How to Run a design Company

Emily has been a consultant to creative professionals for over 20 years providing confidential, best-practice insights and advice on staff, client, and process-management strategies, conducting client surveys and writing winning proposals, creative briefs, and contracts. Her CreativeMornings talk was insightful and filled with hands-on tips. Please enjoy Emily Cohen’s talk:

Grace Court Alley is Adorable

Also see Verandah Place, Sidney Plaza, Hunts Lane etc.  The city did a good job of keeping old world charm and the rich people did a good job of making these adorable little streets available for only the ultra wealthy.

For a full recap of all the adorable streets in NYC check out
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/Alleys/BROOKLYN%20ALLEYS/brklyn.html

Door Hardware Maven

The most intersting and important feature on the door may be the pull.  it is the element we touch and interact with it is how we feel a door - you rarely will touch the door slab. The NYT ran an article on Rhett Bulter, the NYC resident architectural hardware superstar.   Check out tyhe article.  This guy is such a dork i love it

"It’s an amazing field — it incorporates design, history, material sciences. It’s a technical thing and a decorative thing at the same time"

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/19/garden/19qna.html?ref=garden
http://www.erbutler.com/