The publication was a godsend to designers in a range of disciplines – interior, fashion, furniture, industrial, architectural and graphic – and evolved into an international entity
In the mid-1980s, the Canadian design landscape was relatively barren – not in talent, but in media infrastructure. A newly trained crop of talented interdisciplinary designers, many of whom had graduated into a lingering recession, had few opportunities to showcase their ideas. For many of them, that would soon change when Nelda Rodger, working with her partner Sergio Sgaramella, co-founded Azure magazine in 1985. When Ms. Rodger died on Jan.
Nelda Rodger was born in Sault Ste. Marie on Jan. 28, 1952. After studying English literature at York University in Toronto, she began a career in fashion, importing clothing from Italy. As her interest in design deepened, she moved to Milan to attend the Istituto Marangoni, where she learned to make patterns for clothing. It was there that she met a young Italian freelance journalist, Mr. Sgaramella, who would soon become both her life and business partner.
She worked intensely – sometimes mercurially, losing the occasional staffer in the process – but her headstrong determination paid off. “She loved big ideas,” adds Jessica Johnson, who worked as Ms. Rodger’s senior editor for a year before spending over five years as editor-in-chief of The Walrus magazine. “She wanted to get conversations going about the future: how we live now and how we should live.”
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