News

dorkenwald-spitzer presents: traveler's tale
at the exhibition fashion no no, curated by Paola Poletto,
23th January to 8 th of March, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto.

Products
Shadow Furniture, material: paper, light source, 2007
No - Furniture, material: paper, folding screen, 2007
Softhouse, material: hightech jersey, 2006
The Tallest Man, material: t-shirt, droog design collection, Amsterdam, Holland, 2005
Pinfurniture, material: high tech jersey, prototype, 2004
Wallfurniture, material: wallpaper, 2002 - ongoing
distributor: the Collection, Paris, France, manufacturer: Berlintapete, Berlin, Germany

Editions
- TRANS-EDITION / PAPER OBJECTS, 2008

Our Online Store
http://dorkenwald-spitzer.com/store/

Retail
- The Collection, 33 Rue de Poitou,75003 Paris, France
- Art Metropole, 788 King Street West,Toronto M5V 1N6, Canada
- 5qm.de , Gladbacher Str. 35, 50672 Köln, Germany
- Hollie Sweet , 535 Church Street, Richmond 31212 Melbourne, Australia

Commissioned Art Projects
- customized mural Berker / Loftcube at the tradeshow light+building 2008, Frankfurt, Germany
- The Singing House, sound installation, Nuit Blanche, Gladstone Hotel , Toronto, Canada, 2007
- customized ceiling mural Berker-Heaven at the tradeshow light+building 2004, Frankfurt, Germany
client: Berker GmbH & CoKG, light switches and systems, Schalksmühle, Germany
in collaboration with the architecture company Schmidhuber + Partner GbR, Munich, Germany
award: nominated for adam award 2004

Exhibitions
- Radiant Dark presented by MADE, Toronto, Canada, 2008
- Aaverati , SaloneSatellite Projects from Inception to Production, Milano, Italy, 2007.
- Prototype, No-Furniture, Toronto, Canada, 2007
- Interieur 06, Design for Europe, Softhouse, Kortrijk, Belgium, 2006
- Kraut und Zucker,The Tallest Man, Basel, Switzerland, 2006
- Droogdesign T-shirt competition on show, droog gallery, droog@home, Amsterdam, Holland, 2006
- Hot Design. Cool Country Canada in New York, ICFF 2005, Convention Center, Design Exchange, Booth 452
- Talents Ambiente, February 2005, lifestyles trade show, Frankfurt, Germany
- The Future in Black and White, 10 years Design Exchange, DX Toronto, Canada, 2004
- Salone Satelite at salone del mobile, Milan, Italy, 2004
- Spots * at Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany, 2004
- Inspired by Cologne 04, the show of design talents at imm, Cologne, Germany, 2004
- Perspektiven 03, furniture design competition and exhibition,
Wohnsinn, Basel, Switzerland, 2003

Awards
- I.D. Annual Design Review, Consumer Products, The Tallest Man, honorable mention ,
New York, USA, 2007
- droog design t-shirt 2005 competition, Amsterdam, Holland, 2005, overall winner with
“The Tallest Man”
- Perspektiven 03, furniture design competition and exhibition, Wohnsinn, Basel, Switzerland, 2003, honorable mention Wallfurniture

Editorial
“Letter from Toronto”, Page, Design Magazine Germany, January 2006

Publications Magazine
I.D. Magazine, Design Annual Review, Jul/Aug 2007 (USA)
Design Lines, September 2006 (Toronto)
WohnDesign!, January 2006 (Germany)
Watch, May 2005 (Netherland)
Elle Decoration, March 2005 (Germany)
Lufthansa exclusive, December 2004 (Germany)
Page, Nov. 2004 (Germany)
Surface, Sept. 2004 (USA)
Mezzanine, August 2004 (Russia)
Casamica, June 2004 (Italy)
Elle Decoration, November 2003 (France)
Intramuros, June 2003 (France)
Blueprint, June 2003 (England)
Azure, Jul/Aug 2003 (Canada)
Form, 189 3/2003 (Germany)

Publications Catalogs
Avverati A dream come true, 2007 (Italy)
A Human Touch, droog-design, 2006 (The Netherlands)
Geht es auch, Anual Report, HfG Offenbach, 2006 (Germany)
Issentials_04, imm cologne 2004 (Germany)
Berker Image Book, 2004, winner of "2004 good design award" from the chicago athenaeum and best of "2004 if communication design award" (berker imagebook), creative director: Thomas Biswanger

Further links
http://www.hfg-offenbach.de
http://www.artmetropole.com
http://www.workworthdoing.com
http://desiretoinspire.blogspot.com
http://www.produzentin.com
http://www.canadiandesignresource.ca

Teaching
2006 Think Tank 3rd year, design department, Ontario College for Art and Design, OCAD,Toronto, Canada
2006 Packaging Design, Schoolofdesign, George Brown College, Toronto, Canada
2005 Think Tank 2nd year, design department, Ontario College for Art and Design, Toronto, Canada
2005 design workshops “Across the Lines”, Schoolofdesign / George Brown College, Toronto, Canada

Collaboration
- talk20, Sept. 2007, Toronto, Canada, http://www.talk20.org
- with workworthdoing, Wallfurniture-charette, making a product more sustainable, July 2004, Toronto, Canada, http://www.workworthdoing.com

About us

Sara Dorkenwald
2007- 2008 self employed Designer, Germany + Canada
2005 - 2006 Teacher, Ontario College for Art and Design, Toronto, Canada
2002 - 2004 designer at Bruce Mau Design, Toronto, Canada
1999 - 2001 art director for the European design magazine form, Germany
1999 M. Des in visual communication at HfG, University of Design and Art, Offenbach,Germany

Ruth Spitzer
2008 -2009 Visiting Designer, Syracuse University, USA
2005 - 2007 Teacher, Ontario College for Art and Design, Toronto, Canada
2005 visual artist grant, Ontario Arts Council, Canada
1999 - 2002 specialised on information architecture, Germany
1999 M. Des in product design at HfG, University of Design and Art, Offenbach, Germany
1992 founder and member of the art group "Muttertag", Frankfurt am Main, Germany
1990 - 1992 shoemaker at the German Opera Berlin and Staatstheater Darmstadt, Germany

dorkenwald-spitzer

Ruth Spitzer, Sarah Dorkenwald
95 Gore Vale Avenue
Toronto,ON M6J 2R5, Canada
Phone 001 416 703 2479

design@dorkenwald-spitzer.com