The barrage of posts we’ve recently published on the interior design of retail spaces has us thinking: Vancouver is a wide-open, largely untapped market for retailers looking to set up innovative and conceptually driven shops. With the exception of Dutil on Cordova Street, few have utilized creative or thematic merchandizing as a means of cultural [...]

Comme des Garcons has been killing the pop-up shop scene since 2004 with their self-dubbed “guerilla stores”.
They’ve had shops in swanky locales like Barcelona, Singapore, Athens, Reykjavik and East Berlin, just to name a few. Each location stays open for one year only, and advertising is kept grassroots. Unless you come across a poster [...]

Hotel Everland is a one-room traveling art and design project created by Swiss artists Sabina Lang and Daniel Baumann. The hotel was initially exhibited on stilts at Neuchâtel Lake in Switzerland as part of the 2002 Swiss Expo and has since been displayed on the roof of Gallery für Zeitgenössische Kunst in Germany.
Open to the [...]

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Wonderwall is a Japanese design firm that was founded by Masamichi Katayama back in 2000. Specializing in cutting edge retail and commercial spaces, and most known for designing A Bathing Ape’s “BUSY WORK SHOPs” in Japan, London, New York, and Hong Kong, Wonderwall is changing the way some of the world’s most progressive [...]

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Mike Bloomfield, Al Kooper, Steven Stills - Albert’s Shuffle (Live)
Mike Bloomfield, Al Kooper, Steven Stills- It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry
Mike Bloomfield, Al Kooper, Steven Stills - Stop (Live)

You’ve done the standard three-month backpacking trip through Europe after high-school, and perhaps since, you’ve spent six weeks in Costa Rica, a few more on the south pacific tour, and of course, a week at the Grand Oasis in Mexico. Adventure intrigues you, but you seem to have done it all. You’re looking to experience [...]

Brothers Ryan and Bryson Robertson and their good friend Hugh Patterson set out on a three-year circumnavigation of the globe. The purpose of their trip: to document and record marine pollution and its effect on isolated and deserted islands and beaches. In order to make their discoveries available to print and broadcast media, educational institutions [...]

Good design has never been more critical to the image of businesses, products and services than it is today. As a result, creative jobs are in demand and companies are trying to learn how to effectively implement and manage the overall design process to ensure corporate success.
If you are unsure of how design could fit [...]

Fall is just about over in Vancouver and winter will soon be rearing its ugly head. For locals, that means weeks on end of torrential downpours, blistery winds, and at higher altitudes, powder-dusted mountaintops.
For local ski and snowboard enthusiasts, nothing is more exciting than the anticipation of cruising Whisler/Blackcomb’s backcountry on a clear and sunny [...]