Making Monsters
By Emily Winters Phil Barbato makes stuff – monsters, mostly. He has had a creative streak ever since he was a child, using whatever instrument he could to make a mark on something. His high school teachers and parents gave him the encouragement he needed to pursue art at Virginia Commonwealth University in mid-1990s. […]
Making Spaces and Furniture
by Jim Johns With at least one foot in the frequently separate worlds of designing, building and making, 510 Architects and 510 Builders fill in the gaps between the three with a passion to create. From the shop in Scott’s Addition, they are turning out chairs destined for a home in South Beach Miami. […]
Making Stones, and Groundbreaking innovation
By Jeff Kelley Central dispatch needed a better way to control the hundreds of dump trucks hauling Luck Stone rocks to customers throughout Virginia. So the proposal from an engineer within the company came forward as this: Stick iPads in every subcontractor’s truck, link each tablet into GIS technology already in place, then use it […]
Making a Place for Artifacts
By Ashby Day What exactly is an artifact? Merriam-Webster offers simply, “an object made by a human being.” But that’s only half the appeal behind shopping at Carytown’s Modern Artifacts. Owners Bill and Sharon Montgomery have long shared a passion for curation and a contemporary aesthetic, and it’s their mutual urbane taste that comprises […]
Making Richmond First
Here’s a pop quiz for you. What metropolitan area has the honors of starting the first hospital, chartering the first university, and creating the first canned beer in America? Here’s a hint: It’s the same region that saw the Virginia Commonwealth University Rams basketball team make an improbable run in the 2011 NCAA men’s basketball […]
Making an Innovative Region
By Taylor Beck Hey, you. Want $10,000 cash and free office space in Greater Richmond for half a year? Are you a Richmond-based entrepreneur with a creative startup idea, high on imagination but low on funds? Well then, the i.e.* Startup Competition may be right for you. The i.e.* (short for “ideas evolving”) initiative was […]
Little Quirks
Richmond is a city that continues to change over time. Even though there is new being built around the old, the vintage atmosphere of the city creates a nostalgic feel for the people living in it. I believe that part of this nostalgia is in the signs displayed throughout time. Creating a storyboard for the […]
Ledbury: Making A Shop for Sharp Shirts
By Paul Karns There are three things to know right off the bat about the founders of Ledbury — Paul Trible and Paul Wilson. They know clothes, they know business, and their staff refers to them as The Pauls. It might seem counter-intuitive to come out of business school — Oxford, no less — […]
Hardywood and James River Association Make Rain Barrels
By Stephen Robertson In the spring of 2012, Patrick Murtaugh and Eric McKay, founders of Richmond’s own Hardywood Park Craft Brewery, struck out on the James River with Jamie Brunkow and Ryan Corrigan of the James River Association (JRA). They toured the JRA’s James River Ecology School and Presquile Island National Wildlife Refuge, just […]
Making Things Happen
By R. Anthony Harris I have always admired someone that backs his or her rhetoric with action. Actually, the less you talk, the better. Let your work speak for you and grab my attention. Enter Shane Pomajambo, the owner of Art Whino Gallery in D.C. He talks a giant game and to his credit, […]