Category Archive: design

B+D7: Burt Pinnock

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Baskervill’s Burt Pinnock designs from memory. He works somewhere in the tissue between striving for a more inclusive tomorrow and remembering locally difficult yesterdays. Community-minded and a collaborative expert, he excels with various project types including… Continue reading

B+D7: Heath Matysek-Snyder

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Heath Matysek-Snyder, returned to his Ram roots and currently creating and inspiring at VCU’s Department of Craft/Material Studies, is a wood traveler. That’s right – Heath’s used the pulpy medium during internships, explorations, and endeavors in craft… Continue reading

B+D7: Homegrown

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Join us for an evening of Homegrown design, art, and craft. Thanks to our friends at Isley Brewing in Scott’s Addition for sharing their space and homegrown offerings.  Keep an eye on Facebook,… Continue reading

B+D6 Recap: Briget Ganske

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Briget Ganske was kind enough to share her entire presentation (including narration!) for all to enjoy.  It is 10 minutes of brilliant storytelling and visual poetry.  So whether you missed B+D6: Tall Tales,… Continue reading

B+D6; Amy Black

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If winning Style Weekly’s “Best Tattoo Artist” Reader’s Poll in 2011, 2012, and 2013, One of Richmond Magazine’s Best Tattoo Parlors 2011, RVA Mag’s “Best Local Tattoo Artist” in their 2012 Reader’s Poll, and… Continue reading

B+D6: Kelly O’Keefe

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Many B+D presenters exist and grow solely based on the quality of their crafted work. What happens when quality alone isn’t broadcasting the message loudly enough?  Enter the world of Kelly O’Keefe. Kelly… Continue reading

B+D6: Visual Arts Center of Richmond

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The Visual Arts Center of Richmond has been fostering creativity and community engagement for 50 years.  That’s a long time, people.  Take a stroll through their facility in The Fan and you’ll meet… Continue reading

B+D6: 3 Brothers Brewing

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  Yes, they are brothers over at 3 Brothers Brewing. Adam, Jason, and Tyler. Feast your design loving digits on those tap handles! If they take that much care in a lever, imagine… Continue reading

B+D 6: Kelly O’Keefe

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  What can you say about a Richmond-er who helped found the VCU Brand Center, is cited by Bill Gates, and rubs shoulders with these guys? Not as much as Kelly O’Keefe can… Continue reading

B+D6: Tall Tales

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Join us for an evening of storytelling and embellishment.  Our friends at the Visual Arts Center open their art-filled home and the good folks from Three Brothers Brewing pour us a few.

B+D 5: Hammer & Pencil

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You’re the only one not here. Join us, you deserve it…  

B+D 5: Alloy’s Dan Zimmerman!

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  The good: We get Dan Zimmerman tonight of Charlottesville design build firm Alloy Workshop! Woohooo!  He’s ripe for this discussion – check out Alloy’s website! The bad: We don’t get Brian Barker.… Continue reading

B+D 5: 510_

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Heather Grutzius and John White’s 510_ visions include not just the process of how they make, but how that creative process looks, how it feels to manipulate the tools of their trade. They… Continue reading

B+D5: Brian Barker

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Brian Barker’s creative talents outsize the theatah. He’s talented in advertising, creative identity, photography, and he apparently knows about slime. Find out more tomorrow at Beer+Design 5: Hammer & Pencil.  5:30pm, September 18th at… Continue reading

B+D5: 510_

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  What are they doing in there? Collaborating with former B+D presenters Tektonics Design Group and fellow B+D5 presenters Keith and Marie Zawistowski and the VT design/build LAB team. Come here more from… Continue reading

B+D5: Balliceaux

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photo by RVA news Balliceaux owners Steve and Lanie Gratz reworked a popular Fan watering hole into a place you’d be proud to take your design-minded out-of-towners. Big sliding door, check. Concrete niches for… Continue reading

B+D5: Brian Barker

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    Brian Barker‘s design realm is a fleeting moment – events, television backdrops, theatrical shows. How does these relatively temporary conditions influence design, where an idea, theme, or emotion must be expressed quickly… Continue reading

B+D5: 510 Spaces

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Heather Grutzius and John White’s studio, 510 Spaces, excel in balancing a mixture of scales within their work. They know when to wear their black architect duds, their canvas work garb, and when… Continue reading