Tag Archive for the term: designers

smart design mart
a curated showcase of unique offerings from young talented designers
A new kind of design show has emerged on the Montreal scene. Housed in a 15,000 sq. ft. former garment industry loft, smart design mart showcases a blend of seasoned show veterans and first-time, fresh-from-the-studio exhibitors, with each hand-picked designer selling from a self-created [...]

The good folks at Planned Parenthood Ottawa have put together a fundraiser event that not only supports the fine work they do in sexual health, but gives exposure to local independent artists as well. PPO gave forty-five handmade “Magic Boxes” to local artists (and a few celebrities such as Rick Mercer and Ashley MacIsaac) [...]

Seven MFA candidates from San Francisco’s Academy of Art University were chosen to show their collections at New York fashion week 2009. Here are my personal favorites, sampled from the Swellelife, check out her post in full for more.
it’s refreshing to see each of these student designers doing something distinctly different from one [...]

Normally I don’t mind the cold and snow of Montreal, it’s sparkly and pretty and we don’t own a car anymore so we’re done with sitting in the cold waiting for it to warm up, moving it across the street in the middle of the night when the plows come roaring, losing it under mountains [...]

While we’re remembering some of the good indie fun had in 2008, let’s flash back to September 2008, NYC, Fashion week madness. For me one event in particular is worth revisting for it’s epicness (I do love a large scale indie art event) and that’s the Fashion Indie show where over 20 independent designers showed [...]

Discovered a crowd-funding, Kiva-like twist on independent fashion today, thanks to a post from Irenebrination on investing in design during financial crisis.
Mainstream fashion investing can be dramatic, even brutal, one window into it’s ups and downs is the Fashion Investing series on Business of Fashion, but the twist is a website called Catwalk Genius. [...]

Brides and grooms who have a hard time finding the perfect item for their wedding will breathe a sigh of relief when they attend the inaugural Indie I Do wedding event, being held at the Heritage Hall on Saturday, January 17, 2009.
Intended to be a departure from traditional wedding shows, Indie I Do is targeted [...]

Our Indyish Monthly Mess remains messy, and is especially tricksy when we convert a non-venue into a venue for one night, but it always seems to manage a magic, diversity and glow that I love in it’s every manifestation.
This month, Feb 29 2008, we returned to the private loft Studio 300 for some class, [...]

Shopdropping – an art form, the opposite of shoplifting, ie; placing art into commercial contexts and leaving it there for someone else to find, popped like a new idea into my inbox today after starting to buzz waaay back in 2006.
Here’s the call for the new Shopdropping project, you can be a part of it!: [...]

In the spirit of highlighting new stores in Mile End, here’s the word on the Hanneman Design/EcoDarling store on Villeneuve that opened this fall. The owners have been superbusy getting the store ready and the Official Opening Party is December 4th from 5-8 at the store, which is located at 69 Villeneuve, between St. [...]