From Ice-Cream Shops to Motels, Why Are Design Agencies Launching Bricks-and-Mortar Businesses?
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From Ice-Cream Shops to Motels, Why Are Design Agencies Launching Bricks-and-Mortar Businesses?
“People are reaching for work with a little dirt under its nails. Designers are rediscovering soul,” Spencer continues. “You can feel it — this hunger to make things that breathe, that feel lived in. This isn't about rejecting digital — it's about bringing humanity back into it.”
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Globally-networked localism
• Design services will relocalize like farmers markets.
• Communities will commission work face-to-face. “I’ll come to your space”, not “jump on a Zoom”.
• Taste will be curated by the culture embedded in the city we work in.
• Our work isn’t slop on socials—design work should happen where people live and meet.
• We’re... See more
• Design services will relocalize like farmers markets.
• Communities will commission work face-to-face. “I’ll come to your space”, not “jump on a Zoom”.
• Taste will be curated by the culture embedded in the city we work in.
• Our work isn’t slop on socials—design work should happen where people live and meet.
• We’re... See more
EJJI is an ethos-driven design practice
If the early modernists sold method and mastery, this next wave began inserting personal stakes more clearly; client briefs still set the parameters, but designers were claiming more space within them.