This iconic Canadian artist and author is creating a light show on Canada’s new border crossing [Video]

He’s created light shows on the sides of skyscrapers. He’s written books that popularized terms like “Generation X.”

Now, Vancouver’s Douglas Coupland has a new artistic goal — using nearly 5,000 white lights to illuminate the Gordie Howe International Bridge. 

The bridge authority announced Thursday that Coupland won a competitive bid to light up the $6.4-billion bridge, which will connect Detroit to Windsor, Ont., when it opens next year. 

Coupland’s designs have included an installation called “Northern Lights” on Calgary’s Telus Sky Tower, and a War of 1812 memorial in Toronto. But he says the bridge display is his most high-profile public art project to date. 

“It’s huge,” he said of the bridge. “When I first looked at it, I …