Nightlife vous présente tour à tour les 4 blogueurs/ambassadeurs des Portes ouvertes Design Montréal, ainsi que leur itinéraire pour le week-end du 1er et 2 mai prochain.

Aujourd'hui Sean Michaels,

Sean Michaels was born in Stirling, Scotland. He is a writer and music critic, with a hidden interest in design. He writes regularly for the Guardian (UK), McSweeney's and at the song-blog Said the Gramophone, and his work has also appeared in the National Post, Brick, Maisonneuve and at Pitchfork. In 2008, Sean co-founded M60, the Montreal 60 Second Film Festival.
saidthegramophone.com

Samedi 1er mai

1. UQAM: If it's to be a weekend of design, best to orient myself with some of the city's newest designers.

2. Centre canadien d'architecture: Visions of living in space?

3. Dynamo: Never in my life have I turned down a typesetting workshop or a collection of vintage matchbooks.

4. Sid Lee: These are the people responsible for the STM's marvellous new design aeshetic.

5. GSMPRJCT: They uh designed the er very top of the Burj fucking Khalifa in Dubai!

Dimanche 2 mai

1. Urban Soland: Curious, screening of a film that's like an architectural dream.

2. Thomas Design/Toma Objects: The work of this quirky and evocative designer, which is also sometimes made of paper.

3. Atelier Punkt: What can be done with yellow bristol-board?

4. Centre des textiles contemporains de Montréal: Because I want to see if they have figured out how to make a sweater that looks like tree-bark.

Audiotopie Parcours A: Fascinated by this podcast audio-tour, conceived around listening to the hidden noises in the metro system.