Convo By Design®
432 episodes - English - Latest episode: 11 days ago - ★★★★★ - 39 ratingsA podcast dedicated to promoting the ideas of architects, artists, designers, tastemakers and those making a difference in the way we live. Design is personal as is a good conversation. Copyright © Fusion Media Management, Inc. 2013-2021 All rights reserved.
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Let’s Take This Outside | 320 | Activating Every Square Foot of Available Outdoor Space
April 13, 2021 14:54 - 1 hour - 62 MBYou might think the dead of winter is not the time to talk about outdoor entertaining. Creatives coast to coast are experimenting with outdoor spaces in climate-challenged environments from sub-freezing to blazing desert-scapes. When the ultimate challenge is finding ways to activate space, year-round, that’s when design get’s interesting. This conversation was recorded in January of this year, with a focus on figuring out how new ideas in landscape architecture and activated outdoor spaces c...
Wellness & Design Leadership Series | 319 | The Promotion of Design
April 06, 2021 14:35 - 56 minutes - 51.9 MBI’m Josh Cooperman and this is Convo By Design with a solution for one of the biggest challenges you face as a busy design professional. This conversation is going to change the way you do business. Really, it’s all about the promotion of design.Promotion and marketing are two issues, one issue really but often conflated, that confound most creatives, and simply frustrate the rest. The socials are not user friendly, people don’t tell you what they want to see and if you are focused on the wor...
The Showroom featuring Susan Ferrier | 318 | Exploring the Essence and Emotion of Design
March 30, 2021 15:11 - 1 hour - 60.3 MBThis is Convo By Design with another installment of The Showroom presented by Walker Zanger featuring the incomparable Susan Ferrier of Susan Ferrier Interiors. In life, you will cross paths with truly unique people, and if you are like me, you relish those moments. You want them to last. This is how I describe my conversation with designer Susan Ferrier. She is an award-winning creative, check. Her work is well-published, check. Ferrier is a member of the Design Leadership Network, check. S...
The Evolution of The Modern Creative Hub | 317 | The Beck
March 23, 2021 14:17 - 59 minutes - 54.5 MBThis is Convo By Design with a new type of resource for design creatives from the Hudson Valley in upstate New York. The Beck is a creative resource and the brain child of Ana Claudia Schultz of Ana Claudia Design and her husband, Aaron Smyle, a tax professional. Located in downtown Rhinebeck, here is how Ana Claudia and Aaron define their business. "The Beck amplifies local creative voices and engages with the Hudson Valley community. Dutchess County’s new creative hub serves as a multi-purp...
Resort Living Made Modern | 316 | If You Love Luxury Resorts, Why Not Make one Home
March 16, 2021 14:45 - 1 hour - 57.6 MBI’m Josh Cooperman and this is Convo By Design with an exploration of luxury design through the lens of Montage Hotels and Resorts and a focused look at the new Healdsburg residences.If you love luxury travel, a visit to one of the global Montage Resorts is probably on the list of things you long for. Montage has earned a reputation for crafting unique experiences that are authentic to each resort location. Montage International is a company built to provide ultra-luxe, unique lodging experie...
SPECIAL EPISODE: Rocky LaFleur | Celebrating a Design Icon
March 14, 2021 15:53 - 41 minutes - 37.8 MBThis is Convo By Design Today, we are saying goodbye to a friend and celebrating an amazing person and giant in Southern California’s design community, Rocky LaFleur.There are some people you encounter in life who make you feel better, they make you better and they lift up those around them. Rocky LaFleur was the embodiment of that. As long as I knew him, he always had a smile on his face and a word of encouragement. Rocky had a passion for his longtime friends and an openness to make new one...
Lone Star House of Design | Beth Bender of The Dove Agency
March 11, 2021 15:39 - 35 minutes - 32.7 MBThis is Lone Star House of Design, a podcast about all things design and architecture from the Great State of Texas. This week, you are going to hear from Beth Bender, co-founder of the Dove Agency, a strategic planning firm based in Dallas. If the name sounds familiar, it is. Beth Moderated a recent panel for Lone Star House of Design and I invited her back because the work she and her firm does deserves some love. The Dove Agency provides back office support for design professionals. They a...
