Category Archives: design
The Biblio-Mat: a novel way to sell books
Forgive the cheesy pun in the title, but I had to do it… Two things I love – vending machines and books – combined in one: the Biblio-Mat! The Monkey’s Paw, a secondhand book shop in Toronto, built a one-off… Continue reading
Category advertising, design, presentation tips
Tags biblio-mat, books, monkey's paw, secondhand, toronto, unexpected, vending machine
PechaKucha Night HK in Cathay Pacific’s inflight magazine!
Four-page article on PechaKucha Night HK by Kate Whitehead in the November 2012 issue of Silkroad, DragonAir / Cathay Pacific’s in-flight magazine for Asia-Pacific. Happy to be featured!
Category art, culture, design, events, hong kong, japan, pechakucha, press
Tags cathay pacific, dragonair, hong kong, kate whitehead, pechakucha, pechakucha night, silkroad
PechaKucha Night HK – Wed Dec 5, 2012 @ XXX Gallery
Special guest at the next PKN HK: Mark Dytham of Klein Dytham architecture, and co-founder of PechaKucha Night! RSVP list is not open yet, so check back here or on the Facebook page closer to the date for priority entry.… Continue reading
Category art, culture, design, events, hong kong, japan, pechakucha, unexpected
Tags hong kong, klein dytham architecture, mark dytham, pechakucha, pechakucha night, xxx gallery
JR INSIDE OUT in HK, part 2
Two months after the casting for JR’s Inside Out Project in Hong Kong, we hit the opening of JR’s Pattern exhibit and – surprise! My face was staring back up at me from the footbridge! Later we heard that 175… Continue reading
Category art, design, events, germany, hong kong
Tags french artist, galerie perrotin, german artist, inside out, jr, peter zimmerman
The “it’s impossible” challenge
Two stories, both bicycle-related, where inventors were told by various naysayers that what they wanted to do was impossible: Hövding the invisible bicycle helmet by Swedish industrial designers Anna Haupt and Terese Alstin Seven years in the making, it was… Continue reading
Category design, science
Tags anna haupt, BICYCLE, black box, canoe, cardboard, helmet, hövding, invisible, izhar gafni, Sweden, terese alstin
The anniversary logo
Facebook’s randomizing algorithm threw them together: Steelcase (furniture) and NSCAD (art school). Though both logos were familiar, I hadn’t noticed the similarities before. Side by side, they could be iterations of the same identity. Both are celebrating significant anniversaries this… Continue reading
Category design
The dreamscape
Phillip Schuster’s Skate Villa, Salzburg: hunting lodge turned indoor skate park
February 21, 2012 / Global Cities Week – the first PechaKucha Night HK X ChowPourianLab
February 21, 2012 / Global Cities Week – our first PechaKucha Night HK event! What a fantastic night!!! This was the first of the “back to the original grassroots spirit of PechaKucha Night” series for Hong Kong (a.k.a. student /… Continue reading
Category design, hong kong, pechakucha
PechaKucha on the air
Last-minute live interview with Phil Whelan on RTHK Radio about PechaKucha Night! Time flies when you’re having fun – so much so I didn’t get to explain the signature 20 x 20 format of PechaKucha. Thank you Caroline and Phil… Continue reading
Category design, hong kong, pechakucha, press
PKN10: Feb 21
Our first event is on February 21, 2012 (Tuesday) at XXX Gallery. Detailed info with map and presenter listing at PKN10: Global Cities Week. ***Invite & RSVP here***
Category design, hong kong, pechakucha
PechaKucha Night Hong Kong
Under the direction of HK-based design studio ChowPourianLab, PechaKucha Night Hong Kong is heading back to the grassroots spirit of the PechaKucha mothership in Tokyo. For those of you not yet familiar with PechaKucha (pe-chak-cha), it is a creative networking… Continue reading
Category design, hong kong, pechakucha
Exhibition @ the Harbinger, May 18 – 21
A new series of work by Sonia will be shown at the Harbinger Gallery (Waterloo, Ontario) as part of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts New Inductees Exhibition, May 18 – 21. COMMUNICATION BLOCKS plays with the interruption of an… Continue reading
Happy Rabbit!
Gung Hei Fat Choi! Happy Chinese New Year and Best Wishes for a prosperous Year of the Rabbit!
Category design
iClick
A nice, simple, 100% analog accessory for point-and-shoot digital cameras for which we created the identity: iClick – the attachable camera display mirror. Great for taking self-portraits or snapshots ‘around the corner.’
Category design
Los Logos Compass
Some of Huschang’s work will be featured in Los Logos: Compass – ‘a competent classification of prevailing tendencies in design’ published by Gestalten. It will be released at the end of September. For more info, check the Gestalten website.
Category design
Design Mart
ChowPourianLab is participating in Design Mart, at Innocentre from August 13-15. We will be at Booth 45, Foyer A, ground floor atrium. Hope to see you there!
UK > HK: Farrells / Placemaking from London to Hong Kong and beyond
Always more than happy to dive into an art- / architecture- / design-related challenge, designing this nearly 300-page 17-year retrospective was my first appointment in HK. UK>HK: Farrells Placemaking documents the trajectory of architects / masterplanners Terry Farrell & Partners… Continue reading
Elected, Royal Canadian Academy of Arts
The Royal Canadian Academy of Arts has elected Sonia to its membership. Now in its 130th year, the RCA is the oldest visual arts organization in Canada, and “recognizes excellence and lasting contribution to Canadian culture in twenty disciplines.”