designswarm {thoughts}

(I’m completing this series even after having left the country as some of my interviewees have been fairly busy. There are 2 more left and the last one is the best, so i hope you’ll bear with me :) ) I had the pleasure of speaking with Marie-Eve Bélanger who is one of the 4… Continue reading Looking for design: 24karrots

Lovely map of the Montreal web scene, which shows there’s tons happening on that level. via Montreal Tech Watch. Thanks Heri! (I bitched about the first map being based on the London Underground and he was kind enough to make another one , hurrah! )

When you live in Montreal, one of the things that permeates all levels of society, and even design in my opinion, is the linguistic landscape. For those of you that have never had the pleasure of visiting this great country, Canada is legally a bilingual country: french and english are the 2 official languages. All… Continue reading Looking for design: Design and Linguistics

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.

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

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