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Commercial
Designing for commercial spaces is an exercise in balance: often there are tight budgets and timelines, but if you don’t get it right while staying true to your brand, you risk having uninspired clients who don’t come back in again, or employees who’d rather work elsewhere. We love designing inspired spaces, and here you’ll find all things commercial (projects, blog posts, recognition, and more) at Board & Vellum.
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Commercial
Designing Retail Spaces You Want to Linger In
Designing small-to-medium-size retail projects brings unique and exciting challenges, and great small retail brings so much to the life of a community. So, what does it take to create a space where customers slow their pace and linger? Retail spaces designed for the human scale, that promote curiosity and exploration.
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Commercial
Experiencing Acoustics
Often overlooked, acoustics play an incredible role in your experience of a space, and the memories you’ll have of it. So, let's geek out and discuss what exactly you need to consider when designing for acoustics, how it all works, and why it matters.
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Commercial, Other Tangents
Love and Capitol Hill’s 15th Ave. District
Board & Vellum loves 15th Avenue on Capitol Hill – it's our home! Here, Sara gets into the details of what really makes it great for her.
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Commercial
Ada’s: A Burst Of Light and a Custom Mobile
Ada’s Technical Books & Café is a project that will always be near and dear to us. And, one of our favorite details (both to design and to make) is the custom mobile of book pages. This is the story of how it came to be.
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How Do We Design Office Spaces?
While designing commercial office spaces is a different animal from designing single-family homes, there are some key things that carry through, and those are some of the exact things that make for some of the best office spaces.
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Windows for Ada’s
We are big advocates for parcelling out your budget so that you put your money where it really matters, and not towards things that just won't have much of an impact on the design. In the case of Ada's Technical Books & Café, the street-level windows are really important. Here's why, and how we designed them.
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