Club + Venue Design Expo is the only exhibition and conference for professionals concerned with the interior design, technology, installation and services of mid-sized entertainment venues up to 7,000 capacity. Innovation and customer experience are key. Club + Venue Design Expo provides a unique forum for cutting-edge venue technology, pro audio,...
Continue ReadingCrobar is an awarding winning and internationally renowned nightlife brand owned by partners, and founders, Ken Smith and Callin Fortis. Originally friendly competitors in Chicago, they joined forces in 1989 to collaborate on more than a dozen successful restaurants, lounges and nightclubs in Chicago, Miami, and New York City. It...
Continue Readingwant to build a nightclub in Miami, bigtime design can build you an award winning nightclub...
Continue ReadingIf you believe in fate and or the notion that things don't stay bad forever, (thou they sometimes seem to) you should subscribe to Seth Godin's blog. Today's blog is a simple reminder of how not to let the bus pass you by whilst you stand so patiently at the...
Continue ReadingMeet Mario Alfonso De Armas. Understated. Humble. Brilliant. I met Mario some time ago. I'm sort of surprised I had not met him before as the Crobar Experience launched a host of creative careers. Initially he came to the studio as a "photographer" to shoot a campaign for EXIT 66...
Continue ReadingThank you for all the love and support and prayers. I am home. I am feeling better. I will recover fully. Funny how much you take things for granted until they have almost faded and disappeared. I am grateful for all that have. Especially...
Continue ReadingI am Mister P. Some know me as the mayor of Pug Town. I am sick. I am not ready to die. I have been through two major surgeries in the past 5 days. My stomach has been cut open twice, my intestines have been...
Continue ReadingMy mom told me that it was not polite to stare. In some circles this may be true, in the design circle it could not be more false. Who couldn't stare at this stair? From director Jacques Tati the film Mon Oncle is a designers dream to...
Continue ReadingMy name is not Imago Montoya, thou if "you killed my father you should be prepared to die." The line from the film Princess Bride is one that will never ever leave pop culture and has left a lasting and quotable meaning for so many. Not unlike...
Continue ReadingDidn't we just talk about this on our good ole U.S. of A beer soaked soil? For U.S. economists this is a downturn. For the UK, they call it a tragedy. This could be the greatest tragedy of the recession for the U.K.: Humble British pubs --...
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