This week has been an exciting week for me. I was able to pick up two more projects! What is more important is that they are two new clients; corporations/entities that we haven’t worked with before. It has been a long time in the making – building relationships and doing good work on past projects. The …
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DESIGN SHADOW: SPECIFICATIONS
When I was in school, the subject we talked least about, but since being out of school I wished I had known the most about – Specifications, aka “Specs.” These documents literally become binding contracts to the designs we create and if they don’t align with your designs – your designs won’t be created per …
DESIGN SHADOW: CD DRAWING REVIEW
This week we have a deadline for one of our projects: Our architectural drawings must be 95% complete. That means we hand over an almost complete set of documents to the owner for their review and comment. To get to this point, the whole team has their own portion of the work to …
DESIGN SHADOW: DD PRESENTATION
Picture this – a room full of 15 or so individuals – architects, designers and various owner invested parties, most of which are in ties and dresses, surrounding a table – strewn with lunch meals, architectural drawings and finish materials for the whole building – down to the fabric for the chairs being used. This …
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: TEST FIT
I received a cold call from a potential client the other day. This company’s executive had been referred to me and our company by a number of individuals. He asked if I could meet with him to explore the expansion of his business into a new commercial space – giving them potentially more square footage …
DESIGN SHADOW: UNIVERSITY PRESENTATIONS AND CUSTOM FURNITURE PROCESS
When Brigham Young University closed their Interior Design Program 14 years ago, it limited the options and paved the way for other local universities programs to gain more support. And then with the closing of Brigham Young University – Idaho’s program this past year, Utah and Idaho have been left with only two CIDA accredited …
DESIGN SHADOW: LOBBY FURNITURE SELECTION
Often I have little small projects that come up. Little projects that pay by the hour and don’t take much coordination on the meeting end of things – but more time on following the design through and getting all the product ordered and to the site. Currently one of these projects is for a small …
DESIGN SHADOW: A DESIGNER’S ROLE ON THE TOTEM POLE
I am working on a project where the firm I work for is the local architect and we are partnered with a larger national firm from another state. The national firm leads out on the architecture and interior design and we support where we can and then are responsible for getting ready all the documents …
DESIGN SHADOW: OLD SCHOOL FURNITURE MAKING
I spent the day on the road traveling around the valley to various furniture workers that I am using on some projects. The purpose of the visits were to inspect the quality of the work, answers questions of the fabricators and just plain see how the furniture is coming along. It is a very exciting thing …
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