Peanut Butter and Jelly

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Peanut Butter and Jelly

Ah, a nice peanut butter & jelly sandwich, what can be so delicious and so easy to make? Well, maybe you’ve never had one made by an architect.  We can over-complicated even the easiest tasks… Here’s my take on a family classic as designed and submitted by yours truly. Materials (Ingredients) Provide each material as specified [...]

Phoning it In

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Phoning it In

OK, this is late and I’m phoning it in today. So let’s talk about telecommunications in buildings. Telephone service – (remember those, land lines)is usually not much of an architect’s concern, it’s really a service the client usually obtains, and we get some simple specifications on the minimum size of the telecommunications board and how [...]

Design Process – Part 4

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Design Process – Part 4

The fourth step in the design process that I typically take my clients through is review. (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3) After you’ve finished the design, it’s now time to present your work to the client for the first time. Often, this can be the most nerve racking part of the process.  Depending upon [...]

Weekly Town Crier

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Weekly Town Crier

After a long hard week, enjoy this list of random links that we feel you may want to check out. Some may involve design, some may involve small business and others may just be something random we find interesting. Keep checking our site each Friday to find out what inspires or interests us. Feel free [...]

Local News

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Local News

I enjoy local news sources, especially creative ones. Gapers Block is a Chicago web publication filled with great Chicago stories. And, they do a tremendous job keeping me updated on events around town. Besides the stories, I love checking out their Flickr Group for great photos around the Chicagoland area. Here is an example of [...]

Pursuit of Happiness

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Pursuit of Happiness

How successful is our economy for the people? How would this be measured and what would policies look like if this question were asked whenever a policy is being drafted and debated? Moreover, what does this have to do with design anyway?

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