A little press from Design*Sponge

CITY, GUIDES
July 14th, 2009
richmond, virginia guide!
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Design Sponge is a really sharp blog; somehow they cover a myriad of design topics everyone can marvel at and use. Their attentive crew recently featured a city guide of Richmond and picked up a few of our favorite destinations. Well, our favorite part was the mention of Fraser Design and our work at the Charles Luck Stone Center, but they also highlighted some gems we have in this town.

Just a few (go to their blog for the exhaustive list)

Philip Johnson's WRVA building is a modern icon in historic Church Hill  
SB Cox is the salvage yard of all salvage yards
The National- bringing entertainment back to the city
Metro modern, Ecologic and Chop Suey Books for some speciality shopping
Black Sheep, Millies, Comfort and Kuba Kuba, some of our favorite restaurants

Reading through, I realize we have great resources that serve diverse interests and endeavors. We feel fortunate to contribute to that inventory. 

Event: Visual Strategy #2: A Creative Workshop



Building on the success of our initial workshop, we held our second session in collaboration with Floricane and Ansel Olson. Working with a group of key influencers from the city, we presented the same premis- think differently and we offered a few tools to facilitate that work. Over a few hours we engaged the group with these tools to expand on the subject of Richmond’s assets.
As always, we were intrigued by the results. Pushing through the convenient and facile solutions, the group expanded to some visionary territory. 

The notion of Richmond as an incubator and generator of business and creativity as well as a place that reveres and creates history are not necessarily new. The narrative we found the around the character of the environment was an exciting revelation- the physical composition of the city was revealed in a dynamic way.

We will continue our investigation and share the work. The results- well, we don’t know yet. What we do see is inspiration and that is a great path to follow.