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in Friends, Inspiration, Interview on October 31st, 2009
Sick of that hand-me-down coffee table wilting in the corner of your living room? Dump it in your alley, and hopefully Bladon Conner will find it, bring it to his studio and give it a second chance. And by second chance I mean make it into the hipper, urban-chic version of itself it only dreamed of being back in the day…
As a corporate architect, Bladon Conner never quite felt truly grounded. He worked 70 to 80 hours a week, traveled too much and found himself spending more time on Excel and email than actually designing and drawing. Today, though, it…
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in Business, Findings, Inspiration, Marketing on October 21st, 2009
The online world is all about content. What brings people, whether consumers or business clients, to a website? The obvious answer is: new ideas and information that solve their challenges and needs. Print, TV, radio and online ads can drive traffic to a website all day long, but what good is it if they get to the site and are bored or unsatisfied with the breadth of information and leave.
Or for that matter, what if they come once and like what they see and read, and then come back a week or a month later only to see the same…
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charles
in Friends on September 28th, 2009
If there’s one thing that makes Chicago a wonderful place to live in and move through, it is its dedication to public art. (Of course, the city has a darker tradition of censoring public art, as well) Public art makes us feel like a community. It showers us with messages of belonging, history and purpose. It inspires us to think big and colorful. It transforms sprawl into tapestries of the human experience. It tells a story.
This is why we appreciate the Chicago Public Art Group, a non-profit organization that has for over 2 decades assisted in the creation of hundreds…
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charles
in Interview on July 31st, 2009
Continuing our series of interviews with notable Chicago artists, designers and other innovators, we sat down with BC, a celebrated photographer here in Chicago who primarily shoots the city and its people.
July 20, 2009
Chicago: A Daily Photo Blog
When did you first pick up a camera and what did you want to do with it?
The first camera I ever used was a Kodak Instamatic 110. It belonged to my brother. I loved that little camera. I also took a photography class in high school using a camera I borrowed from a friend. It was a Canon SLR. It was many many…
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