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Conference Home Make a Scene! A pro-active community can formulate a vision of their own future and Make a Scene! Designers are everywhere, but design culture is not. Many professionals and academic programs are challenged by their geographic locations. As designers, artists, educators, entrepreneurs, and others embrace their locale, they help their community to progress,…
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And in boomtowns like Phoenix and Tampa, developers with an eye more to profit than market realities far surpassed any realistic demand for housing. The result? Rampant foreclosures, thousands of abandoned homes and even streets, and acres of excavated land awaiting stalled-out projects that won’t get built. How do we design and build to accommodate…
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Kenny Howard the master painter and striper also known as Von Dutch
Before the cheesy namesake clothing and accessories line that threatens to destroy his cred forever, there was the self-invented and slightly mad genius Kenny Howard– better known as Von Dutch. He was a real Renaissance man– legendary custom painter, artist, motorcycle mechanic, and a skilled metal worker who hand-crafted his own knives and guns. He…