The Showroom featuring Tamara Rene Design | 315 | Producing Meaningful Design with (and for) Purpose and Joy
March 10, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour - 55.4 MBThis is Convo By Design and in this episode of the podcast, we feature another installment of The Showroom, a partnership between Convo By Design and Walker Zanger featuring designer, Tamara Avila, the creative force behind Tamara Rene Designs in Seal Beach, California.Tammy is the rare designer who also owns and operates a design showroom. Many designers think about opening a showroom, or more precisely, thought about it prior to COVID, but will be thinking about it again when things return ...
Lone Star House of Design | Wellness & Design Thought Leadership Series Presented By ThermaSol, Texas Edition
March 04, 2021 16:07 - 1 hour - 56.2 MBThis is Lone Star House of Design, a podcast about all things design and architecture from the Great State of Texas. Following is another installment of The Wellness and Design Thought Leadership Series presented by ThermaSol. This conversation, as previously mentioned is from the Wellness and Design Thought Leadership Series presented by ThermaSol. This conversation features designers; Cindy Aplanalp-Yates, Allison Jaffe and Cheri Etchelecu. It is moderated by Dove Agency founder, Beth Bende...
The Magic City of Tulsa, Oklahoma | 314 | A World Class Architecture and Design City with a Memory and A Heart
March 02, 2021 15:42 - 1 hour - 97.6 MBThis is Convo By Design with a two part special about The Magic City…Tulsa, Oklahoma. In the 1920’s, Tulsa Oklahoma was called the ‘magic city’ because of the things that were happening as a result of the oil boom. The Cushing Field was discovered at the beginning of the 1900’s which saw the population explode from just over 7,000 in 1907 to over 72,000 in 1920. Names like Waite Phillips, J. Paul, Getty, Henry Sinclair and John D. Rockefeller came to Tulsa and built a world-class city arou...
Lone Star House of Design | Allison Jaffe Interior Design
February 26, 2021 15:39 - 57 minutes - 52.2 MBThis is Lone Star House of Design a showcase of divine design from the great State of Texas featuring Allison Jaffe, an Austin designer whose cerebral approach to design is nothing short of genius. We talk about the psychology of design quite often on the podcast because it isn’t easy to understand what someone really wants the design to ‘feel’ like. Allison didn’t start as a designer, to the contrary, she started by pursuing the sciences, specifically, a degree in neuropsychology from the Un...
The State of Design : Colorado | 313 | Wellness & Design Thought Leadership Series
February 23, 2021 17:17 - 1 hour - 57.2 MBThis is Convo By Design with a spotlight on the state of design in Colorado, part of the Wellness and Thought Leadership Series presented by ThermaSol. Colorado is America’s playground with four seasons, almost any recreational activity one can imagine and a fun-loving, adventurous spirit. This draws a wide variety of individuals and an abundance of opportunities for crafting unique and spectacular design. With opportunity come equal challenges from harsh weather conditions to extreme topogra...
Domos Coliving | 312 | Coliving, The Future of Flex-Living and Finding Balance between Private Space and Shared Amenities
February 16, 2021 16:20 - 1 hour - 57.9 MBThis is Convo By Design featuring Daniel Alexander and Richard Loring of Domos Coliving. From Millennials moving back home to traditional multi-generational cohabitation, the idea of coliving has not only gained steam, but taken hold in cities across the U.S. Home ownership once the foundational idea behind the American dream is, in many circle giving way to the idea the coliving provides all someone wants and nothing they don’t. But what role does design play when you are catering to the man...
