We are entering into the stage of the project in Miami where the real challenges are making themselves known. I am used to this. To me, this is not stressful. No one’s money is being wasted, nothing has been ordered. No irrevocable changes have been made. Right now, it’s just pictures [...]
Realistic expectations. Get some.
The service triangle is just one grouping of three clients need to be realistic about. The other one is how their budget breaks down. That falls into three parts also:
Fees(design/architectural/permits)
Materials
Construction/labor.
With a limited amount of money (as opposed to unlimited- not necessarily low-budget), you have to understand the relationship between these things and know where you’re [...]
There’s always a food analogy to be made.
I took the weekend off from writing, largely figuring with the holidays and all, no one was really online anyway except me. But I didn’t take the weekend off from working. In fact I got a lot done on the Miami house project, which is starting to congeal.
Yes, I said congeal. I find [...]
There’s TV, and then there’s reality.
There is no such thing as reality TV, despite what network executives would have you believe. We already have mediums for reality- they’re called documentary film making and journalism (assuming that the individuals involved are actually trying to closely portray events as they happen, not as they create them.)
Design television is neither of these [...]
Tools of the trade.
This is one of those posts where it’s stuff that designers/architects/engineers already know all too well, but the general public doesn’t quite have a handle on it as well as (at least I) wish they would.
Though what we do is a creative job, at the heart of it, it is a technical job (see: differences [...]
It is dark. You are likely to be eaten by a guest blogger.
I was just interrupted by an IM window in the middle of getting some key dimensions into AutoCAD. Lousy timing usually, but today, the timing couldn’t be more perfect. It beats the hell out of mine, anyway.
I am up to my armpits in design work today, hopefully getting the bulk of the bones [...]
I hate to say this, but..
I don’t often take an instant dislike to a restaurant interior. Usually if I don’t like it, is because I’m just not impressed. I think “meh.” and I move on. It’s rare that something makes me uncomfortable just looking at it, like a big old dose of “Do not want.” I always [...]
A new way of looking at it.
I wish I knew how to credit these images Stacy tells me they have come from Shanghai, China (see comments for the whole song and dance), but they came to me in an email forward that had been forwarded a zillion times already. Though they basically speak for themselves, the concept I [...]
Permission to sit.
So I’ve been working on this idea for some furniture lately. I know a lot of people get their ideas through sketching. Sometimes I do that, but a lot of the time I do it with photography, because I am more comfortable with my abilities with a camera than with a pen most [...]
The service triangle.
Though I mentioned this on Friday briefly, yesterday’s massive construction accident brings the concept back to the fore in stark relief.
The service triangle will not be denied. Though the full set of circumstances of yesterday’s crane failure in Manhattan are not yet known, the bits and pieces that are known point to at its [...]
