STUDIO SESSION: JAMIE WOLFOND

Jamie Wolfond’s Junction studio is where the designer plays with materials and forms to create lighting, furniture and accessories for brands including Muuto, Moooi and Ferm Living. In an interview with The Globe and Mail’s Senior Style Editor, Haley Steinberg, Wolfond will discuss how the space and his approach to making influence the way he thinks about design. At the event, guests can experience his workshop and the DesignTO exhibition, TAPE, where nine design studios explore how the eponymous material facilitates experimentation.

Speakers

 Jamie Wolfond is a designer. In 2013, he graduated from The Rhode Island School of Design with a BFA in Furniture Design. From 2014-2018, Wolfond ran a consumer brand called Good Thing. In 2018, he sold Good Thing and opened Jamie Wolfond Studio.

Jamie Wolfond Studio designs useful objects and creates artwork for brands, galleries and interior designers. While the studio works across many disciplines, every project is connected by a physical approach to research. Wolfond develops a design through a series of hand-made experiments, each one building on the knowledge gained from the experience of making the last. The results of Wolfond’s process are objects that are simultaneously logical and unexpected, each one providing the narrative of its own creation.

Haley Steinberg is the Senior Style Editor at The Globe and Mail. Previously, she was an editor and writer at Toronto Life for nearly six years, most recently serving as Arts and Culture Editor. Haley has also taught writing at CUNY Bronx Community College and led writing workshops at Marian House, a supportive housing facility for women in Baltimore, Maryland.