Lone Star House of Design | Pulp Studios – One Firm, 2 Cities & Sublime Design
February 11, 2021 16:13 - 54 minutes - 49.8 MBThis is Lone Star House of Design a showcase of divine design from the great State of Texas featuring Beth Dotolo and Carolina Gentry, the design team behind Pulp Studios.When a design team captures market share in two states, typically, it’s New York and LA or San Francisco. This design team behind Pulp Studios has targeted Dallas and Seattle. Two cities with gaining momentum and exploding populations prior to COVID, but post-Covid, these two cities are pulling in new residents from the like...
Wellness & Design Thought Leadership Series | 311 | The Business of Design
February 09, 2021 15:40 - 1 hour - 59.2 MBThis is Convo By Design with something you need right now, business strategies that will help you take your design business to the next level. Wellness and design thought leadership presented by ThermaSol.I wanted to give you something to start the year off right and in doing so, partnered with ThermaSol to bring you a series covering high concepts with actionable strategies you can use starting today. As we enter 2021 and think to the future, we should also take some time to consider our bus...
Lone Star House of Design | Kyle Bunting
February 04, 2021 15:33 - 53 minutes - 48.5 MBThis is Lone Star House of Design, a podcast about legendary design from the great State of Texas featuring creative icon, Kyle Bunting.Kyle Bunting transformed the idea of Hide rugs into a symbol of luxury. Such a simple idea, but not easily done. The original source for rugs and decor that Bunting has reimagined into objects with intricate design, shocking colors, masterful production and turned into bespoke objects of design luxury. This is truly an example of something so simple turning i...
Sandra Vlock | 310 | Transformation, Following Your Passion and Taking A New Path
February 02, 2021 15:55 - 52 minutes - 48.4 MBWhat if you decided to abandon your profession to follow your passion, what would happen? You know you’ve thought about it. Who hasn’t thought about ditching the job to do what you love. I say that knowing most of you listening are in the design and architecture industry and having spoken with so many of you, know that you love what you do, even so, I also know many have that secret talent, that passion to do something else. Yes, It's scary.Sandra Vlock is an architect by education and an art...
Lone Star House of Design | Yates Desygn, Traci Connell Interiors & Bandd Design
January 28, 2021 16:06 - 1 hour - 58 MBThis is Lone Star House of Design, a showcase of amazing design and architecture from the Great State of Texas. This is a look back at some of the talent making Texas a hotbed for new, amazing, and world-class design. Mike and Bryan created Yates Desygn in 2015 and have been practicing in Dallas ever since. Important to know, and you will hear how they hung a shingle in Texas without knowing anyone in Texas. They are going to share how they networked and built their firm from scratch. This is...
The Showroom featuring The Brownstone Boys | 309 | Restoring Beautiful Brownstones
January 26, 2021 15:51 - 58 minutes - 53.4 MBWe're taking you on a virtual trip to New York for a visit with The Brownstone Boys in another episode of The Showroom, a partnership between Convo By Design and Walker Zanger.This is a deep design dive with Barry and Jordan, The Brownstone Boys. I love what these two are doing, they brought their passion for design and brownstones to a boil and focus exclusively on bringing traditional brownstones back to their original glory. They started with their own Brooklyn Brownstone and blogged about...
Lone Star House of Design | Kim Armstrong, Abbe Fenimore & Ann Edgerton
January 21, 2021 16:27 - 1 hour - 57.9 MBThis is Lone Star House of Design, a showcase of amazing design and architecture from the Great State of Texas. This is a look back at some of the talents making Texas a hotbed for new, amazing, and world-class design. Ann Edgerton is an interior decorator and stylist from Austin and we spoke about wide-open spaces that seem appropriate when talking about ideas emanating from Texas. Ann has a very unique design signature that maximizes space, proportion, and product blending to create unique ...
Paul McClean | 308 | A Master of Modern Architecture
January 19, 2021 15:44 - 59 minutes - 54.3 MBThis is Convo By Design with an architect that is single hardly redefining what is possible in modern residential architecture, this is Paul McClean...Paul McClean is one of those rare individuals who knew what he wanted to do at a very young age. Rarer still is growing up to change that space into your vision of what it should be. McClean grew up in Ireland and made his way to Southern California by way of Sydney, Australia. His work uses clean lines, site-specific features that make the mos...
