ARIDO-EOC - Interior Designers of Canada

INSIDE THIS ISSUE:
A MESSAGE FROM
THE PRESIDENT
FIRM PROFILE
[in]tempo design studio
4té inc. does
NEW YORK CITY
Algonquin students take on
Habitat for Humanity
l’exposition IIDEX
RÉSUMÉ DU VOYAGE
DES ÉTUDIANTS
ARIDO EOC Sponsorship
Calendar of Events
Rendering: in[tempo] design studios. See article inside.
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ARIDO EOC Presidents Message
By Laura Rhodes
Laura Rhodes
Halloween has come and gone
and now the Christmas decorations are up in shopping centres.
I tend to have a December 1st
rule for decorations in my house.
I can handle one month of bows
of holly but two months of fa-lala is a bit too much for me.
No matter how you spend the
holiday season - decking halls,
lighting the menorah or kinara, or
just curling up in a ball and cursing the arrival of snow - I wish
you all the best. Since this will
be the last newsletter for 2013, I
wish you all a Happy New Year
and a healthy and prosperous
2014.
Laura Rhodes
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[in]tempo design studio
By Jeremy Cheff
FIRM PROFILE
[in]tempo design studio, located at
357 Waverly Street, is home to a unique
team of interior designers. Marianne
Dupont (founder), and Marcqus Laver
(partner), opened up their firm 11 years
ago to be more involved with projects
and work in a smaller open, studio environment. They strive to provide excellent
design-centric services and aim to surpass clients’ expectations.
Focusing mostly on commercial and institutional design, the firm has had the
opportunity to work on a wide variety of projects, allowing them to be more creative and
push the boundaries of design as we know it. By stretching their design experience, they
have become more versatile.
The “Candela Light Art Show”, is a yearly exhibition where artists explore lighting as an
artistic medium . [in]tempo participated in
all five juried exhibitions, creating a dozen
mixed media pieces, attesting to the company’s commitment to flexing their creative
muscles, whenever an opportunity presents
itself. [in]tempo’s 1st entry ‘Swank’ explored
the journey a simple electrical cord makes
from the wall, up the curve of a woman’s
leg, through the corset, to the fixture at its
heart. In 2007, ‘Effleurage’ shown here, included tissue paper flowers “folded using
a wet-origami technique to produce an organic mushroom-like effect. “ ‘Red Shoes’
displayed in 2008, was a pair of glowing red
penny-loafers equipped with ipods in lieu of
coin, allowing the user to escape.
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[in]tempo design studio
FIRM PROFILE (cont’d)
Although programs like AutoCAD, Sketchup
and Revit allow you to quickly come up with
a design, draw it and show the client multiple views, [in]tempo design studio often prefer to offer their clients hand drawings. Some
examples of their work include exterior enhancements for a Heritage condominium on
Dalhousie Street and conceptual design of
a TD Bank at Billings Bridge Shopping Center.
They have found a skilled renderer who can
complete a colour perspective from a photo in less time than it takes to build a computer model. The warm, more artistic quality
attracts attention and even enhances sales
according to developers. Hand drawing
is very useful to convey quick 3D information in a meeting and activates a part of the
brain that gets sleepy with a digital interface.
Another interesting project involved relocating over 400 pieces of EDC’s corporate art collection to their new headquarters. This included reframing, designing new display cases for
artifacts, coordinating insurance appraisals
and advising on new art purchases for key areas. Some clients appreciate that those with
an interior design field bring more value than
the traditional tasks of choosing colors and
finishes; a designer’s experience with interior
architecture, expertise with aesthetics and attention to detail, can contribute to graphics,
cosmetic aspects of architecture, creative
event planning, special decor, and more.
Marianne and Marcqus have created a unique
creative team environment to nurture designers. The group consistently affirms their creative spirit, whether it’s in their staff’s bi-annual
creative adventures (i.e.: glass casting, fusing,
painting, ceramics,..) or the design and fabrication of their unique seasonal corporate gifts.
