Unbelievable but true, I have now settled in London permanently. After an exciting month catching up with the Montreal crowd and working on “Looking for Design” I have come to appreciate immensely coming back to the cut-throat beat of this city. Montreal shares the same mellow beat as Amsterdam but for this girl, it simply… Continue reading Young 20something looking for reasons to stay busy.
Category: Thoughts
Looking for design: Foumalade
1. How did you come to create Foumalade and could you describe the type of work you do? Foumalade is basically four people realizing that the combination of their talents yielded unexpected and interesting things, and then trying to figure out how to make a living off of that. We’re a fairly multidisciplinary bunch, with… Continue reading Looking for design: Foumalade
Looking for design: Material's Library of the University of Montreal
Design hides in academia as well in Montreal and it seems it’s also doomed to be under-represented there as well. It was my great pleasure to have a chat TODAY with Katia-Luce Mayer, responsible for the management of theMatériauthèque of the Faculty of Environmental design of the University of Montreal since 1998. An initial idea… Continue reading Looking for design: Material's Library of the University of Montreal
Quote of the day
A molecular biologist, at the RCA Design Interactions show: “What’s all this “science” crap?”
Quote of the day
Found on a creative job posting site in the UK: “One of the world’s fastest growing global brands, based in Helsinki, Finland” I wonder who it could possibly be. :P
Looking for design: Boris Anthony
I met Boris Anthony very briefly at Xtech in Paris last month and was thrilled to learn that he lived and worked in Montreal. Aged 32, he’s a self-defined “Web technology and design specialist, hyper-connector”. On top of that, he was also in part responsible for organising Montreal’s very own Pecha Kucha. I thought he… Continue reading Looking for design: Boris Anthony
"Added": new social and business networking realities
If you’re a geek, every morning starts off with checking your emails which often include invitations. “So&So” has added you toTwitter, Facebook, Dopplr, Flickr yadi yadi ya… What happens then? Let’s say it’s someone you’ve never met. What do you do? So you Google them of course. You find out they are an interesting person… Continue reading "Added": new social and business networking realities
Images worth being on a t-shirt
When everyone does happy-go-lucky-let’s-just-pretend-everything-is-fine Alejandro Zamudio Sanchez tells it like it is. via Flickr
Looking for design: Furni
Not surprisingly, answers to my call for feedback about design in Montreal haven’t been pouring in so it was greatly refreshing to hear from Mike Giles at Furnicreations. He was lovely enough to talk to me about some of the great and more difficult things about working as a designer in Montreal. 1. Thank you… Continue reading Looking for design: Furni
Mixed messages (Day 3 of looking)
I wandered into downtown yesterday, in the bitter cold (it was around 13 degrees celcius, I haven’t felt that since my dutch winter many months ago) and bumped into what appeared to be the beginning of a week-long celebration of “fashion and design”. Another use of the word design. Interesting, i thought. As I walked… Continue reading Mixed messages (Day 3 of looking)