Do you have what it takes to be successful as a business owner?
That was the main question the Northwest Entrepreneur Network, a local business support nonprofit, posed in a panel discussion called “Think Tank: Are you, or should you be, an entrepreneur?” last Tuesday night, at Schaffer Auditorium on Seattle University campus.
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Are you an entrepreneur? Should you be?
Written by October 7th, 2008 in Desk Notes and Interesting Finds.0 CommentsJust a reminder that our monthly beer-down at Stumbling Monk, a friendly neighborhood Belgian pub, is around the corner.
We will start around 6:30, drop ins are welcome: join the conversations, doodle the coasters, or sit, sip and observe!
Designers’ Korner
Monday, October 6 :: 6:30pm
Stumbling Monk
Capitol Hill
Seattle
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Sushi and Architecture: Japanese Architect Kengo Kuma to Speak at Central Library
Written by September 29th, 2008 in Interesting Finds.0 CommentsSpace.City is hosting a lecture by Kengo Kuma, an esteemed Japanese architect with an increasingly international portfolio, on Monday, October 6, at Seattle Central Library. It will start at 7PM, and the tickets are $10 at Peter Miller bookstore downtown, or $15 at the door.
It should be an interesting talk. He started out […]
Design Kompany rebrands U.K./Seattle-based mobile software developers
Written by September 17th, 2008 in Portfolio.1 Comment
Coming up with the name Matchbox was the first part of Design Kompany’s total rebrand for a mobile software development company. Matchbox’s offices are in Seattle and Brighton, U.K.
Flourish @ Capitol Hill Block Party Friday, July 25
Written by July 22nd, 2008 in Design Inspirations and News at DK.0 Commentsgraypants is hosting the next Flourish at their new space above Vermillion art gallery this Friday, July 25.
Find out more about the interactive video show a small group of us in Capitol Hill are co-producing to tie in with the Capitol Hill Block party at graypants’ website.
The show’s called “projection mayhem”.
Background
Design Kompany met graypants […]
Speaking of modern architecture:
International Herald Tribune has an article on “farms in the sky,” vertical structures that support edible stuff. Call it p-patch of the future, edible green roof or “vertical farm” (as Dr. Dickson Despommier, a professor at Columbia who is promoting the idea, calls it), having a farm right in the […]
The “Friday lunch” concept is catching on.
Schemata Workshop, an architectural cooperative, is hosting “a weekly no-host lunch” at a Capitol Hill spot.
Café Stellina, appropriately, is in the beautifully renovated, historic Piston & Ring building on a hip-and-coming 12th Ave. E in Capitol Hill. Grace Kim, of Schemata, puts it thus:
“If you are a young […]