Lone Star House of Design | 3 Design Firms Changing The Way We Think About Design in Texas
January 14, 2021 15:52 - 56 minutes - 51.7 MBThis is Lone Star House of Design, a showcase of amazing design and architecture from the Great State of Texas. This is a look back at some of the talents making Texas a hotbed for new, amazing, and world-class design. The first episode featured an amazing designer and a really good friend. Tracy Martin Taylor is the principal designer behind Eleven 11 Design. She is also a former boss of mine when I lived in Dallas. Tracy is a creative mind like none I have met before. Her creativity is imme...
The Showroom featuring Gail Davis | 307 | From Fashion to Interiors with a Focus on Balance & Perspective
January 12, 2021 15:40 - 56 minutes - 51.8 MBGail Davis is an extraordinary designer. She is equally talented a conversationalist. I don’t say this lightly. If you know me, if you have been listening to the podcast for any amount of time you know that I take great pride in bringing you conversations that inspire you, challenge my guests, and provide takeaways that showcase the stories behind sublime design. That being said, Gail is sharp as a tack, she and I share a low tolerance for BS and a fondness for a good bourbon. Sometimes, they...
Lone Star House of Design | Ashley Moore of Moore House Interiors on Intentional Design
January 07, 2021 16:08 - 44 minutes - 41.2 MBWhat does that really mean, intentional design? Isn’t all design, ‘intentional’? I really thought so prior to speaking with Ashley, but, as I always do through these conversations, I learned something. Intentional has many different meanings to different people. The intent of crafting space with a purposeful goal of blending old and new while crafting a unique space specifically with the individual for whom the space is crafted is an art form that requires a great deal of focus and applied cr...
2020 Kingston Design House | 306 | High Style and Ingenuity in the Hudson River Valley
January 05, 2021 15:52 - 1 hour - 103 MBThis is Convo By Design with a virtual visit to the Kingston Showhouse. Hey, are you as tired of the word ‘virtual’ as I am? As tired of the word ‘virtual’ as I am, without the ability to have these conversations, we would not have access to designers and showcase houses in parts of the country like the Hudson Valley in upstate New York. The 2020 showcase includes work by; Ana Claudia Design, Ariana S. Winston, Jennifer Salvimini, KD Reid interiors, Patrick Ryan’s Office, Stone Ridge Landsca...
Maggie Griffin | 304 | Designing Atlanta with Southern Charm and A European Flair for Style
December 29, 2020 17:05 - 50 minutes - 46.6 MBMaggie Griffin is a fabulous Atlanta based designer who has mastered the feel of Southern charm, yet fine-tuned her craft in Europe while studying in Florence, Italy. Her studies included the history of fabrics, retail marketing, and merchandising. With an obvious passion for her work and institutional knowledge and mastery of textiles, Maggie is able to craft her spaces for southern living with a European flair and that is evident in her work. Maggie, as a designer, has what I call the 'full...
New, Now and Next | 304 | Stunningly Beautiful Hygienic, Sustainable Bathroom Design
December 22, 2020 15:23 - 28 minutes - 26.1 MBThis is Bob Gifford from Hastings Tile & Bath. We met at the WestEdge Design Fair in 2019 and had a nice long chat about marketing and business development in the industry. We also talked about the full-body air dryer they were promoting at the show. Ditch the towel, this mounts inside the shower. Such a simple thing really, but consider this. How often do you wash your towels? At a time when cleanliness is of premium concern in an era where water conservation is both important and a remarka...
The Business of Kitchen Design Mastery | 303 | Exploring Experiential Kitchen Design
December 15, 2020 17:09 - 54 minutes - 50.3 MBThe kitchen is the heart of the home, always has been and you already know this. But this conversation features Julia Wong, Laurie Haefele and Shirry Dolgin, Barry Bredvik, and Kristi Nelson explores new directions and ideas about kitchen design. These three amazing designers come from different backgrounds but all have mastered interior design and truly understand the form and function of kitchen design. You are going to hear a high-level conversation that covers technology, layout, and spec...
