Cutting-Edge Cool

They’ve come quite far since the Garbo garbage can heydays. We hit the Umbra Concept Store on Toronto’s John Street to check out the launch of the 2008 Umbra catalogue. Co-founder Paul Rowan and his design team were great hosts (my favourite beer!), and happy to introduce Umbra’s new design director Matt Carr, who started working at Umbra almost right out of Humber College design school. And the new 2008 stuff is hot! Umbra certainly has the market cornered on reinventing traditional, everyday objects with new technology and natural materials. Check it all out or visit umbra.ca.
- Doug Wallace, Deputy Editor

Photo by Danielle Matar