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daniellemeder jeremylaing dianadipoce ingridmida

mason studio simoneferkul alaroushan evanpavka

Les Mills Ryan Hughes

05 Sticks + Stones Simone Ferkul

11 Spring/Summer Collection 2014 Jeremy Laing

21 Kshetra Evan Pavka

29 Winter 2013 Erik Braun

45 Mason Studios Ashley Rumsey & Stanley Sun

57 Fashion Illustration Danielle Meder

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Sometimes I Dream of Reindeers Tom Feiler

77 DARE Magazine Diana Di Poce

89 World Beer Expo Vincent Noguchi

101 Atmospheric Effects Ala roushan

111 Ryerson Fashion Research Collection Ingrid Mida

121 Hockey in the Great Outdoors Dave Sandford

137 The Fall of Man Alyssa Alikpala

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Editors Note Less is More. This seems to be the mantra of Issue 00, the inaugural issue of Ryerson Art + Design Magazine (RADmag). While at times it was difficult with less, it seems to have paid off in the end. I am incredibly proud of the resulting magazine. I sincerely hope you enjoy exploring the work of the creative community at Ryerson.

I need to acknowledge those who helped bring this idea to life. To the fourteen volunteers on the roster who brought this all together: This would never have happened without you. To the alumni who agreed to contribute work, these pages would be very blank… Your inspiring accomplishments set the bar high for every student who is to be featured in the future. Having seen the work that is being created by current students in FCAD, I can’t wait to publish our first student edition in April. To our sponsors: the Faculty of Communication and Design and the School of Image Arts — Thank-you for believing in us.

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Roster issue 00 JC Pinheiro Editor & Chief Nathan Dunn Art Director Jessica Klein Press Edition Editor Deborah Lewis, Anna Avitsian ,Veronica Annis Press Edition Assistant Editors Robbie Sinclair Managing Editor Sebastien Dubois-Didock Photo Editor Matthew Thors-Waples Assistant Photo Editor Kate O’Reilly Fashion Editor Luke Greidanus, Erin McDermott Interior Design Editors Sean Davis Marketing/Social Media JC Pinherio Interactive Editor Kiersten Hay Interactive Advisor Iain Cameron Faculty Advisor

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Les Mills Ryan Hughes In November 2011 Ryan Hughes travelled to Los Angeles to shoot a photo campaign for the fitness company Les Mills.

Ryan worked with the ad agency Colenso BBDO based out of New Zealand. The concept was centred on the idea of ‘the group effect’.

He is a recipient of a Chalmers Arts Fellowship, and a commissioned filmmaker for The 2012 Vancouver Winter Olympics. His work has been profiled in The Atlantic, The British Journal of Photography, The Guardian, Wired, The Huffington Post, NPR, PDN, Creative Review, Resource Magazine, The Toronto Star, and Applied Arts.

Ryan’s clients include Saatchi &

Client: Les Mills Agency: Colenso BBDO

Saatchi, Sid Lee, BBDO, Uniqlo, SK Telecom, Samsung, Telus, Facebook, Adobe, TSN, PBS, Harry Rosen, The Canadian Armed Forces, The Canadian Football League, The National Film Board of Canada, Canada’s National Ballet School, The Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics, UA, TD Bank Financial Group, The University of Toronto, Ryerson University, Sunnybrook Hospital, Maxim, The New York Times, The Guardian, The Globe and Mail, Report on Business, Canadian Press, The Kit, and IEEE Spectrum.

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Ryan Enn Hughes is an award winning Motion Picture Director and Photographer based in Toronto, Canada.

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Sticks+Stones Simone Ferkul Stick+Stones seeks to reconnect designer,maker, and wearer to develop holistic objects that re-spond to the mass production of consumer goods.

Simone Ferkul is a Toronto based designer who studied interior design at Ryerson University. . However, she‘s passionate about expanding her definition of design beyond the physical space to become more multidisciplinary in nature.

Driven by the process of making and experimenting, she sets out to create experiences that celebrate materiality, form, function and detail. Simone strives to marry traditional means of production with modern day processes to create a progressive design approach that is responsive to contemporary culture.

