It’s been way too long since I’ve posted a Designer Desk feature. Admittedly, this bums me out because meeting and shooting the work-spaces of local Vancouver designers, makers, and artists is something that I love to do! Few things re-charge my design...
It’s funny how things work out sometimes. I met artist Jamie Smith when when I first moved to Vancouver, bonding at a business networking event over our collective confusion as to how each of us had ended up there (you can always tell another creative type in a...
Last month we capped off Buildex with a Designer Happy Hour event at the Heritage Ideas Centre, hosted by Heritage Furniture and MT Square Interiors. I have to admit that i didn’t even make it to Buildex this year but I feel that I still deserved to acknowledge...
Holy moly, I am way behind on my posts over here! January was a banner month for MãK Interiors so everything other than client work (including blog posts, household chores, and overall sanity) took a back seat. Now it’s February somehow, and I’m catching...
This past year has been a great one for me and MãK Interiors. We completed some great projects for incredible clients, we started the Designer Desk series on the blog, hosted a Designer Happy Hour nearly every month (and started documenting them on the blog too), took...
We kicked off the season of holiday parties with our final Designer Happy Hour event of the year. December 3rd we filled Chinatown’s This Open Space for the BEHOLDER Pop-up shop, hosted by Artist, Dana Mooney & Kelsey Adair of Bare Knitware. Other local...
As you may recall, we did a couple of features on Prototype, a design competition at this year’s IDSwest show featuring new locally-designed products for the home (read Behind the Scenes at Prototype and the Winners of Prototype). The winner of this juried...
It was a dark and stormy night but we were too warm and cozy at Gastown’s Portside Pub to notice. I, for one, was very happy grab a few pints and chow down on nachos with the Designer Happy Hour gang while the rain came down outside. Thanks to Max and the...
I’ve got a mystery to solve folks! The people at Notable.ca called to tell me that someone anonymously nominated me for the 2014 Vancouver Notable Awards, recognizing young professionals who are dedicated to the community. I gave them some info about my...
I was in the Bottega Lounge at IDS west, sipping on a glass of bubbly and admiring the gorgeous light fixture suspended above, made up of perfectly illuminated circles floating up towards the ceiling. On the table to my right; a card from Matthew McCormick Design Inc....
