We are extremely honoured and proud to be able to announce that we were chosen to design and develop the interior concept for The Spectacle Company, a new retail brand being launched in London this fall.

Quite obviously an eyeglass frame retailer, The Spectacle Company will be a very definite departure from it’s competitors. The interior space will be unique, warm and inviting, sans the generic frame displays and fluorescent lighting typically found in such stores. Beyond that our lips are sealed… for now.

Construction on the building located at the corners of Oxford and Hyde Park in London has begun. Interior finishing will follow with an expected fall opening. Woot!

We’re thrilled to be featured on Specialty Ontario, a stellar online showcase of boutique and artisan business in Ontario, Canada. Our feature can be found here.

Renderings of our proposed downtown London parking spot patios have been posted here. Here’s hoping for final approvals and implementation in time for summer!

Three new projects have been posted in our online portfolio. The Gainsborough Chiropractic Clinic, Doon Residence, and Mitchell House images have been unveiled.

We’re excited to have Nathan Albion joining us beginning on Monday. Nathan brandishes a Bachelor of Design degree with an Environmental Design Major from OCAD in Toronto. While his primary initial responsibilities will focus on design documentation, he will also be directly involved in project design development. With his passion for all things modern design (especially furniture) and his formal training he is well-equipped to contribute to the crafting of spaces at ReDesign.

We look forward to great things with our strengthened team in the midst of our current flurry of fantastic projects and those yet to come!

We’re pumped to be working on the new Polish (think shiny, not the language) Nail Bar space planning and building facade design. Working with a great historical building in the downtown core, we’ll be funking up the main floor facade in big way to better align with the soon-to-be spanking new, polished interior.

Keep a lookout for the location and completed designs in a few weeks!

We’ve just posted renderings of two projects that are currently in process.

The McCormick Canada lobby design represents our first foray into corporate design. Learning much about designing toward committee approval, our primary design concepts and elements have met with preliminary approval.

The Wave House project is an architectural and interior design project that we are extremely proud of. Our client has been absolutely incredible to work with and we’re almost as excited as he is to see the digging begin in the spring.

A few of our favourite things from the Toronto Interior Design Show 2012!

Not your grandmother's area rug!

Stools made of salvaged wood.

Vancouver design geniuses - Bocci.

Java love! The Miele built-in coffee beverage center in the new all white!

A definite mid-century modern feel to this great residential window system.

New minimalist Blanco Culina kitchen faucets.

Design Principal, Lisa feeling tile - sadly, a common occurrence.

So tactiley!

More tile for Lisa to fondle.

Lisa admiring the landscape concept space.

Coolest kitchen ever, by Bulthaup!

Detail of the level of functionality built into Bulthaup kitchens. Brilliant!

Have you seen a cooler kitchen sink? Didn't think so!

The pantry-style storage component of this Bulthaup kitchen.

A sculptural outdoor solid fuel fireplace.

Brilliant outdoor furniture.

3 dimensional tiles that we've used on a kitchen backsplash before. Bubbley!

And, we couldn't end without showcasing tile from our favourite tile supplier, Mettro Source.

Though the Wave House design is still very much in process, we are sharing the floorplan view to say that we are thrilled to be designing homes from the inside out and from the ground up. Having spent years designing complete interior renovations that frequently spilled out to additions and extensive exterior treatments, whole house design was the inspired next step.

The sustainable Wave House will be built on a large rural lot, overlooking a lake. An absolutely ideal setting that has provided no shortage of design inspiration. Several design revisions are currently being made and we will post several exterior renderings next week.

In the past several years we have repeatedly revisited the question of how to ‘give back’ to our community as effectively as we possibly can. Though we have done so sporadically, we haven’t had a unifying vision to work from… until now. ‘Design Does Good’ is our new charitable platform and we’re thrilled to launch it.

Initial initiatives of ‘Design Does Good’ include:

• Local Lunch
• Studio Events
• Donated Design Services

Local Lunch

• Monthly lunch for two in our studio – an opportunity to connect and to table/discuss opportunities for Design Does Good
• Lunch from a local (downtown) restaurant will be provided by ReDesign
• Participants will be selected from and by our Facebook Fans and Twitter Followers
• Bi-monthly Local Lunch participants will be Fans or Followers chosen randomly and announced on Facebook and Twitter
• Alternating months we will host one or two members of the following groups, as recommended by Fans and Followers:
• Local politicians
• Local charity representatives
• Local business leaders
• Fanshawe College Interior/Architectural Design Students
• Fanshawe College Interior/Architectural Design Professors

Studio Events

We feel very fortunate to work in a dynamic, adaptable downtown studio space. We also realize that while it is a work space, it has much broader potential. As such we will be opening our space up to various charitable organizations for meetings and functions at no cost. Additionally, we will be hosting fund raisers in the space in support of various charitable initiatives.

We will be posting frequently regarding the available meeting space and accepting subsequent applications. While we will not be able to accommodate all applicants, we will do our best to be as generous as possible.

Donated Design Services

Ultimately, this is where we feel that we are best able to give back to our local community. In fact, we envision both the Local Lunches and Studio Events will serve to surface ideal opportunities for us to donate design services. While they will create opportunities for critical conversations, our goal is to have them lead to our greatest opportunity to give back.

We believe strongly that ENVIRONMENT INFORMS EXPERIENCE. We also know that ENVIRONMENT INFORMS EFFECTIVENESS. As such, we seek opportunities to provide inspirational spaces to individuals and groups who would not typically have the means to invest in design. With such projects we will also seek to rally supporters who will help to realize the construction of such spaces.

As with the Studio Events initiative, we will be seeking out those opportunities where we feel that we can offer the greatest impact. Social media channels will be the primary method that we use to seek out these opportunities.

In order to take immediate action we are leaping into this initiative before all aspects have been fully developed. On the horizon is a Design Does Good blog (as suggested by Ed Jackman) that will be dedicated entirely to this initiative. We envision a much broader reach for Design Does Good in the future and will be approaching other designers and firms to join us in giving back as a design community. In the meantime our initiatives will be perpetuated through social media.

Launch!