The Business of Design

Category: Clients

  • Cultural Design: Is This My Story to Tell?

    As a landscape architect, I subscribe to the idea that within our designs we are trying to convey stories. At the beginning of any effort, one of the most important questions is, “Whose story am I trying to tell?”. More important than that question is, “Is this story mine to tell?”. For many of our…

  • Design: What Are You Buying?

    Return on investment within design is an interesting spectrum of bare bones functions to excess.

  • Freedom of Time

    Life requires balance, and much of balance can be viewed as how we value our time and how we spend it. How we choose to expend effort in our lives (i.e. work) has a spectrum between expended effort that is love with no cash, and effort that is cash with no love. The goal is…

  • Coaching, Mentoring and Metaphor

    It is essential that we find the ways to achieve mutual understanding with those around us. There are short-cuts to a more full understanding, but every shortcut comes with accompanying risks. We minimize risks with doing our research, and with establishing a framework for dialogue and iterative refinement. In short, we need to learn how…