Designbox in the NY Times (again :-)

In the NY Times Travel Section 3/6/14, with an article titled 36 Hours in Raleigh, NC, some favorite hot spots of Raleigh are featured! Designbox is honored to be among them. YAY for our city! The downtown area known as the Warehouse District, once just a sector of dilapidated redbrick buildings, now houses art studios and galleries. Start an exploration …

March 12, 2014: Sharing the open source movement, with speaker Jason Hibbets

Our March 2014 speaker is open source advocate Jason Hibbets. Professionally, Jason runs OpenSource.com, a Red Hat community service: “Opensource.com is an online publication focused on how open source is applied to different areas including business, education, government, health, law and other disciplines of life. “Our goal is to further the open source way by sharing the open source movement. Our community of readers is made up …

February 12, 2014: Building the Chasen Residence in Raleigh, with speaker Adam Chasen

Our February 2014 speaker is Adam Chasen. He and his fiancee Auditi Hussain built a cost-effective, eco-friendly house on E. Hargett Street in downtown Raleigh. Adam has stories about the environment, design, building, resourcefulness, cutting costs without cutting quality, and urban chickens. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-cm3mipCdw http://www.insitustudio.us/827-east-hargett/ http://intentionallysmall.com/tag/chasen-residence-in-situ-studio/ eventbrite registration (free to public, limited to 20 people) Designbox Lunch Series organized by Designbox collaborator, Karl Sakas of Agency …

January 8 2014: The Power of Public Creativity, with speaker Sarah Powers

Sarah Powers, the director of Visual Art Exchange (VAE) and SPARKcon, will be speaking today about how VAE puts on an undefined creative festival, SPARKcon, now in it’s 8th year. That “undefinition” enables true creativity to blossom, creating a framework wherein people can experiment with how to engage with the public and how to showcase work and ideas. Sarah is a fine artist …

December 11 2013: Connecting Community with Contemporary Art, with speaker Gab Smith

Gab Smith, Executive Director of CAM Raleigh will be joining us to speak about the new museum, its relationship to downtown Raleigh and the Warehouse District and the creative community that is blossoming from it. eventbrite registration (free to public, limited to 20 people) Designbox Lunch Series organized by Designbox collaborator, Karl Sakas of Agency Firebox.

Brand Fandango XII

BRAND FANDANGO is in it’s 12th year! Do all of your seasonal shopping right in your own backyard! Come and see the best most diverse collection of the areas artists, crafters & designers all in one shop. In addition to our many local brands we carry year round, Brand Fandango XII includes: Treelogic Ever So Lovely Cassie Ott Sugar Scrubs …

November 6 2013: Creative Marketing for the Dead, with speaker Robin Simonton

Robin Simonton has been the Executive Director of Historic Oakwood Cemetery since November of 2011. Robin holds a BA in US History from the University of Hawaii and an MA in Historical Administration from Eastern Illinois University. Previously, she was the Program and Volunteer Services Executive at Girl Scouts — North Carolina Coastal Pines. Find out all about the history of Oakwood Cemetery, …

Sea by the Lighthouse by Paul Friedrich

Pop-icon Paul Friedrich has taken an American classic, the Seaside Lighthouse paintings, as seen in every coastal motel and beach house and made them his own in this new series of paintings, “Sea by the Lighthouse.”

12th Annual Brand Fandango: Call for Local Brands!

Every December Designbox expands the shop for the holiday and gift giving season into what we call BRAND FANDANGO! This will be our 12th year and we are excited to bring in some special & new vendors into the shop for the month! What are we looking for? • local brands, products and items that would make great holiday gifts …