Designers of the Year

It was a full house at Inform on September 10, 2026 to celebrate this year's WL Designers of the Year Award winners.

Eight winners, your People’s Choice favourites and two new Hall of Famers—see who’s shaping Western Canada’s design future.

Fisherman’s daughter and fashion student Jenalee Nordstrom of Schédio Spaces got hooked on interior design—and earned this year’s Robert Ledingham Memorial Award in the process.

A Vancouver designer finds poetry in hidden hardware and the hardworking systems most of us walk past.

Meet the rising talents catching our eye in industrial design, furniture and making.

Andrew van Egmond’s landscapes make room for nature to move closer.

Studio Balcaen Kwan—this year’s Arthur Erickson Memorial Award winner—is listening.

Ko Júbilo brings an industrial designer’s eye for adaptability to furniture that’s meant to grow and change with its owner.

For RUFproject’s Sean Pearson, the constraints of a tough project are just the beginning: an opportunity to create something wonderful.

Thousands of votes, eight standout projects: meet the designers and designs Western Living readers chose as this year’s favourites.