alarm clock lists on the internet, looked in every department store I could get to, and cruised the design blogs.
The thing is, how the day begins can have such a profound impact on the rest of the day, and I foolishly assumed such a simple thing as a good alarm clock should be easy and cheap for a designer to do. How wrong I was. Now, I’m unbelievably picky with the design of the objects I choose to surround myself with, and like any other, there are many things an alarm clock has to do right for me to consider it. (more…)
This entry was written by , posted on November 17, 2010 at 9:52 pm, filed under design, what I use and tagged Alarm Clock, Braun, Dieter Rams. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
