Tobias Wong, the Vancouver born, New York based artist best known for his gold pills, and his sun jar just passed away on May 31, 2010. Tobias was one of the more popular artists that came out of Emily Carr, and I remember seeing these gold pills at Colette and was stoked to see someone from Vancouver making it big. The concept behind the pills were that you would swallow them and then your shit would have gold flakes in them. Strange to me, but it gets props for originality.
His death was ruled as a suicide. It is sad to see such a loss to the Canadian and international design community.
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