Sketches – Nathaniel Brooks

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Sketches – Nathaniel Brooks

Matt Falco has been writing some great posts about architectural sketching.  You can see them here and here.  He’s also spoken highly of the website Urban Sketchers. I thought it might be nice for Blueprint for Design to start featuring some artists.  So, our first feature is on Nathaniel Brooks.  He and I worked together [...]

Heat and Repeat

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Heat and Repeat

So with Memorial Day weekend over the nation will be thinking of things like air conditioning as the summer officially kicks off. Today, I am going out line manifolded ductless heat pumps. I was able to learn firsthand about these systems working on a LEED hotel in Colorado. I want to give readers some background [...]

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 [...]

Changes

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Changes

Change can be exciting. New beginnings, going forth into uncharted territories, so much fun you can puke. Joking aside, change can be hard to handle, especially for a construction project. If change isn’t managed properly  by all team members, it can shut down a job. When is change good? Change can fit into a project, [...]

GIS and Due Diligence

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GIS and Due Diligence

Hello fellow designers and planners, this is my first blog for Blueprint For Design, I hope you find it useful. This article is about using GIS to gather information for planning architectural projects. First, what is GIS? Geographic-Information System – those who have not used them before these are systems that store property tax information, [...]

Hockey Logos

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Hockey Logos

As the Chicago Blackhawks are cruising through the playoffs I’ve been thinking about hockey a lot lately.  After the popularity of a previous post on Minor League Baseball Logos, I wondered if other sports had unique minor league teams and logos. Much to my surprise there are some pretty cool logos in the world of [...]

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