Simone’s interdisciplinary project, Sticks+Stones, is characterized by angles, intersecting elements, and craft. Sticks+Stones reexamines traditional crystal models through material capacity. This fascination with structure becomes the essence of the collection, while the experimentation of walnut’s innate properties becomes the driving force in creating these wearable design objects. Exploring form, size, and proportion, all critical in the process of crystal cutting, the walnut skeletal framework layers integrates with the brass details and cotton cord to create pieces that reflect a return to craft techniques.

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Spring/Summer 2014 Jeremy Collection Laing Laing describes his SS14 collection as “Malibu Beach Barbie gos to a rave”. The vibrant color pallette awakens memories of hot summers and bright sidewalk chalk. While the collection evokes the early-nineties, it is kept contemporary by featuring boxy, oversized silhouettes juxtaposed with body-con ensembles and tech fabrics for freshness. The collection also features a couple of firsts for Laing such as the production of his own shoes, made in collaboration with Tiffany Tuttle, as well as menswear designs, a direction that Laing has been eager to take for some time.

Canadian-born Jeremy Laing spent his childhood on an army base in Germany. He learned to sew at age 13 by watching his mother, and has been making clothes ever since.

Jeremy’s self-taught method, which combines organic and geometric approaches to pattern making and construction, was honed while studying in Toronto, on exchange at Westminster University in London, and through an apprenticeship with Alexander McQueen. Following his apprenticeship, Jeremy worked freelance developing showpieces for five of McQueen’s collections, demonstrating his strength in

innovative pattern making, garment construction, and the use of textile to create form. In 2011, Jeremy was a finalist for the prestigious ANDAM Fashion Award.

In Jeremy’s view, garments are a sum of parts, all functioning in relation to one another and, ultimately, to the body. His collections often stem from his elaborations on simple principles of construction and form, drawing simultaneously from couture and tailoring traditions.

Jeremy currently lives and works in Toronto, Canada.

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Kshetra Evan Pavka

Kshetra: Funerary Infrastructure for Depleted Water Ecologies in India explores the spiritual, scientific, and philosophical realms of architecture. Responding to the increased toxicity of the Ganges River, brought about by cremation practices across the country, Kshetra employs architecture as a catalyst for social as well as environmental conservation. Employing 3D modeling software to deconstruct the form of cattle bones, three architectural fields - Bhavana, Rakha, and Yatra – were developed to purify the toxic waters of the Ganges while providing space for intimate funerary rights. Taking to the river, the concrete fields float above a series of underwater pipes, passive filters, and holding tanks filled with aerobic bacteria to channel polluted waters into the building. Here, the water is purified and released into one of three pores within the structures to enable safe interaction with the sacred waters for a variety of religious rights. After these rights, the water is re-filtered and released back into the river.

Kshetra further explores the practice of cremation through contemporary technology. The Padma space re-envisions the pyre as a series of stone fins immersed in a pool of water connected to an underwater filtration system. This system employs aerobic bacteria to filter polluted river waters and direct the purified solution into the structure for use in religious activities or in the reimagined funerary pyre. As the individual is cremated, the stones store the latent heat and begin to vaporize the water in the pore. This vaporization causes the particles of water to attach to the ash developing an intimate relationship with one’s body and the river as the remains are carried out through the vault in the arching canopy. The ashes, along with the purified waters, enter the water cycle and are disseminated across a greater land area enabling both macro and micro ecosystems to process the carbon produced from the cremation.

Through the use of three distinct sites, the structure addresses the multifaceted nature of death in a contemporary context contrasted with the prominence of the area’s traditional observances.

Centered on the notion of purification – through the fires of the pyre, the phenomenological experience of the structures’ materiality, and the filtration infrastructure – Kshetra addresses the capacity of architecture to not only offer meaningful space for the remembrance of individual life but to connect users with a greater community enabling one to accept the most human quality of all; our mortality.

