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SPACING: subway buttons receive award
The American graphic design magazine HOW Design named Spacing‘s Toronto subway station button collection the third best wearable item in their 2005...
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Eglinton Station Gets Arty
Toronto’s Live With Culture campaign is taking artwork and performance out of the galleries and theatres and bringing it to where people live, work...
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Go Leafs
On this last of the hot and sticky evenings I was riding down Yonge to the YMCA, thinking it was unusually quiet. I had the streets to myself — or...
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Infiltrations’s book Access All Areas
Even though Ninjalicous, the creative force behind Infiltration, passed away in late August he is still helping us go to places where we are told not to...
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Wireless Toronto in St. Lawrence Market
Wireless Toronto is partnering with the South Market Tenants Association and the St. Lawrence Market Complex to bring free wireless Internet access to the...
By Matthew Blackett -
Spacing reports from Winnipeg
I’m out in Winnipeg leading a workshop on magazine design for Spacing‘s national distributor Magazines Canada. I’ve only been here a...
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NYC & SF transit don’t like iPod subway maps
In late August, the Spacing Wire reported on the wonderful website iPod Subway Maps. Designer William Bright created images of 12 cities’ subway...
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Billboards and art in Halifax
Whenever I see a billboard or ad that has little or no information on it, I suspect a sneaky but clever ad campaign. Contact, the photo festival that...
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Take the Tooker
With the price of gas rising, pollution increasing, obesity growing, parking diminishing, & congestion clogging, you would expect government to take...
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Human River on Garrison Creek
The Human River — a walk along the hidden Garrison Creek Sunday October 2nd 2005, with different starting points along route The Garrison Creek...
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Public Toilet summit
Yes, there is a conference for every possible topic or vocation out there. The World Toilet Summit is wrapping up today in Belfast, Ireland. One of the...
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Big blooming bunny art
Spacing‘s next issue, due out in early November, is all about street and public art, so we are becoming increasingly aware of the controversy...
By Matthew Blackett
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered