City + Country Portraits
ROADSPOTTER in Toronto: The Gladstone Hotel
The Gladstone Hotel is a unique urban hotel providing both travelers and Torontonians with a truly authentic experience of the local creative culture. Visitors can experience the comforts of the hotel's thirty-seven artist-designed guest rooms, attend art related, social, or corporate events held in our versatile venues, eat and drink in our Ballroom Café and Melody Bar and then step out into the heart of the city's vibrant art and design neighbourhood.
Gladstone Hotel
1214 Queen Street West
Toronto
ON M6J 1J6
CANADA
phone: +1 416 531 4635
mailto: INFO@GLADSTONEHOTEL.COM
find further information on the website
ROADSPOTTER is a project of DESIGNSPOTTER. www.designspotter.com
producer: Ioanna Paraskeva, ioanna@designspotter.com
Event Reports
Design & Emotion
Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe present over 200 items detached from traditional classifications of function, style, materials.
This exhibition focuses on the visceral appeal of products and defines the popular concept of emotional design.
City + Country Portraits
ROADSPOTTER in Toronto: Model Citizen
In May 2008 DESIGNSPOTTER went on the road to Canada, realizing a brand new project called ROADSPOTTER. In Toronto we made an interview with Georgia and Julian from MODEL CITIZEN who are located in Kensington Market...
People Portraits
ROADSPOTTER in Toronto: Todd Falkowsky / Motherbrand
Starting February 2008, Michael Erdmann and Todd Falkowsky of Toronto-based design collective Motherbrand launched "The Souvenir Shop": a retail installation of souvenir Canadiana offering wares that are both provocative yet affordable. We met Todd at the Gladstone Hotel.