The Showroom featuring Mikel Welch | 302 | Finding Balance, Mastering the Hi-Lo Mix and a Horse for Every Occassion
December 08, 2020 15:51 - 58 minutes - 53.3 MBOne of my greatest joys in producing Convo By Design is the exploration for and discovery of new design and architecture talent. I was familiar with Mikel Welch and his work but we had never met. Welch is producing some amazing design work. Mikel incorporates rustic charm, modern, clean lines, hints of regency, handcrafted tribal art. This blend is masterfully worked and along with an often present horse… I mention this because if the horse was, in fact, Mikel’s spirit animal, it wouldn’t sur...
Aspirational Design From the Garden State | 301 | The 2020 Aspire Design House
December 02, 2020 00:42 - 1 hour - 64.8 MBThe Aspire House: Princeton is offering a fifth edition of this designer showcase and as design houses should, this one focuses on amazing talent and unique design. The New Jersey design house will offer live tours of the house which is a novel approach in 2020 considering almost all the other design houses this year have been forced to go with virtual tours. This was my first opportunity to cover the Aspire House: Princeton and as you will hear, this cohort of design talent is extremely dive...
300th Episode Special | 300 | Seven Years, 500+ Guests, 300 Episodes and Here We Are
November 24, 2020 20:36 - 1 hour - 55.7 MBTo be completely honest, I can’t really tell you which I am more excited about, hitting episode 300 or ushering out 2020. It is completely irrational to blame anything, let alone everything that happened in the year, but I can’t remember a year as absolutely traumatic as 2020. And regardless of how you feel about the outcome of the elections, the future of a vaccine, or the return to normality, whatever that means, here is what I know. When this whole COVID thing started back in March, I star...
Lone Star House of Design | 12 | Sherry Hayslip Interiors
November 19, 2020 21:28 - 50 minutes - 46.3 MBThis is Lone Star House of Design, a showcase of amazing design and architecture from the Great State of Texas. This episode features big color, global influence and if you love art, this is for you… With work that can be found from California to Cape Cod to the Caribbean Islands and beyond, Sherry Hayslip is a Dallas based designer with a truly global perspective and an amazing gift for luxury design and art placement. Thank you, Sherry, amazing. Thank you for listening, please subscribe t...
Ryan Bloom – Urban Bonfire | 299 | A Story About Designing A Modern Company Dedicated to Your Kitchen Outdoors
November 17, 2020 17:09 - 1 hour - 60.3 MBTogether, we have shared literally hundreds of conversations since the show started 7 years ago. In that time, I have shared some absolutely incredible stories about design partnerships and I am so happy to share a story of my own with you. Last year at the WestEdge Design Fair, I met Ryan Bloom, co-founder of Urban Bonfire. He moderated a really fun conversation at the show and it ran here on Convo By Design. If you want to go back and listen, you can, it was episode 255 called, “Your Canvas...
Woods + Dangaran | 298 | The Future of California Modern Architecture
November 10, 2020 16:38 - 54 minutes - 50.2 MBIf you have been listening to the podcast for any part of the past 7 years, you understand that you are going to hear different perspectives on design and architecture. I believe that there is truly a language of architecture, and that design is about storytelling. I do this podcast because I love discovering new designers myself and thoroughly enjoy introducing them to you. If you are in the biz, it gives you a chance to meet someone whose work might influence or inspire you. If you are an e...
Michelle Lisac | 297 | Enduring Design Through Disaster, Trends and Turmoil
November 03, 2020 03:57 - 1 hour - 60.2 MBI enjoy talking about the business of design because only after you understand the business landscape and how the business works can you truly take your talents to their full potential. How many times have you seen a creative type with crazy skills but no business sense? The most frequently asked questions of me by those in the trade revolve around the brand development series of episodes and panels I offer every year in the fall. So when I have an opportunity to speak with someone like Miche...
