Taking our Website to WordPress
28 Jun 2010 1 Comment
in business and development Tags: blog, business, development, Google Analytics, RapidWeaver, template, theme, web host, website, Wordpress
This summer the long awaited changes to our website and blog will finally be taking place. In fact, they’ve already started. We have decided to consolidate our efforts and streamline our efficiency by moving our site from Aruba (with a link to our WordPress blog) to WordPress.com. We are hoping this change will inspire us to make more weekly updates and publish more project information.Using Adobe to Create Vector Images
15 Jun 2009 Leave a Comment
in business and development Tags: business, development, images, immagini, impresa, logo, sustainable architecture, sviluppo, vector
We’ve been doing a little office admin organization lately, including standardizing our branding and creating vector images for use in printing.
Our office primarily uses Adobe Photoshop for most of our image editing. Even though Adobe Illustrator has much more flexibility when it comes to starting from scratch with vector art, sometimes we need to convert an existing jpeg or photoshop file to vector. This requires much patience and attention to detail. Here are a couple of online tutorials that are useful for those of you who have never converted an image to vector in Photoshop: More
Mariana Pickering of Emu Architects Becomes a LEED Accredited Professional
13 Jun 2009 1 Comment
in business and development Tags: business, development, GBC Italia, impresa, LEED, LEED AP, sustainable architecture, sviluppo, USGBC
Last week Emu’s own Mariana Pickering took and passed the LEED AP exam at the Thompson Prometric center in Milan. Her trials and tribulations throughout the studing process can be viewed on her study blog – Somewhere Down the Line.
Now that USGBC has rolled out the new version of LEED, the next step for Mariana will be to complete enough CE credits to maintain a BD&C specialization.
