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My most recent positive experience?
 
I was out of work for 90 weeks after taking up employment with the firm I interned while studying for my MLA.  I applied to every LA firm in the country in every state (even the ones where my far left political views would be less well received than normal).  Finally, I pretty much gave up looking for an LA jo…[Read more]

I just wanted to say that your print design work looks really great!

This is good news! I wish you a lot of luck and hope you land one of the jobs.

Super cute website! I commend anyone for stepping out of the box and making new connections.Just because I know how to use InDesign doesn’t make me a graphic designer any more then a person that takes a plants class is a landscape architect. So not sure what the knickers in a bunch crowd is so worked up about. I appreciated what you had to say…[Read more]

😉 I must say it’s been pretty enlightening …..

Oh, good lord.  Chill with the histrionics.  It was meant as a joke, albeit a snarky one.

Doesn’t look like you used Blurb, Nick, but for anyone who is interested in publishing a book of their own work for portfolio use or marketing its very affordable with good print and paper quality. I’ve published several ‘books’ and they have all turned out well. I put ‘books’ in parenthesis because they were really photography collections, not…[Read more]

That looks great.  I really should’ve kept more of the projects I worked on.  Time to step up the game!

Thanks Jennifer. 

Second that!  Sorry, Bianca.  Most LA’s show much more courtesy and tact.  Like Mom said, “If you don’t have something nice to say…keep your trap shut!”

i like to look at hotel websites to get ideas. Tablet Hotels website is a good source for me. Here is a link to their listings in…[Read more]

I totally agree trace. It could be that I just really lucked out with some pretty cool landlords, but I just don’t see the advantage to buying a house anytime in the near future. For years the mantra was that buying a house was an investment that couldn’t go wrong…HA! Also the trend in people hopping from city to city for work is only going to…[Read more]

This might open up your thinking a bit:
 
http://urbanhabitats.org/v04n01/habitat_full.html

why not rent, until you can afford to buy,  in the place with walkability? I think the home mortgage deduction is go ing the way of the dodo, if it has not already, and it seems to me for the good of the future of the earth (less driving!) we  need to populate our inner cities – with renters!
The people of Orange County Virginia (extremely r…[Read more]

The need to transform or create quality suburbs is an important point that this article glosses over and for the most part ignores.  In my opinion, if the NAHB is as short-sighted and narrowly focused as the over-arching point of this article, they are missing a great opportunity to capture a large market.
 
My wife and I are in the process of t…[Read more]

 
The important thing to notice is that this was a National Association of Home Builders cenference (not exactly the vanguard of the design world). I think that the reason that they were presenting those boilerplate design ideas was more an outcome of who was putting on the event. The NAHB is basically a “we’ll build whatever sells” organization s…[Read more]