Evan Pavka is a designer and recent graduate of Ryerson’s School of Interior Design whose collaborative practice explores art, objects, and spaces through design, curation, and writing.

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Winter 2013 Erik Braun During the winter of 2012-2013, Erik Braun had the opportunity to work with a Cat Skiing operation based out of Nelson, BC from late December to early April. Erik worked alongside mountain guides to create images of skiers and snowboarders, capturing the experience of riding deep powder. Though his task was to photograph clients of the cat skiing operation, Erik also focused on the guides themselves and the surrounding Valhalla mountain range. Throughout various winter conditions, the guides worked tirelessly to assess possible dangers and maintain a level of safety within threatening avalanche zones and often unstable conditions. The images included in this selection reect the experience of being in the mountains during deep winter and play with the diverging feelings of adrenaline, serenity, danger and peace which are all common emotions within a day in the backcountry.

Erik Braun currently resides in Vancouver BC splitting his time between working a full time job as a grain worker in Port Metro Vancouver and pursuing personal photographic projects in his spare time. Erik continues to spend time in the mountains whenever he can enjoying the backcountry and its polarizing traits of the sublime.

Braun uses a wide variety of photographic tools from compact point-and-shoots to large format but also knows his way around a digital camera when he has to. His focus is broad but Braun enjoys snap-shot style images as well as projects that engage with social and historical subject matter.

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Mason Studio Ashley Rumsey & Stanley Sun

Mason Studio is a Toronto-based interior design ďŹ rm focused on the integration of art, object, graphics and technology.

By merging the minds of a team of creative professionals, multidisciplinary design solutions arise to present new ways to engage with our everyday environments.

Ashley Rumsey and Stanley Sun share the creative direction of Mason Studio. They have experience designing retail, commercial and hospitality projects around the world for top-level international clients.

Mason Studio was born as the child of their experiences. Over the years, they have come to fully respect the level of craft, skill and dedication that is required in the process of any design. Their work is a tribute to all the craftspeople who, through their skill and dedication, bring a design to life.

Though our experiences extend to almost every continent, we maintain a deep connection with Canada and make it a necessity to engage

at a local level at every opportunity.

It is an understanding of Canadian design in a global context which gives potency to our designs.

Our creations are not the product of an isolated process. Our model is based on a collaborative strength, bringing together the sharpest minds and the steadiest hands to help bring our visions to life. Together, we become Canadian design; not by deďŹ ning a new aesthetic, but by creating a collaborative and shared process. With these talented artists to help support our craft, we are proud to call Canada our home and native land.

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Fashion Illustration Danielle Meder Danielle Meder is a fashion illustrator specializing in live runway sketching and sophisticated designer paper dolls.

Sketching at fashion weeks in New York, Paris and London, using both traditional and digital media, she has developed a spontaneous, elegant style in the tradition of Joe Eula and Kenneth Paul Block. Her live runway sketches have appeared in Women’s Wear Daily and FLARE. She has been photographed drawing at fashion shows by The Sartorialist and The New York Times. Her paper dolls have been commissioned by New York Magazine, Bloomingdale’s, and The Hudson’s Bay Company.

Homeschooled in a log house built by her parents on a farm in rural Ontario, Danielle became interested in fashion through costume history books she found at the library. She first started drawing paper dolls as a small child. After graduating with honors from the School of Fashion Design at Ryerson University in 2006, Danielle failed to launch. She somehow self-sabotaged every full-time fashion design job interview she got. She worked at a part time retail job and as a temporary production assistant while blogging, against the advice of her professors.

Her website, Final Fashion, ended up becoming the catalyst for her future career. Displaying her drawings began to interest potential clients, and she began to get small fashion illustration gigs. When she got laid off from her retail job, she decided to rip up her resume and print business cards instead.

Since then she’s taken on many different types of work with clients all over the world. The projects she’s done include editorial illustration, instructions for home sewing patterns, game avatar design, fashion writing, teaching, speaking, consulting, costume design and performance art. From 2010 to 2012 she moved to London, United Kingdom where she continued her career and practiced her live runway sketching technique at fashion weeks in Paris, Milan and Berlin.

