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Bevel: Canadian Interiors Conversations

Bevel is a place where we step away from the photographs and talk with industry leaders and thinkers about interesting ideas and issues facing the design world today. Bevel is the podcast extension of Canadian Interiors, the longest running interior design magazine in Canada, published since 1964.

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Episode 27 - Examination Alternative Project: An...

Bevel: Canadian Interiors Conversations ·

2025/08/18

In this episode of Bevel we dive into a major shift in the regulation of our profession here in Ontario, the kind that could reshape how one qualifies as a Registered Interior Designer.In 2023, ARIDO, the Association of Registered Interior Designers of Ontario, initiated the Examination Alternative Project, or EAP. At its core, this project responds to an evolving regulatory landscape — one that demands a licensing process that is not only rigorous and accountable but also equitable, transparent,

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01:30:57

Episode 26 - Rebuilding the Office Through...

Bevel: Canadian Interiors Conversations ·

2024/06/19

The data has been around for a long time and is not only undisputed but commonly accepted: that the built environment is responsible for approximately 42 per cent of annual global CO2 emissions. This is bad – really bad – and we are now seeing Western governments stumble over each other with promises to address the problem. The U.K. government, for example, has just announced a commitment to reducing carbon emissions by 78 per cent by 2035, and to become Net Zero Carbon by 2050, and will do so by

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00:57:29

Episode 25 - Behind the Curtain with a Production...

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2024/05/09

Every scene you see when watching a movie or television show that isn’t a documentary was purposely thought out and designed by someone. And the vast majority of times, that someone is a Production Designer. Yet while the results of their efforts are visible right there on the screen for everyone to see, a fog shrouds the magnitude of the production designer’s role to weave together imagination and technique, seamlessly blending illusion with reality.With discipline, precision and fiscal

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01:20:57

Episode 24 - Radical Positivity Through Communication...

Bevel: Canadian Interiors Conversations ·

2023/12/20

“The world is terrible. The world is fantastic. Both statements are true.”This is a line that opens one of the chapters of Stefan Sagmeister’s new book, and its pragmatic, no-nonsense tone is a perfect indicator of what readers will be presented with: a fact-driven exploration of human progress throughout the ages. Yet the book’s title, Now Is Better, reveals where Stefan’s heart lies and what his true intentions are: to in his words “foster radical positivity” and nudge audiences towards choosing

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01:00:16

Episode 23 - Emerging Tech Meets Design

Bevel: Canadian Interiors Conversations ·

2023/10/17

Chatter is exploding about advancements in AI. Every industry is sitting up and taking notice, including, of course, the A&D industry. These creatives are intrigued not only by how AI can help design teams by not only reducing overall project lead times, but also expanding creative discovery by memorizing insights from thousands, if not millions, of previous project data. Software such as DALL-E 2, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion are seen as tools to speed up sketching and other ideation

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00:56:23

Episode 22 - Digging into the Craft of Trend Spotting...

Bevel: Canadian Interiors Conversations ·

2023/04/03

It is a well-known fact that the media loves trends reports. After all, they give us so much to report on: experts providing clairvoyant insights into what they think will happen in the near future; pointing out observable changes in people’s behaviour; identifying key drivers, challenges, threats and opportunities that are influencing industries; and so on. All professions and industries employ trends reports, and the interior design industry is no exception. For example, just recently the American

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01:05:58

Episode 21 - Robotics in Design w/ David Correa

Bevel: Canadian Interiors Conversations ·

2023/01/30

Robotic automation has changed virtually every industry. Their ubiquity has moved from the assembly line to the house, from multi-axis manipulator arms to cute little vacuums and many other examples in between. I say “virtually” every industry because there is a major one that still lags far behind in embracing the precision, reliability and endless potential of robotics and automation: the making of buildings. Given how this is an industry notorious for inefficiency and waste – problems put into

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00:56:05

Episode 20 - Web3's Potential for Designers w/ Digby

Bevel: Canadian Interiors Conversations ·

2023/01/03

When you hear words like “blockchain” do you immediately conjure up images of Minecraft, that video game your 14-year-old son plays all day? Or when you encounter the phrase “metaverse” do you instantly hear Keanu Reeves utter his famous “Woah!” line from The Matrix? Don’t feel bad, you’re not alone. To many, they feel like buzzwords that gamers and tech savants love to throw around on their discussion boards. But in fact, they are foundational pieces of a larger tech shift that we are in the midst

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01:17:53

Episode 19 - Auto-Ethnography in Design w/ Michael...

Bevel: Canadian Interiors Conversations ·

2022/10/25

Ask a designer what the role of a designer is, and you will get as diverse a spectrum of answers as you will designers. Is it one of creative expression or rigorously conducted research? Is it engineering over artistry, or vice versa? Can it be everything, all at once? Many designers will chafe even at that, saying not taking a position is part of the problem of our times. Designers taking a position, at times referred to as authorship, has always been fertile ground for debate between critics,

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01:11:15

Episode 18 - Understand Your Design Firm’s Financials...

