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Happy Scope

FWA of the day 04 February 2025:

Happy Scope

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To send you its best wishes, the agency Just Happiness predicts your year 2025 through AI in an immersive and playful experience.

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Sons & Daughters

Sons & Daughters is a storytelling project about Chinese-Canadian cafés, food and family. Every town across Canada has a Chinese-Canadian café. Each has its own story.

James and the Giant Peach

Simon Laveuve’s 1/35-Scale Dwellings Hint at a Post-Apocalyptic Way of Life

Whether slathered with graffiti, overgrown with moss, or decorated with found knick-knacks, Simon Laveuve’s sculptures hint at anonymous lives. Even though we never see those who inhabit the eclectic miniature dwellings (previously), the artist invites us to examine an alternative way of life.

Crafted at 1/35 scale, tiny tables, windows, paintings, and other objects fill multi-story rooms and mezzanines. In his most recent works, Laveuve continues his characteristic assemblage-like style, imagining a post-apocalyptic reality where basic belongings provide for a simple life.

In “D’un bout à l’autre,” for example, which translates to “from one end to the...

Willo Perron creates sculptural Chanel runway in restored Grand Palais

Designer Willo Perron has created a curving runway for the Spring-Summer 2025 show for fashion house Chanel, which took place in the newly restored Grand Palais in Paris.

The curving, white structure is composed of two large C-shaped ramps stretched out to resemble an infinity symbol and pays homage to the '"infinite excellence of Haute Couture".

The show took place at the centre of the newly restored Grand Palais, which recently reopened after a significant restoration by Chatillon Architects and also served as a venue for the 2024...

Olo. A place to simply be

Great buildings are like great people?the best ones bring us together. Our partners at Rize know this first-hand. Focusing on large-scale, design-forward, commercial, and residential communities throughout Metro Vancouver, they enlisted our help for an up-and-coming 38-story rental and strata project featuring 555 homes. We worked with Rize to help conceptualize the property's amenities, spatial design, name, brand expression, and voice. This system needed to be flexible enough to cover the various stages of this years-long project: municipal proposals and pre-sales, construction and broader promotion, and finally, ownership and livability.

Mafell's Bad-Ass NFU 50: A Circular Saw with a 2"-Plus-Wide Blade

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At first blush, Mafell's NFU 50 appears to be a regular track saw.

Then you see its beefy cutter head:

That thing is 60mm (2.4") wide! And it can cut nearly 2" deep. It's meant to be used by timber framers, to cut tenons on large timbers, for instance. It can also be angled, and used to cut bird's mouths on rafters.

See it in action:

Suspicious Animals Take Stock of Their Surroundings in Strangford’s Vibrant Prints

A posse of vibrant creatures slyly scope out their surroundings in prints by Jo Pearson, a.k.a. Strangford. From pigeons and rabbits to alligators and fish, the artist’s most recent creations expand upon her previous works featuring playful animals.

In the last year, Strangford has gradually shifted her practice toward carving wood, contrasting her earlier techniques that largely focused on linoleum. “It might seem like a small change, but it makes a big difference to the character and texture of the print,” the artist explains. “The more handmade the finished print looks the happier I am.”

As Strangford refines her woodblock carving skills,...

Antartic – The Perfect Union of Illumination and Designer Furnishings

An iconic silhouette and evocative name, inspired by the South Pole, characterize the intriguing table lamp Antartic, designed by Marc Sadler. A complement that merges functionality with sophisticated design, Antartic consists of two distinct components: a metal support base that accommodates the light source and a sphere, slightly flattened at the poles, crafted from mouth-blown [...]