Now she lives in the Junction neighborhood of Toronto with her studio nearby, and she travels to New York each fashion season. She continues to share her illustration projects and writing at FinalFashion.ca.

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Sometimes I Dream Of Reindeer Tom Feiler

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Sometimes I Dream of Reindeer is a departure from my comedic commercial and print work. The film echoes similar themes that I explored in my book: Drift.

While Drift was about the obsessions and isolation of a fictional couple Sometimes I Dream of Reindeer is an exploration of memories and dreams. When asked by my father what the film was about I replied, “Sometimes I Dream of Reindeer is a film that hopefully allows each viewer to walk away with their own interpretation of what they just saw; a lingering puzzling memory.” My father pondered and then replied,” It can’t always be fun and games.”

Sometimes I Dream of Reindeer is a short film and book produced independently by Tom Feiler.

Legend says Tom Feiler is an award-winning photographer who began directing commercially over 100 years ago. His directorial range travels the mountaintops of expansive comedic moments to the gentle valleys of small smiles and meaningful moments.

Over the past 100 years, Tom has been awarded by: Communication Arts, Archive Magazine, Cannes International Advertising Festival, The One Show, National Magazine Awards, The Advertising and Design Club of Canada, Marketing Awards, Black Book AR100 Award Show, Applied Arts Magazine and his Mom.

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DARE Magazine Diana Di Poce

DARE Magazine was initially developed in 2013 as part of Diana di Poce’s fourth-year thesis project, a requirement of the Ryerson University fashion communications degree program.

As a plus size woman with a passion for style and magazines, she had nowhere to turn for her fashion fix. With a background in art direction, styling and graphic design, Di Poce decided to produce DARE for curvy women like herself.

DARE Magazine is Canada’s first plus size fashion magazine. DARE is the curvy woman’s digital goto-guide for the latest in fashion and beauty news, tips and trends.

A destination for fashion-forward ladies, DARE is committed to featuring top celebrities, bloggers and models to inspire plus size Founder & Creative Director: Diana Di Poce Editorial Director: Ash Kowalewski Fashion Director: Me-Hi Mary Kim

women worldwide to be daring with their style and to flaunt their curves.

All women can be fashion-forward no matter what size they wear-style truly has no size.

Dedicated to catering to women sizes 12+, DARE is a quarterly online publication that offers readers style and trend tips, shopping advice and beautiful fashion editorials. DARE has worked with leading plus size fashion bloggers, models and designers such as Jeanne Beker, Cycle 10 winner of “America’s Next Top Model” Whitney Thompson, singer Mary Lambert and Karyn Johnson of Killer Kurves to fill our pages with the latest in style.

DARE has reached thousands of viewers worldwide and has received incredible press reception from sources such as Perez Hilton, The Thought Catalog, CTV News, and newspapers across the country (Metro News, Montreal Gazette, Ottawa Citizen, etc.).

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Di Poce has previous experience working in the fashion industry, both in Toronto and New York City, for several years. She was editorial designer at The Kit Magazine (Toronto Star), where she developed the weekly print edition for the Toronto Star. Di Poce also worked with the art and styling teams at magazines such as Martha Stewart Weddings, WeddingBells, AIR MILES, and Today’s Parent.

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World Beer Expo Vincent Noguchi

The project was part of LCBO’s annual beer campaign. This particular concept was to showcase the different beer regions of the world by illustrating continents on pint glasses using beer foam.

Attending the University of Toronto, Vince quickly learned that photography was his real passion. He then took a 3rd year photo course at York, where the instructor suggested that Ryerson was really the place to learn how to become a pro. The following year, Vince enrolled and found what he described as: “a feeling that this was everything I wanted to do and learn...it was

Client: LCBO Agency: Venture Retoucher: Marcelle Faucher

fantastic. The first day they gave me a list of required items to buy and everything I wanted was on that list.

I remember walking up the stairs to my first photography course and a feeling of euphoria hit me, this was what I was looking for”.

