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Harry
Mahler
RCA, ACIDO
Designer and Lecturer
Professor
Ontario College of Art and Design,
Industrial Design
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Designer, born in 1946. A graduate of the Ontario
College of Art, Industrial Design Programme. (AOCA -
1970).
Over the next 6 years, worked as a consultant
industrial
designer with Robin Bush Associates, and as staff
designer for
Cooper Canada Ltd. and the Victoria National Museum in
Ottawa.
After winning a Design Canada Scholarship, moved to
England to complete a Master Degree in Industrial Design
at Birmingham Polytechnic, 1977. During the following
year worked as an industrial designer for the Lund Usher
Design Group in England on capital and business
equipment. While in England lectured on Industrial Design
at Wolverhampton Polytechnic. Returning to Canada in
1978, taught Industrial Design at Georgian College, in
Barrie, Ontario.
Hired as Senior Industrial Designer, in 1980 at NCR
Canada Ltd. in Waterloo. Responsible for the design of
Item Processing Equipment including the management of a
six person design team which included industrial design,
human factors and material engineering personnel.
In 1988 joined Axis Group Inc. as Vice President and
partner, becoming President of Axis Group International
in 1998.
A Past President of the Association of Charted Industrial
Designers of Ontario from 1992 to 1995 and past Director
of ACID - Association of Canadian Industrial Designers.
Mr. Mahler started teaching Industrial Design at the
Ontario College of Art and Design in 1992 and became a
Full Professor in 2002.
For his contribution to the development of the visual
arts in Canada, Harry Mahler was elected an academician
of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts (RCA) in 1994.
Professional Affiliations
- Royal
Canadian Academy of Arts (RCA
- Association
of Chartered Industrial Designers of Ontario (ACIDO)
- Association
of Canadian Industrial Designers (ACID)
- Graphic
Designers of Canada (MGDC)
- Industrial
Design Society of America (IDSA) , international
member
- President
(1988-1990 and 1990-1992) of the Association of Chartered
Industrial Designers of Ontario.
Awards and Competitions
- Design
Canada Scholarships 1971, 1976
Prestige Design Award, England 1976
SMAU Design Award Milan, Italy
IF SIGNET Award - Hanover, Germany
Design Canada, Award of Excellence - 1983
Plast-ex Design Canada - Award for Excellence - 1983
Plast-ex Design Engineering Achievement Award - 1983
Design Canada, Award of Merit - 1984
Canada Awards for Excellence - 1985
NCR R&D Award 1987
Virtu Canadian Design Competition , 1995
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