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J. Shonk…a photographer inspired.
by dbrds
8:20pm, January 22nd, 2013. Its a random Tuesday night & I have just finished a great dinner with Lisa (the wifey) & Teddy (the older brother that adopted me 8 years ago), & with a glass of Chilean white wine in hand & I am feeling super inspired to get into some work. Set up on the couch with Sportscenter on the TV, I am locked into my zone about to get into it & out of nowhere I receive […]
Categories: photography • Tags: DBRDS, Google, San Diego, San Diego Architectural Foundation, Sportscenter, Texaco, Tuesday, United States
Orchids & Onions, it’s a wrap…
by dbrds
While this blog may a little late following the successful 2012 Orchids & Onions Award’s Ceremony & Silent Auction almost a month ago, it’s taken me some time to carefully consider how to best articulate my appreciation & put together an all positive ‘thank you’ to the tremendous team of volunteer’s who made it all possible. This is experience for me, as crazy at it was throughout the preparations, was phenomenal on many levels, & I don’t take lightly how […]
Categories: design, photography • Tags: Board of Directors, California, Catherine Herbst, Chris Puzio, Darren Bradley, DBRDS, Greg Strangman, Kinsee Morlan, Marcie Harris, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Nathan Lee Colkitt, ORCHID & ONION, PREZI, Robin Wilson Carrier, San Diego, San Diego Architectural Foundation, SDAF
Orchids, Onions & Opportunities
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Categories: design, media • Tags: DBRDS, Design, Leslee Schaffer, Onions, Opportunities, Orchids, San Diego, San Diego Architectural Foundation
friday afternoons; they way they should be…at RAGLAN
by dbrds
Synopsis of an awesome Friday afternoon: With an invitation from Michael Soriano to check out his latest San Diego masterpiece (i’ll come back to this), Ivan & I headed over to Ocean Beach for a lunchtime pint. Meeting Michael & his co-hort, Detroit import, radical thinker, passionate speaker James Denton (who teamed with Michael on RAGLAN PUBLIC HOUSE) & Jim Gabriel (Principal Architect of Architects Hanna Gabriel Wells), what turned out to be a simple ‘pint over lunch’ turned into […]
Categories: design, photography • Tags: DBRDS, Hanna Gabriel Wells, Leslee Schaffer, McCullough Landscape Architecture, Michael Soriano, MLASD, Nathan Colkitt, New Zealand, PUBLIC Architecture, Raglan Public House, San Diego, San Diego Architectural Foundation
DBRDS news
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We are happy to announce that as of last week DBRDS Co-Founder Pauly De Bartolo has been officially named to the San Diego Architectural Foundation’s 2012 Board of Directors. After working endless hours & making great friendships in last year’s Orchids & Onions Program, Pauly is excited to get more involved in this community joining the experienced team from SDAF. Other new members include Ivana Vinski from RKTEQU Architects, Jenny Duck from RJC Architects & Kelly Dixon from MAKE Fabrication […]
Categories: construction, design • Tags: Board of Directors, David McCullough, Ivana Vinski, Jenny Duck, Kelly Dixon, Leslee Schaffer, Residential Remodel, San Diego Architectural Foundation, South Park, Suzanne Clemmer
O&O, The Architect’s Newspaper & the project formerly known as STELLA
by dbrds
The past few weeks have pretty exciting for the DBRDS team & as its been a while since we updated our blog, we wanted to share a bunch of things we have been working on: ORCHIDS & ONIONS After months of planning & committee meetings, last week saw the San Diego Architectural Foundations ‘Orchids & Onions’ award night be an amazing success. Collaborating with SDAF Exec. Director Leslee Schafer, Co-Chairs Suzanne Clemmer & Anney Rosenthal-Hall & along side fellow Jury […]
Categories: design, media, photography • Tags: Architect, Architect's Newspaper, California, Constellation Property Group, Dan Byrd, DBRDS, FoundationForForm, Hanna Gabriel Wells Architects, Michael Soriano, Orchids & Onions, Robert Watson, San Diego, San Diego Architectural Foundation, Solage, Stella
DBRDS in San Diego’s CITYBEAT Magazine
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Earlier this week, we were connected by our great friend Leslee Schaffer, Executive Director of the San Diego Architectural Foundation (who also just happens to be a rockstar herself!) with Kinsee Morlan, a writer for the San Diego CITYBEAT magazine. Kinslee was looking to write a piece on what music local designers are listening to at the moment. Responding to the call, we were featured in the article which came out yesterday online. Other’s who were featured include local designers […]
Categories: media, music • Tags: Christopher Bittner, Craig Abenilla, Jonathon Stevens, Kinsee Morlan, Leslee Schaffer, Michael Soriano, Miki Iwasaki, Rene Peralta, San Diego, San Diego Architectural Foundation, San Diego CityBeat