Blueprint for Design

Thanks for checking out our brand new, hot off the press, website/blog. We’re excited about sharing our thoughts on design and what it means to have your own design practice.

Unfortunately, it’s not all design. Running a small business is often equal parts stress and reward.  The trick is to keep the two in balance. Hopefully, by following us, and this site, you may learn something to improve your skills as a designer and small business owner.   Better yet, by commenting and joining the discussion, we can help each other out.

Who, you ask, is going to write this content? To start, Matt Falco and David Pohlmeier. Matt is a licensed architect and David is a graphic designer. Both of us live in the great state of Illinois fairly close to Chicago. We’ve worked together on a variety of projects and levels and have been friends for many years. We’re hoping that combining each of our different design disciplinesalong with our business expertise we can contribute  some great content.

Design is a funny thing. If done well, you don’t notice it. If done poorly, you can’t stop talking about it.  As the saying goes: “Success has a thousand fathers.  Failure is an orphan.”

Here at Blueprint for Design, we are intent on creating  community. A place where we can share ideas about design, good or bad, and discuss the issues related to being an entrepreneur.

One of our main objectives for this blog is to create a community of like minded professionals. Having guest articles from different professional backgrounds would be awesome. If you would like to contribute, please visit our Become an Author page to find out more. We want to learn from your experience and find out what makes you successful in design and small business.

Please give us your thoughts, there is a community of us that will appreciate it.