With over 10 years in the business, this firm seems
to have found their place in Canada’s capital. Quoted from Pierre Amelotte in an article
describing the PAI Medical Group headquarters redesigned by [in]tempo design studio, inside out (see image): “ If you can make it in a
government city, you can make it anywhere!”
check out [in]tempo’s beautiful rendering on the cover!
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4té inc.
does New York City
By Jeremy Cheff
A few weekends ago, the
4té office had the amazing opportunity to go to New York City. As
a team, we got to experience the
city’s great architecture, culture
and food. Just the island of Manhattan has the double of Ottawa’s
population and is at least 30 times
smaller in size. As there is clearly no
way of expanding on the ground,
New York has unimaginably high
buildings in order to accommodate
all of these people. Within this overwhelming and beautiful place, we
got to visit Susan Tick’s home, have
a private tour of the Guggenheim
Museum and walk the streets that
showcase so many different architectural design styles.
On our first afternoon there,
after a great Falafel, we were
welcomed into Susan Tick’s home
near lower Manhattan. To say it
is a home is an understatement.
Not only does she live there, but
runs a business with a staff of just
under 10 people. In her beautiful
town home, the basement is where
the fabrics are weaved together
through a process of trial and error,
the main floor contains her modern
kitchen, as well as 6 work stations,
an inspiration board mounted on
a brick wall where they’ve pinned
their latest creations, a collaborative area, and plenty of carpet
samples on the old rustic hardwood
floor. As you make your way onto
the 2nd floor, you find her office
space beside her welcoming large
living room that also is used as a
conference room, and her small
outdoor terrace. The 3rd floor,
which we did not get to see, was
the bedroom.
After going through her process of inspiration and her latest designs, we were taken up to the living
room and shown a power point
presentation. In this presentation,
filled with only photos, she showed
us how to make similarities between
two things completely different look
alike. Most comparisons were done
between clothing and architecture,
proving that a lot of similar shapes
and colors can be found within the
two. This also showed how different
parts of design evolve together.
On our second day, we had
the opportunity to have a private
tour of the Guggenheim Museum. It
is a much different feeling being in
the space than when you are seeing it in all of the Hollywood movies!
Frank Lloyd Wright was an amazing
architect who really pushed the
boundaries of design. In this particular case, he didn’t stop at just the
shape of the building, but made
a point of giving a different experience within every room. He also
made of point of walking through
the space like it was a journey,
taking the elevator to the top and
spiraling down all the way to the
main floor while looking at all of the
art. It is a definite must see for those
who have never been!
Throughout our weekend
stay, we managed to get a lot of
walking done. We got to see New
York’s wide variety of architectural
design styles, from Roman Greek
buildings with the massive front columns to multiple modern buildings
with seamless window facades. This
great deal of walking also included
the historic freight rail on the west
side turned into an elevated public
walking trail overlooking a lot of the
city’s busy roads.
As interior designers, New
York is a great place to visit. With
its wide variety of design styles, and
important historic past, it continues
to grow and inspire those who get
to witness all it has to offer.
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ALGONQUIN Take on Habitat for Humanity
S T U D E N T S “Global Village” Honduras
By Rebecca Courtice/Dana Tapak
Students Kaitlin Hay, Nicole Veenema & Hannah Munroe on last year’s successful Habitat for Humanity Trip to Nicaragua.
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Professor
& a couple more helping hands....
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Making a positive
change in peoples lives
is very important to me.
Lisa McGee, 4th year student
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I hope to learn more about the
world and to develop my outlook on life through experiencing
a new culture and lifestyle.
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13 Students
Committed
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From November 9-19th, 2013, 13 of Algonquin’s
Interior Design students travelled to Honduras with
Habitat for Humanity Global Village and worked
with the locals in the town of Santa Rosa de Capon to build a house for a deserving family. In
keeping with the Habitat model each family contributes 'sweat equity', and we really enjoyed working
with them. This service trip is apart of an elective
that the students are taking this semester. In addition to having planned and prepared for travel,
the students also studied Honduras in comparison
to Canada. The intention is to offer this interdisciplinary course yearly with students/team members from various programs across the College.
