Designers of the Year is Western Living magazine’s annual competition for designers from across Western Canada. We’re thrilled every year at the amount of talent to be found in the categories of architecture, interior, fashion, furniture, industrial, maker and landscape design. Winners, selected each year by a panel of celebrated industry judges, are featured in our September issue. Learn more about our Designers of the Year competition.

Architectural Design

2008: Measured Architecture
2009: McFarlane Green Biggar
2010: Marc Boutin
2011: BattersbyHowat
2012: Lang Wilson
2013: Cedric Burgers
2014: AA Robins Architect
2015: Measured Architecture
2016: Design-Built
2017: Campos Studio
2018: McLeod Bovell
2019: Campos Studio
2020: Burgers Architecture
2021: McLeod Bovell
2022: Measured Architecture
2023: SMStudio
2024: Measured Architecture
2025: MA+HG

Arthur Erickson Memorial Award

2011: 5468796 Architecture
2012: Public Architecture
2013: Lanefab
2014: McLeod Bovell
2015: MAA Studio
2016: Leckie Studio
2017: MoDA
2018: Gates Suter Architects
2019: Studio North
2020: RUF Project
2021: Vallely Architecture
2022: Scott Posno
2023: Bioi
2024: BLA Design Group
2025: Laura Killam

Interior Design

2008: Evoke International Design and Juli Hodgson (tie)
2009: Mitchell Freedland
2010: Alda Pereira
2011: BattersbyHowat
2012: Juli Hodgson
2013: Robert Bailey
2014: AA Robins Architect
2015: Splyce Design
2016: Douglas Cridland
2017: Project 22 Design
2018: Juli Hodgson
2019: Evoke International Design
2020: Measured Architecture
2021: Amanda Hamilton Interior Design
2022: PlaidFox Studio
2023: Falken Reynolds
2024: Sophie Burke
2025: Bidgood

Robert Ledingham Memorial Award

2013: Sophie Burke
2014: Atmosphere Interior Design
2015: Kevin Mitchell
2016: Falken Reynolds Interiors
2017: Stephanie Brown
2018: Andrea Rodman
2019: Gaile Guevara Studio
2020: One Seed Architecture + Interiors
2021: Amanda Evans Interiors
2022: Studio Roslyn
2023: Knight Varga Interiors
2024: Brianna Hughes
2025: &daughters

Eco Design

2008: Red Flag Design
2009: This Is It 
2010: Cedric Burgers
2011: Contexture Design
2012: Manasc Isaac
2013: CEI Architecture
2014: AA Robins Architect
2015: JWT Architecture

Fashion Design

2008: Anna Kosturova
2009: Konzuk
2010: Pyrrha
2011: Obakki
2012: Marie Khouri
2013: Obakki
2014: Redfish Kids
2015: Duly Equipped
2016: Truvelle
2017: Claudia Schulz
2018: Truvelle
2019: Béton Brut
2020: Irene Rasetti
2021: Becki Chan
2022: Vestige
2023: Noren Studio
2024: Jeanie Andronyk
2025: Andrea Blais

Furniture Design

2008: Matthew Kroeker
2009: This is It
2010: Izm
2011: Niels Bendtson, MTH Woodworks (TIE)
2012: Shawn Place
2013: Brent Comber Originals
2014: MTH Woodworks
2015: Sholto Scruton
2016: Steven Pollock
2017: Kate Duncan
2018: Willow and Stump
2019: Jeff Martin Joinery
2020: Thom Fougere
2021: Origins
2022: Nicholas Purcell
2023: Alan Hung Studio
2024: (tie) Ffabb Home and Ben Barber
2025: Marrimor Objects

Industrial Design

2009: This is It
2010: Rollout
2011: Omer Arbel
2012: Marie Khouri
2013: Loyal Loot
2014: Lukas Peet
2015: Thom Fougere
2016: Matthew McCormick
2017: Annie Tung
2018: Ko Júbilo
2019: Zoë Pawlak
2020: Onetwosix
2021: Caine Heintzman
2022: Workbench Studio
2023: Propellor
2024: New Format Studio
2025: Annaka Hoelk

Landscape Design

2008: Space2Place Design
2009: Senga Landscape Architecture
2010: Victoria Wood Studio
2011: Paul Sangha
2012: Anne Talbot-Kelly
2013: Considered Design
2014: Green Over Grey
2017: Straub Thurmayr
2018: BattersbyHowat
2019: Planta Design Studio
2020: JWT Architecture and Planning
2021: Donohoe Living Landscapes
2022: Planta Landscape
2023: Donohoe Living Landscapes
2024: Alexander Suvajac

Maker

2016: Cathy Terepoki
2017: Mezzaluna Studio
2018: Kalika Bowlby
2019: Natalie Gerber
2020: Scandinavia Wolf Designs
2021: Mtharu
2022: Origins
2023: Tanvi Arora
2024: BJB Woodshop
2025: Andrea Copp Ceramics

Ones to Watch

2008: Walker McKinley, Rod Whitman, Zachary Fluker, Colleen Baran
2009: Molo, Catherine Regehr, Sabrina Hill, Shaun Ford, Marc Boutin, Bruce Wilson, Claudia Baik
2010: Ryan Scarff, The Sky is the Limit, Christian Woo, Contexture, Justine Brooks, Lanefab
2011: Richard Davignon, John Greg Ball, Dina Gonzalez Mascaro, Robert Faulkner, Jenny Martin, Green Over Grey, Shape Architecture
2012: RUF Project, Atmosphere Interior Design, JWT Architecture and Planning, Manitobah Mukluks, Palette Industries, Cory Barkman, Straub Thurmayr
2013: Rectangle Design, Amanda Hamilton Interior Design, One Seed Architecture and Interior, Eliza Faulkner, Sticks and Stones, Jordan Tomnuk, JWT Architecture
2014: Campos Leckie Studio, Marrimor, Fat Crow Design, Poppy Barley, Jeff Martin Joinery, Concrete Cat
2015: Studio Bup, Mtharu, Truvelle, AdrianMartinus
2016: Wendy W. Fok, Autonomous Furniture Collective, Lara Presber, OneTwoSix Design
2017: Becki Chan, Ko Júbilo, Claire Kennedy Design, Studio Brovhn, Rachel Saunders 
2018: Jamie Gentry, Studio North, Shipway Living Design, Green Elevations, Benjamin Oswald
2019: New Format Studio, Grandi, Tantalus Design, Origins and Biophilia Design Collective
2020: Parts and Labor, Acacia Landscape, Nikki Alagha Design, Henry Sun
2021: Tracey Cameron, Misheo, Same Old Studio, Tafui
2022: EVStenroos, Eden Projects, Ffab Home, Shipway Living, A Deumain
2023: Fyoocher, Alexander Suvajac Landscape, Daly Co, Ko Jubilo, Quake Studio
2024: Studio Heidle, Pablo Mariano, Orii Design 
2025: Supermarket Studio, Sfossils, Kerfwork Furniture

Design Icons

2024: Alda Pereira and Douglas Cridland
2025: Paul Lavoie Interior Design, Patkau Architects

 

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