mkda is an industrial design studio run by Miles Keller and located in Toronto, Canada. Our clients have included Corning Glass, Herman Miller, Teknion, The Getty Museum, Umbra, and Zenon Environmental. We firmly believe design is firstly about improving peoples lives through creative thinking and the implementation of new ideas. Services encompass all aspects of the design process including concept development, mechanical & product design, marketing strategy, human factors studies and production methodology.
what others think
Awards include the ID Magazine Annual Design Review (1989), the IDEA Awards (1997, 2005), the Virtu Canadian Design Awards (1995, 6, 7, 8, 9), the IIdex/NeoCon Canada Awards (2002), the Best of Canada Design Awards (2002), and the Good Design Award (2002, 2003, 2004, 2005). In 2005 mkda was awarded a silver IDEA award for the ZW1000 municipal water filtration system by Zenon Environmental. These awards are recognised as "the world's most prestigious and coveted design accolade".
where we come from
Miles graduated from the Ontario College of Art and Design (OCAD) in industrial design in 1989. He has also studied architecture at the University of British Columbia and industrial design at the University of Calgary. Miles has served on the boards of the both the Financial Post Design Effectiveness Awards and the Humane Village international design conference. He was elected president of the Association of Chartered Industrial Designers of Ontario (ACIDO) in 1996 and served for two terms until 2000.
shape our lives, define the future, give life meaning.....
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416 832 7310 I miles_mkda.ca
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