2020 Pasadena Showcase House | 296 | Part Four of a Four Part Series
October 29, 2020 15:04 - 51 minutes - 47.4 MBThis is Convo By Design with a four-part special from one of my favorite showcase projects, the Pasadena Showcase House for the Arts presented in a whole new way. Of course, because it’s 2020..I have put together a four-part special about the Pasadena Showcase House for the Arts and this year’s presentation is vastly different from what you have become used to. This is a combination of live and phone recorded interviews with the designers from this year's showcase. Live, yes, I did make the j...
2020 Pasadena Showcase House | 295 | Part Three of a Four Part Series
October 27, 2020 23:59 - 34 minutes - 31.6 MBThis is Convo By Design with a four-part special from one of my favorite showcase projects, the Pasadena Showcase House for the Arts presented in a whole new way. Of course, because it’s 2020. I have put together a four-part special about the Pasadena Showcase House for the Arts and this year’s presentation is vastly different from what you have become used to. This is a combination of live and phone recorded interviews with the designers from this year's showcase. Live, yes, I did make the j...
2020 Pasadena Showcase House | 294 | Part Two of a Four Part Series
October 22, 2020 15:08 - 45 minutes - 41.4 MBThis is Convo By Design with a four-part special from one of my favorite showcase projects, the Pasadena Showcase House for the Arts presented in a whole new way. Of course, because it’s 2020. I have put together a four-part special about the Pasadena Showcase House for the Arts and this year’s presentation is vastly different from what you have become used to. This is a combination of live and phone recorded interviews with the designers from this year's showcase. Live, yes, I did make the ...
2020 Pasadena Showcase House | 293 | Part One of a Four Part Series
October 20, 2020 14:48 - 35 minutes - 32.3 MBThis is Convo By Design with a four-part special from one of my favorite showcase projects, the Pasadena Showcase House for the Arts presented in a whole new way. Of course, because it’s 2020.I have put together a four-part special about the Pasadena Showcase House for the Arts and this year’s presentation is vastly different from what you have become used to. This is a combination of live and phone recorded interviews with the designers from this year's showcase. Live, yes, I did make the jo...
Lone Star House of Design | 11 | Lindley Arthur
October 15, 2020 15:52 - 39 minutes - 36.6 MBThis is Lone Star | House of Design, produced and distributed by the team that brings you Convo By Design with another story about design and architecture from the Great State of Texas featuring Dallas based designer, Lindley Arthur and a chat about the pivot, second careers, and making every opportunity count…If 2020 has taught us anything it's that you have to keep your head on a swivel. Keep an eye out for the next opportunity, maximize the work you’re doing now, and stay busy, keep moving...
Caitlin Murray of Black Lacquer Design | 292 | A Fresh Perspective
October 13, 2020 16:39 - 58 minutes - 53.3 MBCaitlin Murray is the founder and creative director of Black Lacquer Design. Murray cut her teeth in the industry working for high profile firms, House of Honey and MASHstudios. So, when the time came for her to hang her shingle, she did it with confidence knowing that she did the work and knows her craft. Every week we meet and you hear the story of another creative doing amazing work. In these conversations, we talk about the work, but most importantly, we talk about the journey. Every crea...
Imagine A World WITHOUT Frank Lloyd Wright | 291 | A Conversation That Would Thoroughly Annoy Him
October 06, 2020 15:24 - 46 minutes - 43 MBA conversation of his work and influence in the abstract would, no doubt perk up the prickly side of Frank Lloyd Wright who never seemed to pass on an opportunity to share his thoughts regardless of how they might be perceived. The cantankerous side of Frank Lloyd Wright was a gift second only to his work. It made things so much more interesting. Around the time I was writing panel concepts for the Convo By Design Programming Lounge at WestEdge in 2019, I saw a movie that posed the question,...
