Fellow indie designer: Izik Levy

One of the perks to being an independent designer is that you get to meet other indie-types who make some pretty cool stuff. It's even better when these people also happen to like the stuff that you make because then well, sometimes you get a great barter going on.

We've bartered with a few other indie-types now and I'm always impressed by the quality of goods. One of the first trades we ever did was with Izik Levy.

I met Izik when I was still in design school and as part of the curriculum we had to put on a seminar in which we invited students from a design school in Toronto, and Izik was part of that group. Of course, at the time, I only remembered him as 'the guy with the glass robot' -- he had said that he had made it himself and I thought it was one of the coolest things I'd ever seen.

When I happened upon his glass robots a few months ago, I knew it was meant to be -- I would have to have my very own.


Izik is a Toronto-based designer/glass artist who also makes glass sock monkeys, ducks, beautiful bowls and cups and other stuff. But alas, my favourite are still the robots. Go visit his site, or better yet, if you're in Toronto, go get yourself a nice piece of glass ;)