Grid Flavor: Mrs. Yoder’s Donut Ice Cream
Local, homemade ice cream is a mandatory part of summer in RVA. Especially when we have Richmonders like Beverly Mazursky scooping out new flavors on a regular basis. When Greater Richmond Grid set out earlier this year to make a few tasty treats of our own, Mazursky, owner of Bev’s Homemade Ice Cream, was the […]
Reclaiming Workmanship
Ask Sam Sikes about the front door to the showroom at Wellborn + Wright, and he will tell you exactly where each board came from – centuries-old barns. His general manager, Hunter Webb, can remember milling the rough boards out of the original reclaimed timbers, white oak inflected with nail holes and small networks of […]
Carving Out a Place for Lasers
On the corner of North Adams Street and Brook Road, Jason Lefton is making a living on having fun. At his company Big Secret – a laser engraving, cutting and marking shop – Lefton uses fun as a way to create quality products and build connections with the Greater Richmond community. Big Secret, now in […]
Makerset Design Keeps it Local
In the corner of a wood working shop on the North Side, three guys are cutting shapes out of metal, polishing them, and shipping their shiny product around the country. Humming with machinery and echoing with clanging tools, this small shop is where 21st century manufacturing is alive and well. This is Makerset Design Co., […]
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 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 TEDxRVA
By Suzanne Hall Riveting remarks by remarkable people. That’s what you can expect from Richmond’s inaugural TEDxRVA, an independently organized TEDx event on March 22. In the spirit of TED’s motto “ideas worth spreading,” TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx […]
A Passion For Great Design: The Mobelux Story
I wanted to build interfaces for the iPhone as soon as I’d tapped the glass on the original model. I wasn’t alone. Plenty of other interface designers saw the future in multitouch and started mocking up apps. I’d recently signed up for Tumblr and wanted to post from my iPhone so my first iOS design was meticulous views of what that app might look like. Unfortunately, Apple wasn’t allowing third party development on iPhone OS at that time so my interface was relegated to nothing more than a mobile design exercise.
KimKim Korean Hot Sauce
“We’re almost out of KimKim.” Judging from the early performance of this new hot sauce, it’s not hard to imagine a day when these words might prompt grocery store runs in households across the country. In the mere six months since its first bottle came off the assembly line, KimKim Korean Hot Sauce has blazed […]