Columbia Neon Sign exhibit at CSCC will take visitors down memory lane Oct 19, 2009
Exhibit-goers are invited to sit on Mr. Lewis stool at his drafting table and try their hand at sign design, Kuykendall said. The desk has been at Columbia Neon for 49 years, said Stofel. (Columbia Daily Herald, TN)
West Berkeley: Fourth Street Oct 5, 2009
Lived-in studio space with drafting tables, fabric swatches everywhere, two sewing machines; a small, well-stocked retail space takes up the front of the workroom. The goods: Ruffled wool tartan and fleece skirts, jackets and coats; bamboo yoga clothes, bias-cut dresses with asymmetrical hemlines, long evening coats, boleros, wraps and scarves, and baby and children's clothing ($95-$600). (San Francisco Chronicle)
Bits, Sven Birkerts, Agni Sep 26, 2009
There was an afternoon maybe fifty years back, me alone doing irresistible demolition, working loose the parts, the little screws and cylinders and laying the whole thing out for study on his drafting table. And there was the scene later, when my father came home from the office. (Harper's Magazine)
Politics, seduction in 'Leon Morin, Priest' Sep 11, 2009
They look as much like the rulers on a drafting table as they do a cross. Melville s worldview was even more curdled in Army of Shadows, about the men and women of the French Resistance. (Boston Globe)
In ‘Wrestling With Moses,’ taking on Goliath in Gotham Aug 31, 2009
Jacobs toppled the idea that planners sitting at a drafting table knew what was best for cities. In her struggles against Moses, dramatically described in Flint s winning account, Jacobs showed that communities could come together to stop destructive development in its tracks. (Boston Globe)
Torah scroll goes high-tech Aug 9, 2009
"Bloomenstiel wrote on his blog that the project was 2 percent finished two weeks ago.His days are ritualistic each morning he takes a cleaning bath called a "mikvah" and tedious. Hours pass in silence, with Bloomenstiel bent over a drafting table, peering through Coke-bottle glasses."This has always happened in cluttered little offices with men hunched 00004000 over a desk with parchment and a quill," Bloomenstiel said. "I'm doing the same thing, except I have a parchment, quill, a webcam,... (Honolulu Advertiser)
Clippers remain intent on keeping No. 1 draft pick Jun 23, 2009
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Obama to Preach Health Reform to AMA Jun 20, 2009
This time, the doctors group considers health-care reform nearly inevitable, and they want a seat at the drafting table. So they are choosing their words carefully. (ABC News)
Clippers win lottery, will have top pick in draft May 20, 2009
" The top three teams all moved up, making the 25th lottery as unpredictable as most of its predecessors. Not since 2004, when Orlando took Dwight Howard, had the team with the best chance to win ended up with the No. 1 pick. The draft is June 25. Minnesota has the sixth pick followed by Golden State, New York, Toronto, Milwaukee, New Jersey, Charlotte, Indiana and Phoenix. The Clippers also picked first in 1988, drafting Danny Manning. This was their 20th appearance in the draft lottery, which... (Yahoo News)
A new web series looks back May 9, 2009
His name was Brian Gable and he had the largest space in the newsroom to accommodate his drafting table and a pointy collection of implements of wit, satire, simile. If you were a public figure drifting from the public interest, Brian would almost certainly nail your head to the coffee table. (Globe and Mail)
Canada's comic-book hero May 9, 2009
" Drawn & Quarterly is putting Seth on the road in support of George Sprott. He's at the Toronto Comic Arts Festival this weekend, then off to New York, Philadelphia, Chicago and other U.S. cities a few weeks later. Of course, as "a very routine-oriented guy" the kind of guy who, with fedora on head, is at his drafting table in his basement studio each day at 9 a.m., works until 4 p.m., breaks for dinner with his wife, then returns to work until 11 p.m. he's "dreading it. " It will be fine "once... (Globe and Mail)
Beyond the drafting table Apr 28, 2009
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Can Saban manage expectations at Alabama? Apr 11, 2009
Crawl back to your drafting tables and leave this blog to SEC football fans. buckblue. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Sports)
Drawing a blank: Triad architect firms being hit hard Mar 25, 2009
If local general contractors are counting on the drafting tables of local architecture firms to get them out of the recession, they could be in for a long wait. Demand for architecture services remains at record low levels. (Triad Business Journal, NC)
Builders seeking specialized work to keep busy Feb 27, 2009
Looking ahead, there appears to be little work on drafting tables. An index of billings at architecture firms compiled by the American Institute of Architects set record lows twice in the last four months and has shown a decline in billings throughout all of 2008. (Business Journal of the Greater Triad Area)
Trappings of Texas: Western Art & Cowboy Gear Feb 27, 2009
I thought all kids had access to huge drafting tables with limitless inks, papers, paints and brushes, Severns says. The graduate of Midland Lee High School went on to major in studio art at Texas Tech. (Alpine Avalanche, TX)
Computer donation benefits area agencies Feb 18, 2009
Earlier this month the United Way received a used network printer from Wells Fargo Bank, a copier and drafting table from Yaggy Colby Associates and discounted pickup and delivery services from O Brien Moving & Storage. For more information on how to donate, call 641-423-1774 or visit. (Mason City Globe-Gazette, IO)
The brides of Frank Feb 8, 2009
"Every minute of every day he felt supercharged with energy, out of bed before dawn and sitting at his desk before breakfast. . . . and still finding time to oversee construction around the place and get out into the fields and garden and dig with his pitchfork till the ideas began to take hold and he'd have to scuttle back to his desk even as his apprentices looked up from their drafting tables in alarm until he sang out a joke and then another and another.". My favorite character in Boyle's... (Boston Globe)
