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DBVW Architects Welcomes Alexander Silva, Marketing and Communications Manager

People on the Move 12/21/2022

Alexander Silva joins DBVW Architects as the marketing and communications manager, where he works closely with the principals on proposal development, strategic planning, and...

DBVW Architects Welcomes Benno Belhumeur, Project Manager

People on the Move 12/21/2022

DBVW Architects is happy to announce Benno Belhumeur’s return to DBVW as a Project Manager, where he brings decades of architectural and construction management...

COLLABORATIVE EFFORT: From left, DESIGNxRI Executive Director Ellie Brown, Program and Events Manager Davin Samuels and marketing associate Rue Sakayama at the nonprofit’s Providence office.  PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

DESIGNxRI builds an industry by design

Business Services 09/30/2022

PBN Innovative Companies 2022 NONPROFIT: DESIGNxRI DESIGN AND INNOVATION go hand in hand at DESIGNxRI. The Providence-based nonprofit creates economic development opportunities for Rhode Island designers,...

EASY TO UNDERSTAND: Amy Qu, a recent Rhode Island School of Design graduate, presents her redesign of the fentanyl test strips as part of the Design Beyond Crisis studio course in May. The redesign is intended to make the strips easier to use for people without training.  COURTESY RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN

Designers try to devise better safe-injection sites

Education 08/05/2022

In Providence and Pawtucket, harm-reduction organization Project Weber/RENEW regularly hands out test strips that can detect whether a drug sample contains fentanyl, a highly...

8 design businesses receive seed funding via DESIGNxRI’s Design Catalyst program

Uncategorized 07/12/2022

PROVIDENCE – Nonprofit design industry advocate DESIGNxRI awarded eight city-based design businesses up to $17,500 each Monday in becoming the latest graduates of the...

ELLIE BROWN has been named DESIGNxRI's new executive director. / COURTESY DESIGNxRI

DESIGNxRI names Brown new executive director

Art & Culture 07/07/2022

PROVIDENCE – A design educator, artist and nonprofit development professional with experience on both coasts will now take charge of DESIGNxRI. The nonprofit that supports...

PASSIONATE PURSUIT: Kris Bradner, principal at Traverse Landscape Architects LLC in Providence, was inspired by one of her high school teachers to pursue a career in landscape design. / PBN FILE PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Traverse Landscape’s Bradner established roots in architecture early

Business Women 05/27/2022

Business Women Awards 2022 Achievement Honoree Kris Bradner, Traverse Landscape Architects LLC AMONG THE TYPICAL college prep courses offered at Kris Bradner’s high school, something different...

DESIGNING WOMEN: Phyllis Cannava, right, president of Office Direct Cannava Design Ltd., a commercial furniture dealership in Warwick, looks over samples and blueprints with senior designer Meghan Robinson, left, and designer Meghan Ryan. / PBN FILE PHOTO/ELIZABETH GRAHAM

Office design was Cannava’s direct road toward success

Business Women 05/27/2022

Business Women Awards 2022 Achievement Honoree Phyllis Cannava, Office Direct Cannava Design Ltd. PHYLLIS CANNAVA WILL BE the first to tell you that she’s not...