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2006 Pratt Institute Winner – Conceal Shelf.2006 Housewares Design Award – The Magino Stool.2003 Good Design Award at the Chicago Athenaeum Museum – Bungee Card Case.2001 Premier’s Award for Outstanding Achievement from the colleges of Ontario – Paul Rowan.2000 Permanent Collection The Museum of Modern Art, NYC, Dept.1999 Permanent SF MOMA Objects, San Francisco – OH Chair.1999 Brooklyn Museum of Art – Garbino.1999 Good Design Award at the Chicago Athenaeum Museum – Juxta, Suma, Tri, Jumbo, bi, and Rim Bowls, Slip Shoe Horn.1999 Best Collection Award at the New York Accent on Design Show.1998 Best Design Strategy Award at the Design Effectiveness Awards.1997 Good Design Award at the Chicago Athenaeum Museum – Garbino.The products are sold through the independent retailers and the Umbra Shift website. Umbra Shift is a brand extension of Umbra that utilizes higher end materials and different production techniques. These chairs are still in the firm's catalogue today. Rashid also designed the OH Chair for Umbra a "scoop" of plastic, making use of negative space, modeled into a chair. In 1997, it earned the Chicago Athenaeum Good Design Award. It was donated to the Brooklyn Museum in 1999 and added into the permanent collection at the Museum of Modern Art in 2000. It sold more than two million units within the first two years of production and continues to sell today in a miniature version, GARBINO.

The wastebasket was named after actress Greta Garbo, mimicking the shape of her body. In 1996, Umbra teamed up with Rashid to create what would become one of the company’s most well-known products the GARBO trash can. Notable ones who have made significant contributions to Umbra include Karim Rashid, Hlynur Atlason, and Harry Allen.

Many independent designers have also collaborated with the firm. Umbra has an in-house design team headed by Matt Carr, consisting of over 30 designers in Canada and abroad. 2008 Retail Store Design Award by the Retail Council of Canada.The building in plan is a rectangle with a smaller rectangle offset to the middle that is positioned off center towards the main elevation. The overall axis of the structure is predominantly vertical with a centralized plan. In comparison to the surrounding architecture the building is considerably smaller. The building has translucent bright pink vertical bands that wrap a glass structure positioned on the corner of a side street, surrounded by monotone brick construction. The building was constructed for the Umbra design company in 2007 to a design by Kohn Shnier Architects. The Umbra Store is located north of Queen Street West at 165 John Street within the downtown core of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