The students travelled for 11 days and built with
the family for 6 days. We visited a local orphanage and participated in a cultural exchange with
the villagers. After our build days we travelled to
the Copan Ruins for two days of sight seeing
and rested before having travelled back home.
The participants this year would like to thank/acknowledge the following sponsors who contributed
to get the group to Honduras: Advanced Business
Interiors, Haworth Inc., Dauphin, Tandus, Centiva,
Groupe Lacasse, Arold Chambers Workspace
Solutions Inc., Inscape, Momentum Group.
Bridget Mason, 3rd year student
l’exposition
IIDEX
RÉSUMÉ DU
VOYAGE DES
ÉTUDIANTS
Par Valerie Meloche & Gloria Séquin
Ottawa, Ontario- Les 26 et 27 septembre 2013 furent deux
jours mémorables pour les étudiants de La Cité collégiale et
du collège Algonquin : un voyage à l’exposition IIDEX, organisé par ARIDO.
Nous avons quittés Ottawa à 7h00 le 26, en direction de
Toronto. Pendant le voyage d’autobus, ARIDO ont bien pris
soin de nous en nous offrant des sandwichs et breuvage. De
plus, à notre arrivée à Toronto, ARIDO nous avait organisé un
arrêt chez Haworth.
À Haworth, nous avons été accueillis les bras ouverts et ils
nous ont montrer leur bureau et mobilier. Nous avons eu la
chance d’approfondir nos connaissances dans le domaine
du mobilier commercial, ainsi que recevoir de bon conseils
pour nos projets futurs.
Après cet arrêt, l’autobus nous a apporté à l’Hotel Super 8
qu’ARIDO nous avait réservé. Nous avions l’option d’aller à
l’exposition IIDEX durant la soirée du 26 et la journée du 27.
En soirée du 26 il y avait une soirée plus personnelle avec vin.
Ceux d’entre nous qui sommes à allés ont eu la chance de
jaser avec divers exposants; cela était très enrichissant.
Au matin du 27, nous avons été à la salle d’exposition là où
nous avons découvert de multiples produit et marchandise
de design, avec des exposants passionnées qui étaient plus
que content de nous expliquer avec attention leur produit.
Nous avons tous beaucoup appris et retenu de très bonnes
informations qui nous seront utiles durant nos études, mais
aussi pour notre futur.
Après 2 jours passés à Toronto à l’exposition IIDEX, je tiens à
remercier toute l’équipe d’ARIDO pour avoir organisé ce super expérience pour nous les étudiant. Ce voyage est mémorable autant coté personnel que professionnel. Nous avons
tous grandement bénéficié de cette expérience. Je recommande à quiconque, étudiant ou professionnel, d’aller à
IIDEX : c’est une expérience qui bénéficie a tout le monde
qui s’intéresse au monde du Design.
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DECEMBER 5th, 2013
ARIDO EOC Christmas Party
Where:
Restaurant ei8hteen
When:
Thursday, December 5th
KEEP CHECKING YOUR IDC
MAIL FOR NEW AND
EXCITING EVENTS!
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Stay tuned for more info!
Also visit
http://www.idcanada.org/english/main/events-calendar.html
for other important dates!
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Other Important Announcements
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Algonquin college is looking for industry guests
to participate in student presentations.
The industry feedback the students receive is a very important component
of their learning and evolution as interior designers. Your support, involvement
and participation is important to us!
If interested, please email Kurt Espersen-Peters at [email protected]
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Dana Tapak is looking to put a team together of interior
designers, industry associates, friends and family for a
Habitat for Humanity global village build in 2014.
Construction and building experience is not required. A willingness to help
and travel to a developing part of the world with a smile is all you need!
If interested, please email Dana at [email protected]
Discussion
Let your voice be heard!
To join the discussion with other members across Eastern Ontario, visit ARIDO-EOC’s profile and discussion
board online at:
CreateDebate.com
It’s an easy way to engage in debates with other design
professionals on topics that affect our
profession, and get a perspective on issues that are
important to our industry!
Have any suggestions,
questions or comments for
ARIDO EOC?
Let us know!
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