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Here are five excellent reasons to submit your work before March 1, for the chance to win an AZ AWARD.

After the whirlwind that was last week’s design bonanza in Toronto, we’ve compiled a collection of snapshots of standout products and exhibits – including the hotly talked about (and photographed) installation by Mason, a hip Toronto firm that’s poised to shake up hospitality design; and an exhibit on Piero Lissoni’s work.

In anticipation of her Trade Talk at the Interior Design Show in Toronto next week, the French designer discussed collaboration, colour, inspiration, and her latest project, Le Blobterre de Matali (now on view at the Centre Pompidou in Paris) with Azure contributor Christina Bagatavicius.

Enter your work into the 2012 AZ AWARDS, an international competition honouring architecture firms and design studios that have produced outstanding works in the past year.

Azure is taking a short break for the holidays. To celebrate, we leave you with a collection of images from the fabulous new book on Alexander Girard designed by Todd Oldman and Kiera Coffee, and published by AMMO. Weighing in at 6.8 kilos, the 675-page tome traces the New York textile designer’s prolific career, from his bold and colourful work for Herman Miller and his Austin Power-worthy mod interiors to his brilliant typographic works that came to define the 1960s era of optimism, happiness and play. We’ll be back on January 2, 2012.

For our January/February 2012 issue, we asked Toronto photographer Colin Faulkner to capture the beauty of 15 new dinner plates. Here’s how he managed to make these saucers fly across our pages.

On November 30, the Dutch design collective presents the (giant) fruits of its northern exposure at an Azure-sponsored event at Toronto’s Gladstone Hotel.

During Chicago’s NeoCon in June, Azure chatted with Patricia Urquiola at the Luminaire showroom about designer-manufacturer relationships and her new All Ambiq glassware line for Glasstress. Watch the interview after the jump.

Last night at Toronto’s Harbourfront Centre, over 300 guests were on hand to cheer on the 14 winners of our first international awards program, and to take in the newly installed AZ Awards exhibit – on all summer at Harbourfront Centre.

AZURE is proud to present the first four confirmed jurors for the AZ AWARDS, its first annual international competition celebrating excellence in design.