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Are You Designing a Legacy?

by Adam King on November 7, 2009

If you’re a professional interior designer or architect, you no doubt are aware of helping your client express themselves with the overall design of their home. In essence you’re providing an expression of your client’s values, beliefs, and principles. Hopefully, you’re also working with the rare customer who is employing you to design around their [...]

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“There exists the yearn for beauty within everyone. To define that beauty is a learning process in which one discovers and reflects upon one’s primary honor.” – from Yanagi Soetsu’s essay On Collecting
When you’re involved in the art world, inevitably, people ask the same questions. “How did you get started? Where [...]

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Your Inner Woodworker

by Adam King on February 28, 2009

The world of furniture restoration can afford many lessons to the novice as well as the veteran. Repairs and restoration seem to come through the shop regularly. So, naturally, that would lead one to conclude that I do indeed receive a fair amount of teaching in the course of these repairs. For the most part [...]

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Winning Strategy for Designing with Clients

by Adam King on February 8, 2009

This article is a guest post from Jason Fleming. Jason is a graphic designer from Colorado Springs who also possesses a keen eye for furniture design and construction.
Here, Jason presents a simple and clear strategy for meeting your client’s needs with your designs.

Every day, as a graphic designer, I am trying to bring the [...]

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Sketch Your Way to Design Success

by Adam King on January 3, 2009

So, you have these ideas, thoughts, images, all floating around in your head. Now what? How do you go about transforming these ideas into reality? While everyone’s methods of design are different, there is still a systematic approach to the basics of good design. Over the next few posts, I will take a look at [...]

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