Thursday, May 31st, 2012
Nils Vik used to make a living as a designer and photographer. He was really good too, winning numerous awards. But today he makes coffee. A strange career switch perhaps. But take a look at Parlour Coffee in Winnipeg, Canada, and you can see the designer coming through. Here’s a coffee experience that simply oozes
Thursday, March 15th, 2012
Canadian artist Brendan Fernandes uses language, dance, video and sound to highlight the complexity of cultural identity in context of globalization and migration. Born in Kenya of Indian heritage, Brendan Fernandes immigrated to Canada in 1989. Fernandes...
Sunday, February 19th, 2012
hk+np studio is a Vancouver based jewerly design studio that utilizes techniques and forms derived from the architectural backgrounds of the partners, Hiroko Kobayashi and Neil Prakash. Hiroko was born in Japan and is a graduate of...
Monday, February 6th, 2012
Stirred by her love for poetry and the multicultural character of her adopted country Canada, Besma Soltan started organizing ‘spoken word’ competitions that would inspire communities to engage in dialogue and better understand each other. SPEAKout was...
Wednesday, February 1st, 2012
Walter the Wandering Wave was a concept developed by Shane Janssens and Adam Wood of ‘Belly Of Fire Publishing‘. The concept came from Shane’s passion for surfing and his travels around the globe in search of perfect...
Tuesday, January 17th, 2012
Canadian photographer David Trautrimas creates fantastical landscapes using common household objects such as kitchen appliances, washing machines and garden tools. In one of his recent projects entitled ‘The Spyfront Project’, Trautrimas created images of Cold War era...