Lone Star House of Design | 10 | Shelly Rosenberg
October 01, 2020 19:23 - 41 minutes - 38.4 MBI’m Josh Cooperman and this is Lone Star | House of Design, produced and distributed by the team that brings you Convo By Design with another story about design and architecture from the Great State of Texas featuring Dallas based designer, Shelly Rosenberg and a chat about meaningful and universal design…Shelly Rosenberg is a kind, purposeful and caring person and these also are core values in her work. Shelly is an advocate for those that need more specialized care and attention to their su...
Saying Goodbye to a SoCal Design Luminary | 290 | Jeff Sampson
September 28, 2020 20:43 - 38 minutes - 35.3 MBJeff Sampson was the Vice President of Marketing at the Pacific Design Center, a role he held since the later part of 2013. One of Jeff’s most notable contributions to our design community was to refocus PDC efforts of the annual West Week and Fall Market events. He did this through creative programming and a non-partisan approach to media partners. If you were a strong partner, it didn’t matter how long you were around. Jeff and I met in 2014, shortly after I started Convo By Design. I appro...
The Modern Smart Home | 289 | Function vs. Fiction
September 22, 2020 16:49 - 58 minutes - 53.6 MBOur homes are getting smarter. Designers and architects are being given the tools to increase the IQ of the home by making it more functional, using smart devices to perform new functions, and with this comes confusion and challenges in making all of the individual parts work together. This conversation is the latest edition of A Moment of Zen, conversations presented by Thermasol that explore designing for wellness and tranquility.This chat features designer John McClain, technology integrat...
Art & Public Spaces | 288 | The Future and Purpose of Public Art
September 15, 2020 14:54 - 59 minutes - 54.8 MBI was invited to moderate a virtual conversation recently. It is really interesting how something like a virtual panel, which felt so foreign four months ago now seems normal. The ‘new’ normal has affected every part of our lives. One really amazing such’ new normal’ is how we engage with art. In public spaces, how our design events will emerge once permitted to resume activities, and then there is the way art has become a source of comfort for many and a source of protest for others. That se...
Art & Public Spaces – The Future and Purpose of Public Art
September 15, 2020 14:54 - 59 minutes - 54.8 MBI was invited to moderate a virtual conversation recently. It is really interesting how something like a virtual panel, which felt so foreign four months ago now seems normal. The ‘new’ normal has affected every part of our lives. One really amazing such’ new normal’ is how we engage with art. In public spaces, how our design events will emerge once permitted to resume activities, and then there is the way art has become a source of comfort for many and a source of protest for others. That se...
Ross Vincent | 287 | Attaining Balance of Sophisticated and Approachable Design
September 08, 2020 15:25 - 52 minutes - 47.8 MBInterior design is so much more than an accumulation of things arranged in a pleasing way. Interior design, done right, means understanding the needs of the client and then taking those desires, both seen and unseen, and crafting an environment that meets those needs. Ross Vincent is a rising design star that is already highly accomplished. His work is clean and elegant, modern, and comfortable. You are going to hear Ross talk about the state of design here in Southern California as well as t...
Lone Star House of Design | 9 | Sara Malek Barney of BANDD Design
September 03, 2020 14:58 - 49 minutes - 45.1 MBThis is Lone Star | House of Design, produced and distributed by the team that brings you Convo By Design with another story about design and architecture for the Great State of Texas featuring Sara Malek Barney, founder of Bandd Design.Sara is a remarkable talent who brings a number of unique elements to her incredible rise in design, that of a first career in sports and entertainment. She worked for Hollywood powerhouse talent firm CAA, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, and then came home to Austin...
Reinvention and Amazing Design | 286 | Bailey Li Interiors
September 01, 2020 16:08 - 55 minutes - 50.4 MBYou don’t need me to tell you how different this year has been. Your entire life has changed and you have looked at what you do, how you do it, and how to pivot and adjust. Alecia Bailey founder and principal designer of Bailey Li Interiors made her wholesale change a while back after a career in real estate and corporate sales. While in real estate, she began staging properties and seeing success and fell in love with interior design. Now, wanting to do something different is one thing but b...