Toronto Chapter

Chapter Chairs

Monika Meyer
Monika Meyer
Nima Gopalakrishnan is a Senior Designer at Entro in Toronto.
Nima Gopalakrishnan
Timothy Belanger
Timothy Belanger
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SEGD Award Winning Projects

Teknion IIDEX Exhibit 2006, Vanderbyl Design
Teknion IIDEX Exhibit 2006
Toronto Botanical Garden, Adams + Associates Design Consultants
Toronto Botanical Garden
Centennial College Downsview Campus Centre for Aerospace and Aviation
Centennial College Downsview Campus Centre for Aerospace and Aviation
Reconnecting the PATH: Toronto PATH Wayfinding System
Reconnecting the PATH: Toronto PATH Wayfinding System
Lester B. Pearson International Airport, Greater Toronto Airport Authority, Pentagram
Lester B. Pearson International Airport
Un-Common Spaces
Un-Common Spaces

Toronto, Canada Blog

On Tuesday, December 13th, please join us to kick-off our inaugural ‘Design by Culture’ speaker series. Great EGD is shaped by context, history, and culture. Join our SEGD Toronto community and speakers, Raymundo Pavan and Natalia Ultremari, MJMA Architecture & Design; Kar Yan Cheung, BMD; and Edmund Li, Entro, to hear stories from personal and project-focused examples of how design is shaped by culture and experiences. This event is hosted by Bruce Mau Design, a globally recognized brand and design studio headquartered in Toronto. Combining rigorous strategy and groundbreaking design, they create compelling and innovative brand experiences for their clients and their customers. With over 35 years of experience building some of the most celebrated commercial and cultural brands in the world, they partner with organizations eager to take the next step in their evolution. Come visit BMD’s new studio space! Where: Bruce Mau Design 340 King Street East, Suite 500 Toronto, Ontario M5A 1K8 When: Tuesday, December 13th 2022 6:00 pm (Speakers begin at 7:00) Register Here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/design-by-culture-segd-speaker-series-ticket...

In light of the upcoming election and to be mindful of our members' time we decided to move this event to the following Thursday - June 9th.

On Thursday, June 9th we will be visiting the Acumen fabrication shop. The folks at Acumen have kindly invited us for some snacks, drinks, and a chance to explore the shop. Our hosts will show us around the shop and take us through each step in making a sign. We’ll learn about the process, machinery and materials involved from start to finish — and even take home a personalized souvenir to jazz up our workstations!

We will meet at Union Station (Bremner entrance) and travel to the Markham shop together by coach bus. The bus will return us to Union at the end of the night.

Where:  Acumen Visual Group (30 Riviera Drive #1). Meet up at Union Station (Bremner Entrance)
When:  Thursday June 09th. Meet at union 5:30. Bus departs at 6PM sharp. Returning  to Union at 10PM
 

Space is limited so get your ticket now!
Register Here

 

 

 

Fabricator Shop Tour | Toronto, CA

Join us for the first instalment of our Northeast Region Speaker Series: Street+Art.

As the weather gets nicer and we start spending more time outside, it's time to pay attention to our city streets again. All around us street artists are transforming concrete walls into moments of beauty and placemaking. Their work has the power to uplift communities and inspire change.

For this multi-city speaker series we have invited both artists and the organizations that facilitate their work through the city. Our speakers will take us on a virtual tour of their work showing us what they do and they how connect with the community.

More info and speaker profiles to come in the following weeks!

Speakers for Part 1 on June 3 Include:

Jane Golden, Director of Mural Arts, Philadelphia www.muralarts.org
Pascal Paquette, Artist, Toronto  www.pascalpaquette.com
Matthew Dayler, Artist, Cincinnati www.chroma-projects.com

WHEN: JUNE 3, 12pm EST
WHERE: ZOOM (Link sent out with registration)

RESGISTER HERE!

 

Thank you to Designtex for special support as our Northeast Region Chapter Sponsor.

www.designtex.com

On Thursday, March 11th, join us at noon to hear creative director Udo Schliemann and cognitive neuroscientist Vedran Dzebic speak about creating purposeful places though design intuition and colour psychology.

Feeling blue? Red in the face? White as a ghost? It goes without saying that colour has an intimate relationship with how we think, feel and behave. Yet the application of colour in design is by no means simple or straightforward. By balancing design intuition with the psychology of colour, we will explore how colour can support human needs.


Udo Schliemann | Principal Creative Director, Entro

With over 35 years of experience, Udo Schliemann is one of Entro’s most skilled designers leading a team of professionals in identity development, corporate communications, and branded environments. A native of Germany, Udo came to Canada and joined Gottschalk+Ash International in 1999. In June 2011, just after chairing the annual SEGD (Society of Environmental Graphic Design) design conference in Montreal, Udo left G+A and joined Entro Communications as Principal Creative Director. Later that year, Entro merged with G+A to offer expertise in research, communication design, wayfinding and branded environments. Udo’s work has focused on integrated wayfinding systems and branded environments for institutions and companies in various sectors, like Artscape, Toronto Financial District, Rotman School of Management, Ivey School of Business, Deloitte, Daniels Spectrum and the Weston Family Learning Centre. His work has received numerous awards like the Red Dot Award, SEGD Awards, Applied Arts and RGD Awards and his work is published in multiple national and international magazines. Udo is a member of RGD, SEGD, DX and DIAC. In 2017, Udo was elected to become a member of the distinguished Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.


Vedran Dzebic  Head of Research and Development at Entro

Vedran leads the research and development practices at Entro. His work sits at the intersection of cognitive neuroscience and environmental design. Through the use of innovative techniques and technologies such as virtual reality, computer vision and machine learning, he explores how the physical environment shapes how we think, feel and behave. By applying rigorous yet human-centred research perspectives, he advances the mandate of building stronger connections between people and place. His expertise ranges from the study of visual complexity within urban environments, to biophilic design, to the role of emerging technologies in shaping how we think about our surroundings.



This is a free event, however, reservations are required.
Please click here to REGISTER today! 


Location and Time
March 11th, 2021
Zoom meeting will start at 12 noon, speaker presentation will comment at 12:05 pm. (Zoom meeting info will be sent out with your registration confirmation)

 

Reserve your ticket here

 

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