The “Great Idea”

History is full of great ideas. You know, great ideas like controlling fire. Barbecue and a good beach campfire are essentials to good living from our perspective, so thanks to whomever grilled that first steak on an open flame. A bunch of other great ideas come to...

Why Design Matters

One of my favorite sayings I learned in college at Old Dominion University was, “Good design is invisible.” This puzzled me at first. So I thought about it. Then it resonated with me. It’s why design is so important to any business. It goes to the very heart of why...

Coming Home

So many of the friends I grew up with in my hometown of Gloucester, Virginia, couldn’t wait to get out of town when they graduated from high school. They wanted to leave for the big city, whether that was Virginia Beach, or Richmond, or DC, or Nashville, or New York...