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FEATURED JOB: Senior Project Manager (Healthcare) in Bremerton, WA Outstanding 35+ person architecture and interior design firm, is seeking to fill an outstanding Healthcare Project Manager leader. This firm, housed in their own award-winning LEED Platinum studio, has high design quality and sustainability as the cornerstones of their practice. The [...]

Does Your Firm Have a Dedicated Interview Team? If not, you are doing it wrong. Think about your firm’s most recent hire.  What was the biggest challenge?  In today’s market, I would say, with confidence, that the most challenging aspect of your search was finding the talent in the marketplace.  [...]

The job market for Architecture and Interior Design talent is heating up.  Firms across the globe are hiring and have set a very high bar for the people they make an offer to.  For better or for worse, much of those hiring decisions are made on the strength of the [...]

DBI has been successfully helping the global Architecture and Interior-Design industry discover and hire executive talent for over six years!  The firm has three offices (Seattle, New York, and Hong Kong) and supports clients in the major design cities of the world. DBI believes in dedication to excellence and that [...]

Many of the candidates I work with are searching for new opportunities outside the city or town they currently live in.  In these uncertain times, openness to relocation can give a candidate a real edge in a job search.  I understand that there are big challenges when you relocate to [...]

Many of the candidates I work with are searching for new opportunities outside the city or town they currently live in.  In this recovery, as the competition for roles is increasing, openness to relocation can give a candidate a real edge in a job search.  I understand that there are [...]

As design competition increases and current design practices mature, how does evidence-based design begin to inform areas of design outside of healthcare, and what is the resulting impact on the competitive advantage of design firms that integrate evidence-based design throughout their practice areas? Evidence-based design, which grew out of the [...]

  So there she is, my “new” 1985 Cadillac Eldorado.  It is a wedding gift from my husband.  It is big, blue and in need of a great deal of work.  Now I know a little about cars.  I was lucky enough to have parents who believed in making me [...]

Today, I want to talk about partnership. Not partners, as in one or many who hold an ownership stake in your firm, but those you may team with from time to time. To my firm, and to me as a leader and recruiter, these partnerships have become paramount. By partnering [...]

I was reading the Puget Sound Business Journal this weekend and came across a quote from Buckminster Fuller.  It reads: “You never change things by fighting the existing reality.  To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” These are exciting times at DBI.  As a [...]

Over sharing.  My mother always warned against it by tsk-ing to me that “fools names and fool faces always appear in public places”.  Mind you, this is the same mother who now posts every cooked meal, ordered desert, baby picture, and Gin Rummy hand on Facebook!   We have met [...]

Typography!  I love it.  I have always loved it, and that is not hyperbole.  I remember doodling letters from a very early age.  I am intrigued by the forced design recognition of typography.   You literally cannot, not notice the design, if you want to read what you are looking [...]

Seattle, WA- December 10, 2012- DBI/David Brown International is excited to announce the hiring of Mike Buring PHR, in to the firm’s Seattle office.   DBI/David Brown International is pleased to welcome Mike Buring to their growing recruiting team.  With a strong background in Recruiting as well as Human Resources and [...]

Do you work best in the creative energy of a design studio?  Do you enjoy meeting the challenge of designing new and unique projects all over the world?  Would you say yes to an opportunity to work with the best, creative minds in the business?  If so, please consider this [...]

Global lifestyle brand, recognized around the world as a premium brand and whose products include apparel, accessories and fragrance collections for men and women as well as childrenswear and home furnishings.  As a whole, this company comprises one of the world’s most widely recognized families of consumer brands.  This firm [...]

Global Design firm, responsible for some of the most recognizable and profiled places on the globe, is looking for a Senior Interior Designer to join their Corporate Interiors Studio. My client needs a talented designer, someone with at least 10 years of tasteful design experience and deep exposure to corporate [...]

Think about the last thing you purchased from home. How did you do it? Were you on-line? Did you use the phone? What did you buy? How long did it take to get your purchase? Three days? A week? Did you get it overnight? What did that cost? What if [...]

Today I received my digital Architect magazine and while I was reviewing it, one story hit me like a ton of bricks.  It is no secret; I own a recruiting/staffing agency, not an architectural firm.  What so surprised me about the story was that it hit me where I live, [...]

Earlier this month I attended Global Shop in Las Vegas.  For those of you not in retail design, Global Shop is THE yearly trade show for all things retail.   It covers everything from workshops on the latest trends to new shelving for store displays. I attended the show this year [...]

As we in the West put away our party hats, noise makers, aspirin and eye drops and start the work of the new year, the Chinese are getting ready to celebrate.  Chinese New Year is January 23, 2012 and 2012 is the year of the Dragon! People born under the [...]