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PUBLIC ART

2011
Borden Park Public Art Competition – Edmonton, AB

Shortlisted
York Community Rec Centre Public Art Competition – Toronto, ON
Runner Up


EXHIBITIONS

2013
Toronto Design Week: Shiny Pretty Things Group Exhibition
Cooper Cole Gallery in Toronto, ON
Annual curated exhibition featuring some of Canada’s most talented designers, always in a new venue and with a different theme. Presented Pretty in Prison Sink.

2012
Toronto Design Week: Associates Group Exhibition
Show and Tell Gallery in Toronto, ON
Curated exhibition featuring some of Canada’s most talented designers, Presented at Show and Tell Gallery. Presented Lightweight and Shady Shade lamp.
Moto: Group Exhibition
Domison Store in Toronto, ON
An exhibition of products by designers from Montreal and Toronto. Presented Stalac table.

2011
Pin-Up Exhibition
Mercer Union Art Gallery in Toronto, ON
An exhibition of 50 posters alongside the personal poster collection of former Art Gallery of Ontario Curator of Modern Art, Michael Parke-Taylor. Presented McNasty Mansion poster.
Scotiabank Nuit Blanche
Saint Michael’s Hospital lobby in Toronto, ON
An art installation commissioned by curator Shirley Madill for the all night public art festival in Toronto. Presented Elephant in the Room.
The Cheaper Show
The concept for this annual show in Vancouver is: 200 artists, 400 pieces, $200 each. Presented McNasty Mansion.
Stellar Living Contemporary Art & Design Auction
Mercer Union Art Gallery in Toronto, ON
The fourth installment of Mercer Union’s curated Living exhibition and auction series. Artists and designers from a variety of fields were asked to provide new models for how we live. Auctioned off Log Chop Bench.

2010
Toronto Interior Design Show
Prototype Exhibition
The showcase featured Canadian and International designers exhibiting one-off and custom collections of designed objects in a gallery-like installation. Presented Stalac table.


LECTURES

2014
Pechakucha Night – Vancouver, BC
David Long presented a selection of the work we have done since founding our practice (TPOED).

2012
Toronto Design Exchange: Making It Pechakucha
20 makers each have 5 minutes to walk through one recent project from conception to presentation.

2011
Alberta College of Art and Design Fall Lecture Series and class workshops
Presentation of our current body of work as part of the fall lecture series and direc-tion of two concept design workshops for object design students.


AWARDS

2013
Toronto Design Week Offsite Juror’s Choice Award
For the Pretty in Prison sink

2012
2 x Design Lines Love Tags
A total of 100 tags were awarded throughout the Toronto Design Week by Design Lines. We received two of them for our Lightweight and Shady Shade pieces. Article written by David Leblanc regarding a home addition we designed.

2010
Canadian Interiors Magazine  Best of Canada
Winner of Canadian product design of the year for the Stalac table.


PUBLICATIONS

2012
The Globe and Mail  “Adding On, Adding Value”
by David Leblanc
Friday August 31, 2012, Real Estate Section
ACS (Artpower Creative Space)
Issue 1, September 2012
Design Lines Magazine
Summer 2012
La Presse Montréal “Boom Design au Canada”
by Lucie Lavigne
Saturday February 4, 2012, Section 3 Maison

2010
IdN Magazine  F*cking Recycle
An article on our practice featuring our Stalac Table and Hunter’s Heaven collectible.
Canadian Interiors
March 2010