Quietly

Welcome to the Butt end of Design

Kirsten White created a "welcome mat" from over 7,000 used cigarette butts. Kirsten explains the challenges of using butts as a material for design, and the UNUSUAL processs and procurement that the project demanded.


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About Writing on Canadian Design

Recorded by Rachel Gotlieb, the experience and the rewards that a Canadian writer finds in the topic of Canadian design.


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Design in Canada

More perspective from Rachel on Design in Canada and the importance of materials, history and industrialization influenced the methods of Canadian designers.


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Rachel Gotlieb

Rachel has been a very important member of the Canadian design community for many years. Rachel has articluated the importance of Canadian design in several articles as well as her book "Canadian Design". In this file, Rachel offers listeners some background on the book.

Thank you Rachel for all your contributions!


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How to I contribute to Quietly?

There are several ways to contribute to Quietly.  You can submit your rants and raves to Quietly's  answer to "Speakers Corner". Hop on your soap box and call 214-231-2915. The PIN number for Quietly is 187133637#. The automated fellow will instruct you from that point forward. As far as we are concerned, leaving a message is the same damn thing as saying "I understand and read the rules". If you have not read these rules, please read them first so you know what you are agreeing to.

For technology and username whatnot reasons, if you select "record and publish" you will be making your recording initially available to Klinik. Your mother will not hear it and neither will anyone else....until we go move it to the "active" pile which is when you will officially be a part of our digital design radio experiment. Beakers up!

Bev Hisey at ICFF

Bev Hisey will be showing her die cut textile designs at the ICFF....She brought Matt with her, so we are forever grateful. Life made sure that Bev's life was very very interesting this week so we are especially glad that she could make it! Bev is part of the "hot Designs Cool Country" exhibit in the 4th aisle...or check out BevHisey.com

What the heck am I suposed to say or write?

It is really up to you what you want to say....but to get the ball rolling (and we will see where it goes from there)

What are you working on right now....are you trying to find a store in Paris to carry your handbags?  Send us pics and we can put those up with your post! Maybe someone reading will be able to reccomend something.....

When it is 1:30am and you are exhausted...do you know what makes you turn back to your project and fiddle some more?

If you were told today that you could have a wicked design gig in NY or London, but the catch is you could never ever come back to Canada.....would you go? what would you miss most? If you would stay...what makes this place so irresistable?

What do you wish you had learned in school?

What is the best lesson you have learned in your design work?

Do you think there is an advantage to being in Canada as a designer?

Playing tourguide for a day....what is your favorite spot where you live?

What are your friends working on? Wanna give them a plug and tell people to check out their work? Give a friend or collegue a quick standing ov.

The scary part....the rules

My friend Crawford is 4 years old and has advised me that he knows many "bad words".  We are not against these words, but if every other word is a "bad word" we will assume that you are just testing that the system is working "check, check, two, three, check" and did not mean for it to "go live".  If you leave a message, you are giving us permission to publish it. If you call us yelling that you want us to take it down....we might publish that too.

Outside that, really, let's just have some fun with this and see where it takes us eh?

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Vast Spaces Inspire Minimal Materials

Toronto designer Kirsten white offers her thoughtful perspective on how the landscape of Canada relates to her work.


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