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Presented at Gravitypope, 'Irresistible Indigo' is a window installation by block printer and experimental textile artist Hyunjung Lee. This series includes indigo-dyed textiles Hyunjung reinterpreted and reinvented taking inspiration from indigo dyers across the globe.

Irresistible Indigo

Window Installation

Irresistible Indigo

Jan 20

This is a collection that explores the reign of nature. It captures the extraordinary in our natural world through digital tools and techniques. These glass sculptures are molded to showcase nature’s rhythms, beauty, and grace.

Window Installation

Jan 20

Victoria Guy, a hot glass sculptor and Hyunjung Lee, a modern block printer/textile artist, have come together to create 'Colliding Ideas', an exploration of two disciplines of craft to present visual sensations with a focus on texture, transparency, and colour.

Colliding Ideas

Window Installation

Colliding Ideas

Jan 15

Exhibition of international and award-winning work by alumni of York University’s Department of Design.

York University Department of Design Alumni Exhibition

Exhibition

York University Department of Design Alumni Exhibition

Jan 20

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To correct the disproportionate representation of BIPOC within the architecture and design professions. Students that identify from these groups are invited to a collaborative portfolio review session with leaders throughout the design community.

BIPOC Portfolio Collaboration 2023

Event

BIPOC Portfolio Collaboration 2023

Jan 27

This exhibition features projects that push the boundaries of creative technology and have been developed in the Design + Technology Lab at The Creative School.

Design + Technology Lab at The Creative School

Exhibition

Design + Technology Lab at The Creative School

Jan 11

'A FEW MOMENTS LATER' by FUGITIVE GLUE is a collection of limited design objects and artifacts for sale, but you decide the value. We breakdown the hours, cost, and secret sauce. What is creativity worth? Take a moment and make a bid.

A FEW MOMENTS LATER…

Exhibition

A FEW MOMENTS LATER…

Jan 21

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A photo exhibition by Henry VanderSpek featuring Toronto street scenes where words have been covered up or removed. Images captured over ten years invite viewers to consider what has been erased and what lies ahead for this redacted city.

Exhibition

Jan 10

'Language Structures' is an interdisciplinary experiment testing the confluence of typography and architecture; examining thresholds of two and three dimensions; revealing structural potential of a communicative exoskeleton. Developed using algorithm aided design techniques, Paul Aloisi's sculptures propose letterforms as architectonic units.

Language Structures

Window Installation

Language Structures

Jan 20

'love bomb' is an explosive manifestation of a feeling that can’t be contained. Super cute elements symbolize the battle of loving the unlovable in others and in ourselves. Love is simple and complex, delicate yet courageous, a question and an answer.

Window Installation

Jan 20

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Design Core Detroit and Cambria join efforts to facilitate a lively conversation that highlights designers who are actively practicing internationally from Detroit and Toronto. The conversation will discuss shared experiences and the benefits of working in between two creative capitals across nation lines.

United by Design, Detroit x Toronto: A tale of two design cities

Event

United by Design, Detroit x Toronto: A tale of two design cities

Jan 25

'The Bar Stool' is about the journey. It goes from a house to the cold sidewalks, to a warm cozy bar and maybe back in the streets again. Hopeful to find another home again – constantly changing, but always moving forward.

Window Installation

Jan 20

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