Designers of the Year

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

Through translucent forms and thoughtful function, Annaka Hoelk designs pieces that gently invite beauty—and joy—into the rituals of daily life.

Architects Marianne Amodio and Harley Grusko, the duo behind MA+HG, refuse to give in to preconceived notions of what a building must be.

Kyla Bidgood—principal of Victoria interior design studio Bidgood—fulfills her design destiny.

Ceramicist Andrea Copp celebrates resilience and change through her sculptural work.

When you find your creative match—like the duo behind Marrimor Objects—the result is furniture in which playful meets practical, and good design becomes something greater

Laura Killam Architecture brings thoughtful design to remote properties on the West Coast.

Designer Andrea Blais’s fine metal and stone pieces truly say something about each of their wearers—and it’s that emotional attunement to her clients that makes her pieces stand out.

Meet the up-and-coming talents making waves in Western Canadian design.