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Introducing Western Living’s 2023 Designers of the Year Award Winners
Designers of the Year is Western Living magazine’s annual competition for designers from across Western Canada. We’re thrilled every year at the amount of talent to be found in the categories of architecture, interior, fashion, furniture, industrial, maker and landscape design. Winners, selected each year by a panel of celebrated industry judges, are featured in our September issue. Learn more about our Designers of the Year competition.
2008: Measured Architecture 2009: McFarlane Green Biggar 2010: Marc Boutin 2011: BattersbyHowat 2012: Lang Wilson 2013: Cedric Burgers 2014: AA Robins Architect 2015: Measured Architecture 2016: Design-Built 2017: Campos Studio 2018: McLeod Bovell 2019: Campos Studio 2020: Burgers Architecture 2021: McLeod Bovell 2022: Measured Architecture
2011: 5468796 Architecture 2012: Public Architecture 2013: Lanefab 2014: McLeod Bovell 2015: MAA Studio 2016: Leckie Studio 2017: MoDA 2018: Gates Suter Architects 2019: Studio North 2020: RUF Project 2021: Vallely Architecture 2022: Scott Posno
2008: Evoke International Design and Juli Hodgson (tie) 2009: Mitchell Freedland 2010: Alda Pereira 2011: BattersbyHowat 2012: Juli Hodgson 2013: Robert Bailey 2014: AA Robins Architect 2015: Splyce Design 2016: Douglas Cridland 2017: Project 22 Design 2018: Juli Hodgson 2019: Evoke International Design 2020: Measured Architecture 2021: Amanda Hamilton Interior Design 2022: PlaidFox Studio
2013: Sophie Burke 2014: Atmosphere Interior Design 2015: Kevin Mitchell 2016: Falken Reynolds Interiors 2017: Stephanie Brown 2018: Andrea Rodman 2019: Gaile Guevara Studio 2020: One Seed Architecture + Interiors 2021: Amanda Evans Interiors 2022: Studio Roslyn
2008: Red Flag Design 2009: This Is It 2010: Cedric Burgers 2011: Contexture Design 2012: Manasc Isaac 2013: CEI Architecture 2014: AA Robins Architect 2015: JWT Architecture
2008: Anna Kosturova 2009: Konzuk 2010: Pyrrha 2011: Obakki 2012: Marie Khouri 2013: Obakki 2014: Redfish Kids 2015: Duly Equipped 2016: Truvelle 2017: Claudia Schulz 2018: Truvelle 2019: Béton Brut 2020: Irene Rasetti 2021: Becki Chan 2022: Vestige
2008: Matthew Kroeker 2009: This is It 2010: Izm 2011: Niels Bendtson 2012: Shawn Place 2013: Brent Comber Originals 2014: MTH Woodworks 2015: Sholto Scruton 2016: Steven Pollock 2017: Kate Duncan 2018: Willow and Stump 2019: Jeff Martin Joinery 2020: Thom Fougere 2021: Origins 2022: Nicholas Purcell
2009: This is It 2010: Rollout 2011: Omer Arbel 2012: Marie Khouri 2013: Loyal Loot 2014: Lukas Peet 2015: Thom Fougere 2016: Matthew McCormick 2017: Annie Tung 2018: Ko Júbilo 2019: Zoë Pawlak 2020: Onetwosix 2021: Caine Heintzman 2022: Workbench Studio
2008: Space2Place Design 2009: Senga Landscape Architecture 2010: Victoria Wood Studio 2011: Paul Sangha 2012: Anne Talbot-Kelly 2013: Considered Design 2014: Green Over Grey 2017: Straub Thurmayr 2018: BattersbyHowat 2019: Planta Design Studio 2020: JWT Architecture and Planning 2021: Donohoe Living Landscapes 2022: Planta Landscape
2016: Cathy Terepoki 2017: Mezzaluna Studio 2018: Kalika Bowlby 2019: Natalie Gerber 2020: Scandinavia Wolf Designs 2021: Mtharu 2022: Origins
2008: Walker McKinley, Rod Whitman, Zachary Fluker, Colleen Baran 2009: Molo, Catherine Regehr, Sabrina Hill, Shaun Ford, Marc Boutin, Bruce Wilson, Claudia Baik 2010: Ryan Scarff, The Sky is the Limit, Christian Woo, Contexture, Justine Brooks, Lanefab 2011: Richard Davignon, John Greg Ball, Dina Gonzalez Mascaro, Robert Faulkner, Jenny Martin, Green Over Grey, Shape Architecture 2012: RUF Project, Atmosphere Interior Design, JWT Architecture and Planning, Manitobah Mukluks, Palette Industries, Cory Barkman, Straub Thurmayr 2013: Rectangle Design, Amanda Hamilton Interior Design, One Seed Architecture and Interior, Eliza Faulkner, Sticks and Stones, Jordan Tomnuk, JWT Architecture 2014: Campos Leckie Studio, Marrimor, Fat Crow Design, Poppy Barley, Jeff Martin Joinery, Concrete Cat 2015: Studio Bup, Mtharu, Truvelle, AdrianMartinus 2016: Wendy W. Fok, Autonomous Furniture Collective, Lara Presber, OneTwoSix Design 2017: Becki Chan, Ko Júbilo, Claire Kennedy Design, Studio Brovhn, Rachel Saunders 2018: Jamie Gentry, Studio North, Shipway Living Design, Green Elevations, Benjamin Oswald 2019: New Format Studio, Grandi, Tantalus Design, Origins and Biophilia Design Collective 2020: Parts and Labor, Acacia Landscape, Nikki Alagha Design, Henry Sun 2021: Tracey Cameron, Misheo, Same Old Studio, Tafui 2022: EVStenroos, Eden Projects, Ffab Home, Shipway Living, A Deumain
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