Bank note designer Louis daubed blocks of colour on his easel without anything close to a likeness appearing for some time, while 17-year-old student Kemi took to her canvas with alarming confidence to quickly produce the faces of Juliet Stevenson and her young son.
"Our timelines and those of car designers are not so different," she said, noting designers in each discipline took three or four years from sketch to finished product.
If ever fashion needs to crank up the laugh track, it can always consult the program notes designers concoct to explain their inspirations.
As recently as January, a fixture of the downtown skyline — the William Penn Hotel, built in 1925 by the noted designer Joseph Finger — disappeared virtually overnight.
Except for the Lake Nona Golf and Country Club, a gated community with a golf course by the noted designer Tom Fazio, most of the land sat empty, dotted with a smattering of cows left there for tax reasons (agricultural land in Florida is taxed minimally).
Typekit, the project of noted designer Jeffrey Veen and Small Batch, launched today.
We like, as noted designer and author Eric Zimmerman advocates, to think of the 21st century as the "ludic" century.
Hotelier Brad Korzen and noted designer Kelly Wearstler have entered into an agreement to sell their longtime estate, which was once owned by movie producer Albert Broccoli, to designer and filmmaker Tom Ford.
He worked as a draftsman for the architectural firm of Emery Roth and Sons, the city's largest architectural firm and a noted designer of office buildings, for a year.
(Note to designers: Raise all the buttons more and make them different sizes, shapes and colors to help drivers).
