http://www.artoberfest.org/artist-features-topmenu-56/24-featured-artists/214-tim-leefeldt.html Architect / Environmental Graphics & Special Events / Store Planner / Product Designer / Toy Designer Architest Puzzles ® www.architest.net Insulatorlights ® Insulatorworks, Insulatorware www.insulatorlights.com Accommodation of Excellence, ACI and the AIA Industrial Fabrics Association International Awards: YMCA Board Member River Partners Member, Summer ‘07
Tim is an architect and lighting designer living in Chico. He grew up in the Bay Area and spent time in Chico in the late 70’s. He attended lewis & Clark College as a Communucations major in the mid 70's before moving to Chico in 1979 to carpenter and designed the landscape, entry structures and gazebo for a custom 3 story residence in Chico. He took classes at Chico State before applying to the U of O School of Architecture & Allied Arts. After graduating with a Bachelor of Architecture, he attended a Syracuse University Graduate Program and lived abroad outside Florence Italy for a year. In 1984 he returned to San Francisco for twenty years before moving his family to Butte Valley five years ago.
Tim is an inventor and manufacturer/designer of several products including a pendant lighting product line and home decorative products using old glass and ceramic insulators, traffic light lenses and railroad hardware that are sold in local specialty shops and nationally. Tim designs and makes these products in Chico. His mission is to reuse and re-purpose common glass insulators, traffic light lenses, railroad parts and other common industrial objects and transform these artifacts and relics into useful modern light fixtures and other useful products.
Stores selling his products include: Zucchini & Vine, Bird in Hand in Chico, Wolfe Electric and J&J lighting, and OMEGA II, Metro Lighting in Berkeley and Napa Style Catalog.
WEB SITES
2004 - Award of Excellence - NBA All-Star Weekend '04
2004 - Outstanding Achievement Award - Super Bowl XXXVIII
2004 - Outstanding Achievement Award - Tropicana Field
2003 - Outstanding Achievement Award - Super Bowl XXXVII
2002 - Outstanding Achievement Award - Pro Bowl
2001 - Award of Excellence - Fed Ex Orange Bowl
2000 - Outstanding Achievement Award - Super Bowl XXXV
1999 - Design Award - First Prize - Fiesta Bowl
1996 - Achievement Award - First Prize - Super Bowl XXX
Industry Periodical Features:
Super Bowl XXXVII project featured in Apr '03 issue of Digital Graphics Magazine
Super Bowl XXXVII project features in May '03 issue of Industrial Fabrics Review
Pro Bowl Project Cover featured in February '02 issue of Digital Graphics Magazine
Emeryville Train Station Interior project featured in April '96 issue of Fabrics in Architecture