Michael Fohring wins The One Club for Creativity Young Guns 16 award

[from The One Club for Creativity website:]

Michael Fohring (M.Arch. 2016) is one of 30 winners of Young Guns 16, arguably the design and advertising industry's most respected competition and award for young creative professionals. Young Guns recognizes the vanguard of creative professionals 30 years of age and under. Founded in 1996, the portfolio-based competition has grown to become one of the most coveted awards for young creatives around the globe. For many designers, art directors, illustrators, copywriters, photographers, filmmakers, animators and other creatives, being named a Young Guns winner is a sure sign of a skyrocketing career, as well as a source of validation for all of the stressful days and sleepless nights that have come with early successes.

Michael Fohring is a co-founder of Odami, a multi-disciplinary design studio based out of Toronto whose work ranges from architecture to custom and experimental furniture. Prior to Odami, Michael worked in offices in Austria, Montréal, and Toronto, most recently including Batay-Csorba Architects, where he was the lead on two award-winning projects: MisfitFit and Headfoneshop. Michael completed both his B.Sc.(Arch.) and M.Arch. degrees at McGill University where his thesis on the grotesque and applications of fabric formwork won the RAIC Student Medal, the AIA Henry Adams Medal, and was nominated for a Canadian Architect Student Award of Excellence. These interests have continued to be a central theme in his work.