Media

If you are coming to Toronto for the show Press Rates are available if you would like to book a hotel room in one of the Gladstone’s 30 fabulous artist designed rooms. Just call the Gladstone front desk for more info at: 416 531 4635.

If you are a writer for an online, print publication or other media and need more information, interviews, photos or anything else your heart desires please email Gladstone Creative Director, Jeremy Vandermeij.

To download the Official CUTMR 2010 Media Kit click here.

Attention

2010 Show

“…explosive conceptual and aesthetic displays as diverse as the designers…who have created them.”
– Globe and Mail
“…this year was by far the best.”
– View on Canadian Art
“Come Up To My Room is the most conceptual of the TIDF events that I attended this year, and also the most remarkable.”
–Toronto Craft Alert
“…one of the most surprising and inspiring collections of design ideas.”
–Torontoist
“But the theme here is creativity and the curators give free reign to the installation artists, waiting with bated breath to see it all come together.”
– Sabine Modder Mocoloco
“Unadulterated Art & Design!”
– CHEEK Magazine
“…explosive conceptual and aesthetic displays as diverse as the designers, artists, architects, photographers, sculptors, ceramacists and filmographers who have created them.”
– Globe and Mail

Past Shows

“Come Up To My Room’s hands-off curating style…always produces kooky-to-brilliant results.”
–  Andrew Sardone Now Magazine
“…Come Up To My Room is the wildly alternative sister to IDS.”
– Nina Boccia Azure 2008
“But the theme here is creativity and the curators give free reign to the installation artists, waiting with bated breath to see it all come together.”
–  Sabine Modder Mocoloco
“Come Up to My Room is very much a cumulative experience, one that I highly recommend..”
– Christopher Jones Style North
“It’s not about that art/design snob thing here; it’s about the free reign of ideas, and coming together to revel in the surprises generated from the intuitive leaps and bounds that make up the creative process. Basically you’ll either be saying “Hey, that’s cool!” a lot, or shaking your head and wondering, “WTF?”, but that’s what makes it fun.”
– Brad Pearson Mondo Magazine
“CUTMR was great because we had the opportunity to explore long-standing ideas.”
– Christine Ho Ping Kong of Studio Junction – accorded a 2009 Design Exchange Award for their installation in room 202 at CUTMR 2009
“This is an amazing venue for new Canadian designers/artisits to show their work, and it tells me as we see this exhibit grow every year, Canada is a force to be reckoned with in the design world!”
– Poppytalk