Over the years, advertising, editorial and corporate clients have relied on Vince’s dedication to detail. Never satisfied until the photograph feels just right, Vince reworks a shot until the composition and lighting fuse— results his many clients have come to appreciate.

Vince’s work has appeared in Food & Drink magazine, Foodland Ontario, the Globe and Mail Style Advisor, billboards and brochures.

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Born and raised in Toronto by two creative parents, Vince Noguchi found a passion in photography that quickly consumed his life. Starting early with his mother’s plastic pointand-shoot, Vince soon acquired his dad’s beautiful old Kodak and then his very own Fuji 701. A darkroom followed, and a lifelong love grew into a full-time career capturing food, beverages and products.

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Atmospheric Effects Ala Roushan

Ala received the Bachelor of Interior Design in 2007 from Ryerson University. Subsequently, she worked as a Research Assistant for Prof. Filiz Klassen on the project “Malleable Matter”, where she had the opportunity to develop materials responsive to atmospheric effects.

She completed her post-graduate studies from the Städelschule Architecture Class, in Frankfurt, Germany, in 2010, with a Master of Arts in Advanced Architectural Design under the direction of Prof. Ben van Berkel and Dr. Johan Bettum. Ala’s main research focused on the topic of New Grounds, mediating between parametric techniques and contextual conditions. The idea of bring- ing program into infrastructure led to her thesis project, which proposed ramps as habitable spaces. Her project

explored how varying slopes can guide program distribution; executed through a performative parametric model, utilizing vector fields to define the relation between layers of datum. By feeding the vectors with contextual flow conditions, local differentiation of ramp slope and position emerged; this in turn defined the speed of program. The notion of speed as a quality of infrastructure was the research topic for her theory proposal, examining and analyzing speeding up and slowing down in relation to urban rooftop spaces.

Upon graduation Ala worked on an architectural design and development project for a creative space/think-tank in Stuttgart Germany, in collaboration with Prof. Kai Bierich. Ala then returned to Toronto to work for Cannon Design (involved in sports facilities, institutional and healthcare projects).

She has since been involved in various freelance projects as well as research and experi- mental production on the topic of objects and objecthood. In parallel, Ala began teaching Design Studio at Ryerson’s School of Interior Design, something which she continues to be involved with today.

Ala maintains an international multidisciplinary practice, being the co-founder and co-director of flip project space, a non-profit space for contemporary art in Napoli, Italy.

This project was initi- ated with a partner in 2011 as a platform to expand on various interests in relation to current cul- ture and contemporary artistic practice. Ala is involved both in organizational as well as curatorial activities, which have thus far led to various exhibitions and publications.

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Ala is engaged in a multidisciplinary practice exploring the potentials and boundaries between design, art and architecture. She has experience working internationally in Canada, Germany, USA, and Italy, in the architecture/design industries as well as in independent curatorial/research projects.

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Ryerson Fashion Research Collection Ingrid Mida

On February 12, 2012, Dr. Alison Matthews David opened an unmarked door for Ingrid on the seventh oor of the Ryerson University Library and revealed a collection of donated garments, accessories and fashion ephemera belonging to the School of Fashion. This collection of donated artifacts, which had been dormant since 2009, had languished in the absence of curatorial direction. Ingrid saw an opportunity and stepped forward to offer her services.

After surveying the leading fashion programs with study collections in North America, Ingrid began the process of curating the collection.

In the course of that work, she discovered garments by leading designers such as Balmain, Christian Dior, Lanvin, and Valentino, as well as historic items dating back to 1860. This core group of artifacts has been moved into newly

Stylist: Kate O’Reilly Photographer: Jazmin Welch

renovated storage facilities in Kerr Hall West, making the collection more readily accessible to students, faculty, and visiting researchers.

Ingrid is currently working on a project with library staff to bring the entire collection catalogue online.

As the Fashion Research Collection Co-ordinator, Ingrid visits undergraduate and graduate classes to discuss material culture and how to conduct object-based research in fashion. She also guest lectures on the topics of fashion in the museum, fashion in art, and fashion in 19th century photography.

