Category Archives: CoMo General

CoMo Party July 28

We are in the final push for the finish line and are having a little party to help raise some finishing funds for the film. Posters, Oysters, music, surprises and a bar all inside Ouno Design’s incredible converted church in Vancouver’s Strathcona neighbourhood. How better to start a long weekend? Scoop a poster, have a [...]

Pecha Kucha Night June 23

We’ll be presenting at Pecha Kucha Night volume 17, June 23 at the Vogue Theatre here in Vancouver. This is a special edition of the ever popular PK series focusing on West Coast Modernism. Grab your tickets early as they always sell out fast. We’ll be tweeting details as we get closer to June.

And We’re Back

We’ve been editing & shooting for the past 3 months and have just completed an incredible final burst in California. May is going to be an intense month in the edit suite to get the film finished. Thanks to all our friends in Los Angeles and San Francisco, we had a blast. As always, we [...]

Los Angeles Neutra Homes Tour

There’s a Neutra party happening on the weekend of April 8th in LA. Check the events lineup and get inside some of these landmark California designs. You haven’t been into a modern house until you’ve been inside a Neutra. The Saturday and Sunday events look like stand outs to us. Details here. From Dion Neutra. [...]

Neutra’s Survival Through an Earthquake

Thought we’d share these earthquake survival tips we received from LA’s architecture royalty Dion Neutra. This man might know a thing or two about structural integrity and living on the coast. Seems like the gist of survival during an earthquake is to get into a void. Read these tips and comment if you know anything [...]

Barry Griblin

We’ve finally connected with the one and only Barry Griblin here in Vancouver. We are so excited to have Barry on board with Coast Modern. We’ve long admired his early work and are excited to see his current work (the photos are incredible). Barry is a really important piece of the CoMo puzzle as he’s [...]

Update From The Edit Suite

We survived the holidays and are back in full swing here at Coast Modern. We want to thank everyone who has purchased one of our lovely posters, the response has been incredible and the support is greatly appreciated. As some of you may know, we undertook the daunting task of reshooting everything in glorious HD [...]

Schindler Masterpiece For Rent

CoMo pal Joe DeMarie in Los Angeles has Studio 2 of Rudolf Schindler’s 1941 Bubeshko Apartments in Silverlake up for rent. We visited Joe at the complex and were truly blown away by the quality of light and sense of tranquility in these spaces. Details: RM SCHINDLER MASTERPIECE – THE BUBESHKO APARTMENTS One of the [...]

Twenty + Change

Our friends down at the Charles H. Scott Gallery are launching a new show that runs August 13 to September 3 at their excellent gallery on Granville Island. Do stop in to check the current crop of emerging Canadian architects, landscape designers and urban planners. Keep an eye out for CoMo pal Greg Bellerby’s book [...]

Coast Modern Poster

Original artwork and poster design from Byron O’Neill—mixed and pulled by master printer Matt Mayer and team over at JDK. This beautiful handmade piece contains elements from our graphics platform Byron designed for the film. The look of this poster speaks volumes to the film’s spirit. The first five will be released at Vancouver Special’s [...]