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If You’re Not Having Fun, then You’re Doing Something Wrong

March 12, 2018 by Bob Borson Leave a Comment

If You’re Not Having Fun, then You’re Doing Something Wrong

"If you go on vacation to Ireland and don't enjoy yourself, then that's your fault."This is what a man told me as I sat in the British Airways lounge in Heathrow airport while I was waiting with for … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog, Design, Do you want to be an Architect?, Graphics, Holidays, Life in General, My Work Tagged With: a day in the life, architects office, architectural sketching, details, traveling

Website for an Architect

February 12, 2018 by Bob Borson Leave a Comment

Website for an Architect

I think there is a not-so-well-hidden secret out there that the websites for architects are almost all unilaterally terrible. They are cumbersome and hard to navigate - trying to find information on … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog, Graphics, Office Tagged With: a day in the life, architects office, great to work with architects, photography, Writing a blog

Architectural Redlines During Design

January 29, 2018 by Bob Borson 38 Comments

Architectural Redlines During Design

Nothing makes people lose their minds faster than whenever I post a sketch ... you would think that contained somewhere within this sketch is the nuclear launch codes and because of my frivolous lack … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architectural Graphics - The Series, Architectural Sketches - The Series, Career, Graphics, Observations Tagged With: a day in the life, architects office, architectural sketching, being a part of the design process, conversations

Metal Shelf of Awesomeness

January 8, 2018 by Bob Borson 16 Comments

Metal Shelf of Awesomeness

It all started with a party - getting ready for one to be exact. It is not lost on me that it always seems to take having people over before you decide to fix things up. Nonetheless, we had an open … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Construction, Design, Graphics, My Work, Office Tagged With: Architects, architects office, architectural sketching, Construction Process, details

Models and Party Planning

September 6, 2017 by Bob Borson 16 Comments

Models and Party Planning

In the very near future, we are going to throw a party at my office to recognize and celebrate a myriad of milestones, achievements, and honors. It's been just over four years since we relocated to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Life in General, Office Tagged With: architects office, models, office

Pick Your Fights

August 8, 2017 by Bob Borson 23 Comments

Pick Your Fights

There are times when I really hate passionately dislike some of the contractors I work with. Luckily it doesn't happen too often - I can only think of a handful of those moments over the past 25 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Career, Life in General, Observations Tagged With: a day in the life, architects office, contractors, Leni

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