Her essay on Fashion + Curatorial Practice will be published this year in a book called Fashion + edited

by Dr. Rainer Wenrich. Ingrid is currently writing a book under contract with Bloomsbury Fashion to be published in the fall of 2015.

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In the summer of 2011, when Ingrid Mida decided to return to university to pursue a second graduate degree, she was not really sure where the Master of Arts degree would lead. Although she hadspent the last ten years working in the arts and in museums, she wanted the credentials to validate her skillset, and accepted the invitation to be part of the MA Fashion program at Ryerson.

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Hockey in the great outdoors Dave Sandford

The NHL Winter Classic at Michigan Stadium, Ann Arbor, Michigan, January 1st, 2014: Toronto Maple Leafs vs Detroit Red Wings + The NHL Stadium Series games at Yankee Stadium, New York, New York, January 26th, New York Rangers vs New Jersey Devils, January 29th, New York Rangers vs New York Islanders.

Since the first Heritage Classic in Edmonton the NHL has done 11 outdoor games. Dave Sandford has covered 10 of the 11, the one exception being the recent game at Dodger Stadium in LA, which occurred the same weekend as the games in NY. This selection of images from all 3 games and practices depicts an editorial series of hockey in the great outdoors. It shows the unique aspects of these outdoor games; Mother Nature can throw any type of weather at you, sun, cloud, rain, and snow. They had virtually every one of those elements of weather for these 3 games; it keeps it very interesting for even the most experienced hockey photographers as the backdrop is constantly changing.

Dave has 17 years of NHL shooting experience and is freelancing for: the HHOF, the NBA, IIHF, Sports

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Illustrated, Canadian Olympic Committee, Hockey Canada, NFL, MLB, and Getty Images which has assigned him to cover: FIFA soccer, WTA Tennis, and PGA Golf. When not on the ice he is very involved in the Wakeboard industry, freelancing for a number of magazines and manufacturers. Dave has covered every Stanley Cup Final since the 1998 Final; 15 to date (minus the ‘05 lockout), 17 NHL Drafts, 16 NHL Awards Ceremonies, 8 World Junior Hockey Tournaments, 2 Olympic Games, World Hockey Championships, World Series, and the Super Bowl.

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Sandford attended Ryerson from 1993-97 studying photography.

During his time there he interned at the Hockey Hall of Fame (HHOF) for 3 years, while at the same time assisting the Toronto Maple Leafs team photographer. In 1997 the Hockey Hall of Fame hired Dave full time as their photographer. Just one year later the National Hockey League formed their own photo agency NHL Images, who hired Dave in July of 1998 and has been with them ever since.

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The Alyssa FallAlikpala Of Man All images of women’s wear are from my 4th year collection, theme “The Fall of Man”

In 2013, Alyssa launched a menswear brand, with co-founder Kevin Chao, under the name When We Were Young, or 3 • W • Y. The contemporary street wear label is produced in New York and is sold in select boutiques.

As well, the label has been featured on websites such as Hypebeast and Details Magazine – Style Network.

Photographer: Felix Wong Model: Ashtyn Franklin

In addition to working on her menswear line, Alyssa is also currently working for Toronto designer Mikhael Kale, and was previously working as a technical design assistant at Joe Fresh. She attributes much of her learning not only to her education at Ryerson, but also to her professional and internship experience both during and following her university career.

With her goal to independently launch a women’s line in the future, Alyssa strives to expand her experience in the industry and continually develop her body of work. At the moment, she is working towards a design competition, in which she is hopeful in being chosen as a finalist amongst other young international emerging designers.

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Born and raised in Vancouver, Alyssa Alikpala moved to Toronto in 2008 to attend Ryerson.

In 2012, she graduated from the fashion design program and her collection was selected for the Mass Exodus top 25 industry fashion show. Pieces from the collection were featured as part of a Holt Renfrew store display in the summer of 2012. Shortly after, in collaboration with Danier, one of her jacket designs was manufactured and sold in stores across Canada for Fall/Winter 2012.

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