Bevel: Canadian Interiors Conversations ·

2022/09/19

When small and midsized design firms try to strengthen their firms, they tend to fixate on the “Practice of Design”: doing better work. However, the work itself isn’t the problem. Getting stronger requires a shift of focus to the “Design of Practice.” This foundational philosophy is expressed early and often in Rick J. Linley’s new book, titled Scoreboard Your Practice: 7 Numbers to Understand Your Design Firm’s Financials. His focus on the “Design of Practice” is more than just a clever turn of

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01:00:35

Episode 17 - Re-examining the Industrial Design...

Bevel: Canadian Interiors Conversations ·

2022/08/01

“As the nature of designing and making physical objects – particularly products for workplaces – continues to evolve, the way we approach that work needs to evolve with it,” said industrial designer Lee Fletcher this spring while announcing the launch of a new venture, called Fletcher Scott Studio, based in Toronto. Lee is a founding partner in Fig40, a product design studio also based in Toronto and in which he is still actively involved with partner Terence Woodside. But with Fletcher Scott

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01:01:25

Episode 16 - Writing a Designers' Manifesto w/ Bulent...

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2022/06/27

Designers have been drafting design manifestos (DM) for over a hundred years with varying degrees of success and fidelity in their professional practices. According to author Alexandra Franzen, a DM is “A written statement where you publicly declare your intentions, opinions and vision,” yet despite such a succinct characterization there appear to be gaps in understanding when it comes to the features which distinguish an exemplary DM and the function it serves (if any) in contemporary professional

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01:11:16

Episode 15 - Interior Design in Public Transit w/...

Bevel: Canadian Interiors Conversations ·

2022/05/13

Anyone who has spent a considerable amount of time in Toronto has on some level developed a relationship with public transit. But then there are those who have spent a really significant amount of time in the city, someone like me, who has spent their whole life here – was born here, grew up here, has gone through the various stages of life here – those people have an intimate relationship with public transit, specifically the TTC: we develop associations with details such as going through

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01:23:00

Episode 14: A Future for Architecture Criticism? w/...

Bevel: Canadian Interiors Conversations ·

2022/04/26

There was a time in the mid- to late-20th century when arts critics held serious power in swaying the consumption habits of the general public. Film and music were two realms in the popular press where this was particularly notable, with critics such as Pauline Kael and Roger Ebert for film or Lester Bangs and Robert Christgau for music writing reviews and essays in publications that many believed could “make or break a career.” Then as the early 21st century saw the internet unleash a tidal wave of

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01:10:28

Episode 13 - The Design Industry’s Representation...

Bevel: Canadian Interiors Conversations ·

2022/02/21

There is ‘saying,’ and there is ‘doing.’ Both are important, and in many cases one can’t happen without the other. But eventually the latter must happen, otherwise the former has been abandoned and rendered meaningless. We all saw the slow emergence of conversations about diversity in representation kicked into high gear during the summer of 2020, as companies and organizations queued up to give their official Statements on Diversity and Inclusion in the face of intense scrutiny coming from social

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01:05:56

Episode 12 - The Designer & Product Rep Relationship...

Bevel: Canadian Interiors Conversations ·

2021/12/29

Architects and interior designers specify thousands of architectural and interior products, building materials and related goods, representing billions of dollars in sales. But how these goods and products register on the radar of creative professionals and ultimately get specified is a major part of the industry that rarely gets discussed. Design firms have both formal and informal procedures when working with product industry representatives, and like everything else these days, things are

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00:44:38

Episode 11 - Canada's Evolving Architectural Identity...

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2021/11/30

“What is Canadian architecture? The question has often been posed, with no single satisfactory response. Understandably so, as Canada is not only vast but geographically and climatically diverse across its provinces and territories,” says author Leslie Jen in the introduction to her new book, titled Canadian Architecture: Evolving a Cultural Identity. In it, she explores several significant building projects in urban and rural environments that influence our interactions with each other and the

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01:01:50

Episode 10 - Why Designers Must Pivot w. Johanna...

Bevel: Canadian Interiors Conversations ·

2021/08/10

Although we have been in the COVID trenches for what seems like an incessantly long period of time, there now appears to be light at the end of this tunnel. With vaccination rates on a speedy incline and phased re-openings across the provinces, things are slowly returning to normal. But we’re not out of the woods yet, and even when the pandemic is officially declared over its effects will be long-lasting. Which is why we are sitting down with Johanna Hoffmann, CEO of Oomph Group, to discuss why your

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00:47:30

Episode 9 - The Financialization of Architecture w....

Bevel: Canadian Interiors Conversations ·

2021/06/09

“Architecture is not the result of finance capitalism but rather is finance capitalism” / “Just as architecture has helped produce finance capitalism, finance capitalism has helped produce architecture.” Those two passages appear early in Matthew Soules’s new book, titled Icebergs, Zombies, and the Ultra Thin, which serves as an indictment of how finance capitalism changes not only architectural forms, but the very nature of our cities and societies. The impetus for this book arose from the 2008

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00:52:16

Episode 8 - Cinema of Design w. Kyle Bergman

Bevel: Canadian Interiors Conversations ·

2021/05/13

From their inception, both architecture and filmmaking have been forms of representational art. The closer one looks at these respective disciplines, the more their overlapping attributes become glaringly obvious. Both manipulate time, space, movement, light, colour and sound; in the case of cinema, to reinforce the narrative of a film; and in the case of architecture, to manifest the ideas behind a design. They both engage the viewer, one by projecting moving images while the viewer is still, the

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