Graduate student Kat Fu recently started Urbsvidi, an online store for illustrated prints and handmade goods. The drawings are playful isometrics of Toronto along with some of more intimate moments of urban life. I interviewed Kat to learn more about her work. (more…)
Five years ago, then-graduate student Chanel Dehond launched M’ling Shop, a line of playful greeting cards. She has since moved to New York City, shifted into design strategy, and started teaching, yet M’ling Shop continues. We catch up with Chanel to find out how her work has changed and developed over the past half decade. (more…)
Cian Hrabi’s 1B project in Toronto’s Junction aims to facilitate unplanned conversations between people who may not have otherwise crossed paths. (more…)
In her 3A studio project, Jing asks: how can we capitalize on the in-between, proximities, and energies of spaces? (more…)
Alexandra Hucik profiles the new exhibition in Design at Riverside, Carrot City. (more…)
The Stop Gap Foundation, the Cambridge Accessibility Committee, the Cambridge Seniors Woodworking Club, local businesses, and students from the UWaterloo School of Architecture are working together to bring StopGap Ramps to Cambridge, and we need your help with artwork! Storefronts with single steps up from the sidewalk can provide considerable barriers to the elderly, shoppers with strollers, and people with disabilities. StopGap ramps are small, easily-made accessibility devices that make storefronts with single-step barriers...
“You can do damn near anything; you just have to understand how to make a book out of it.” – Donald McKay
Celebrating its tenth anniversary, the Grand River Film Festival has partnered with BRIDGE for an exhibition of film related works. Position, an exploration of what it means to be an architect through various media will combine the components of film and design. We will be screening 9 short films from around the world that have been made by an array of architects, students and film makers. The event aims to present architecture through film, attempting to find the role of the architect.
BRIDGE is pleased to be a part of ArtCOP21 Waterloo Region as we celebrate the efforts of the UN Climate Change conference with a global initiative of the arts. This is a Call for Submissions for an art show we will be hosting – Inspired by Change: The People’s Climate Art – opening on November 30th. Submission deadline is November 16th.
Art, Design & Architecture, a documentary film series presented at the Original Princess Cinema in Waterloo, brings thoughtful explorations of the creative industries to a broader public audience starting this Monday. From architects to cartoonists to chefs and musicians, the subjects are as diverse as the lenses through which they’re viewed.