The Starting Block
Starting Block In the year 2024 (so divisible!) Block aims to hit the right balance.
Block Magazine
Creativity has its place
Spring/Summer 2024 (Issue 28)
Place Power
The Business Resonance’s Chris Fair on the “place power” of cities
Different Strokes
My Space A mini scaffold and big brushes in Marigold Santos’ Calgary studio.
Untitled (Cube) by Joy Walker
Artist’s Block Joy Walker’s block flops and folds.
Ahead of the Curve
The Interior A Toronto private club designed for women, by women.
Freeze Frame
Make room for the arts Sum Artist’s José Bautista mural at 99 Spadina.
Shifting Current
The Creator On the cover: Artist and organizer Germaine Koh is a happy collaborator.
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The Moment Dumplings, conversation and a truly multipurpose office.
Part to Whole
Work-In-Progress Pour l’architecte Safoura Zahedi, motifs géométriques riment avec spiritualité
Bike Revolution
The Conversation On cycling infrastructure breeding bike culture in Montreal.
64.0 by Omer Arbel
Made A candle so fragile it gets shipped in a block of ice.
Eric Lachance
Fill In The Blank Eric Lachance’s urban infill.
The Chambers, 40 & 46 Elgin Street
The 1KM Guide The best coffee, thali and zeroproof drinks in one Ottawa neighbourhood.
King Street’s Silver Lining
Now & Then Toronto’s historic Silver Plate Building won’t tarnish
On Beauty
Rethink Labelling to find beauty where you are.
Balanced Flavours
The Blueprint How to make your own perfect dumpling.
Contributors
ILLUSTRATIONS BY KAGAN MCLEOD
Jeremy Paul is a strategist at Whitman Emorson who strives to tell compelling stories that resonate with brands and their audiences. For this issue, he peeked at Calgary-based artist Marigold Santos’ studio.
Joy Walker is a Montreal-born, Toronto-based multidisciplinary artist, educator and former textile designer who has exhibited widely both locally and internationally.
Sara Frizzell is an Ottawa-based multimedia storyteller who has produced content for CBC News, Metroland and the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, among others.
Eric Lachance is an artist interested in the intersection of human activity and the built environment, and the historical significance of objects and iconography. Lachance contributed our Fill in the Blank.
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Kristina Ljubanovic
CREATIVE DIRECTORS
Yasemin Emory, Whitney Geller, Paul Kawai
MANAGING EDITOR
Claire Reis
COMMISSIONING EDITOR
Mélanie Ritchot
PHOTO & ILLUSTRATION EDITOR
Catherine Dean
ASSISTANT PHOTO & ILLUSTRATION EDITOR
Michael Nyarkoh
DESIGNERS
Julie MacKinnon, Grant Irving
TRANSLATOR
Catherine Connes
COPY EDITORS - PROOFREADERS
Suzanne Aubin, Jane Fielding, Lesley Fraser
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