Finish boards: every designer knows what these are. They are one of the “A, B, C’s” to what we do. But it always surprises me on how long it takes to get them turned out looking professional. It’s one of those things that we do that no one else understands until they have to do …
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DESIGN SHADOW: FURNITURE DESIGN COMPETITION
Sandler Seating, a furniture manufacturer that I have specified their product for on projects, announced a competition. The challenge? To submit a wining chair design: a design that would expand one of their specified product lines. The prize? A one week, full expenses paid, trip to Venice, Italy to work with the manufacturer to develop …
DESIGN SHADOW: ESTIMATING PROJECT HOURS AND TRACKING ORDERS
TIDLIC. At work we try very hard to be accountable to the hours it takes for a person who is assigned to a project or task. It’s the only responsible thing to do when it comes to keeping employees employed and running a financially sound business. To this end the Project Managers (PMs ) assign …
DESIGN SHADOW: INTERNATIONAL WORK IN AFRICA, PART SIX
To see the first posting on this series go here Today went by fast. We started early and headed to a stone supplier and fabricator and looked at the range of stone slabs that come out of the Africa, called “African Range.” We have selected one of these for the project. We also have a …
DESIGN SHADOW: INTERNATIONAL WORK IN AFRICA, PART CINQ (FIVE)
Yesterday was a great day even though I had to wear the same clothes for from 8 am on Thursday all the way through 4:30 pm on Friday; which included an 8 hour flight during the night. A consultant of ours, who lives here in Johannesburg (J-burg) was here to pick me up from my …
DESIGN SHADOW: INTERNATIONAL WORK IN AFRICA, PART QUATRE (FOUR)
Today we – the whole team of 7 – minus one, drove to the capital of Côte d’Ivoire. This was the place we started to go when we had the bus incident. It took us about 3 hours… Blah! But it was good to see the country side and we had good conversation and fun. …
DESIGN SHADOW: INTERNATIONAL WORK IN AFRICA – PART TROIS (three)
This post is a continuous posting of a business trip to Africa. Go here for the first of the series post. Today we started the day by meeting as a group. Last night the rest of our Utah base team arrived – the lead Architect, and 3 of our consultants. With these new arrivals and the local …
DESIGN SHADOW: INTERNATIONAL WORK IN AFRICA PART DEUX (TWO)
The client and I woke up today with plans to head to the capital of Ivory Coast – Yamoussoukro. They have some buildings there we wanted to tour and inspect, including the Basilica for the Catholic Church. But we had a change of plans… The client and I were traveling with an interpreter to see …
DESIGN SHADOW: INTERNATIONAL WORK IN AFRICA – Part Un (one)
Bonjour! I have recently returned from French speaking Cote D’ivoire (Ivory Coast) Africa. I was there to spend a week working to establish relationships with local manufacturers and suppliers and also to inspect the quality of construction for newly completed construction work. This is all for an up and coming building project in the city …
DESIGN SHADOW on RENDERING
Today was a continuation of more time working with the renderers (affectionately labeled “render monkeys”) for a project. This particular client values renderings so much that we spend a lot of time on the front end to show design progression. Previous to today I had given them furniture cut sheets, light fixture designs/drawings and mill-work …
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