![Bio photo for Castor Design, who are currently at the Toronto Interior Design Show, displaying their works at the 10 Innovative Canadian Designers exhibit.
How could I not love a design studio from my home city of Toronto whose official bio pic portrays its principal designers as big-headed beavers [the Canadian symbol for which the studio is named], uses punk bands like Be Your Own Pet for the video of their shipping container project and then calls one of their post-modern creations This Is Not A Fu**ing Droog Light?
If you know about my love for Toronto and its edgy artist culture, my previous life as a music publicist and alternative DJ, my obsession with converted shipping containers and the fact that Droog Design are one of my all-time fave collectives… well, then, it’s obvious to you that I am head-over-heels Castor-smitten. Really now, who can say that they love all of the above and have found it all in one genius studio in their own city? It’s almost too good to be true.
Under those happy beaver heads are three dynamic talents with a quirky sense of humour: Brian Richer, Ryan Taylor and Kei Ng, with diverse backgrounds ranging from stone carving and architecture to digital media and film art direction. “From conception, fabrication to installation the studio combines technical knowledge, craftsmanship and design sense to create uncommon objects.”
Full disclosure to the Castor crew: I did think of Droog when I first saw your fixture and laughed aloud when I saw its fitting name. However, when I examined your overall work, I was convinced: the original talent and Canadian influences are clearly there. I was done with comparisons. Thanks to you, I need not go Dutch all of the time.](http://media.tumblr.com/JEVcJTTe65rgl8qeft9GdDRw_500.jpg)
Bio photo for Castor Design, who are currently at the Toronto Interior Design Show, displaying their works at the 10 Innovative Canadian Designers exhibit.
How could I not love a design studio from my home city of Toronto whose official bio pic portrays its principal designers as big-headed beavers [the Canadian symbol for which the studio is named], uses punk bands like Be Your Own Pet for the video of their shipping container project and then calls one of their post-modern creations This Is Not A Fu**ing Droog Light?
If you know about my love for Toronto and its edgy artist culture, my previous life as a music publicist and alternative DJ, my obsession with converted shipping containers and the fact that Droog Design are one of my all-time fave collectives… well, then, it’s obvious to you that I am head-over-heels Castor-smitten. Really now, who can say that they love all of the above and have found it all in one genius studio in their own city? It’s almost too good to be true.
Under those happy beaver heads are three dynamic talents with a quirky sense of humour: Brian Richer, Ryan Taylor and Kei Ng, with diverse backgrounds ranging from stone carving and architecture to digital media and film art direction. “From conception, fabrication to installation the studio combines technical knowledge, craftsmanship and design sense to create uncommon objects.”
Full disclosure to the Castor crew: I did think of Droog when I first saw your fixture and laughed aloud when I saw its fitting name. However, when I examined your overall work, I was convinced: the original talent and Canadian influences are clearly there. I was done with comparisons. Thanks to you, I need not go Dutch all of the time.
2 months ago