The Stairwell

Seeing The Future Through Design

Jacque Fresco building designI'm amazed at the creativity, resourcefulness and optimism of futurist Jacque Fresco. His work as an inventor is now a movie, Future by Design, which has a great trailer and related info.

I especially like the similarities between web usability and his "dynamic equilibrium" approach to design - in that both require much common sense during the creative process.

Billups Design to work with HighSchoolSports.net

HighSchoolSports.net is the country's leading high school sports and statistics site. BD will be undertaking some redesign initiatives in several areas, including home page, promotional ads and banners and shopping cart. Thanks to everyone at HighSchoolSports.net for their confidence in our growing firm. More details to come...

New art is about new tools.

This is an idea that is just fun enough to make it into The Stairwell for our readers - a camera made with Legos.

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Hyatt.com engages Billups Design for microsite


We're happy that hyatt.com has chosen us to help them implement a microsite for one of their valued partners, Blue Duck Taverns. We look forward to working with the Hyatt team on this project. Thanks to everyone involved. Now let's get to work!

BD takes flight or How we've moved into our new digs!

A change of scenery is sure to help the creative juices flow, they say. And we believe it, because we've just completed our (major) move to Lincoln Square in downtown Chicago and boy are we feeling inspired.

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Mark Shale launches Fall site.


Congratulations to Mark Shale on its launch of the new Fall Collection web site. Thanks to Steve, Josh, Ted, Russell, Erin, Sid, Atiq, Rick and everyone else (too many to name) who contributed to another monster project completion.

Why not shop at markshale.com while you're surfing?