Design+Dialogue

It is that time of year.  The team at DBI made our annual trip to the Seattle Gingerbread Village.  This year was the 25th year of the event and the firms and chefs did an outstanding job! Each year the Seattle Gingerbread Village raises money for JDRF, working to cure […]

A well-established and growing design firm, located in Seattle, Washington, has contracted with DBI to find and hire an Interior Architect. This firm is unique in their aesthetic and their design approach. With a deep interest in meeting and exceeding the design needs of the client, and with deep regional […]

Keep it professional and positive: This may seem obvious but it is worth developing a few guidelines for a social media recruiting campaign.  I am developing another post to go deeper into this topic.  The bottom line, give employees a small set of rules, be professional, positive, etc. but little […]

While visiting clients in San Francisco last week I had a great conversation about social media and how social media can be an outstanding tool to hire design talent. *BTW, this is one of the things I love about designers, they are open to robust conversations and are genuinely curious […]

Part 2 in our series for job hunters considers the portfolio. Make sure there’s context for each image—and that the print version is user friendly. By EDWARD KEEGAN More than a visual complement to the text-only résumé, the portfolio needs to communicate a designer’s experience and skills on its own. Recruiter David […]

DBI has been retained by an outstanding firm in downtown Seattle.  Here are the details of this exciting role! Company Established and growing firm with loads of room to grow a career Firm built on a foundation of collaboration, with team and clients Leverages entrepreneurs to the front line of […]

I was checking out one of my regular sites, The Awesomer, today and learned something new, which I love to do.  The 80’s style has an origin!  In fact it came from one design house!  The design house that started the trend was called The Memphis Group.  This group truly […]

Over the past few weeks I have been sharing the importance of an EVP, Employee Value Proposition.   Now that you have an understanding of the EVP I want to talk about its role in your firm’s overall Employer Branding. First, what is an Employer Brand?  In simple terms, it […]

This past Saturday ARCADE Magazine organized a tour of the old Weyerhaeuser Building. The building has caught my eye for years, each time I traveled south on I-5.  The building always looked so lush and “as one” with the landscape.  The image above shows why I would get that sense. […]

Last week I posted the first in the series on Employer Branding, I shared 6 reasons why your architecture or design firm needs to have an Employee Value Proposition (EVP). Now that you understand the reasons why your firm needs to develop and implement an EVP, it is time to […]

Well done DBI!  Way to end the week strong!  

  This past week I was meeting with a growing architecture firm here is Seattle.  We had a very robust conversation around their upcoming needs and how, as any firm or company grows, the strategies that got you here never get you there.  Meaning that as a firm grows the […]

  DBI is supporting a fantastic Seattle firm as they grow into Senior Housing.  If you are looking for a new opportunity that allows for a great deal of operational and creative freedom, reach out.  You can apply here!

This is not the first blog ever written about preparing for (and nailing) a Skype interview, but as video interviews become more and more common, I thought it was important to share some advice for putting your best (virtual) foot forward. Here are 7 useful tips that I go over […]

  I am not breaking any ground by posting on the job interview. In fact, I would guess that the amount of job interview blogs and articles on the interwebs rivals the number of cat videos. So why am I doing it? Because no one is bothering to tell you […]

The new year has started and the holidays are long behind us.  The glow of time off is over and there is work to do and little time for anything else.  We are all busy and as the economy grows through 2017, we won’t be slowing down soon.  So, I […]

As is my tradition, one of the first blogs of the year is my reblog posting referring to creating and maintaining your portfolio.  The first of the year is the ideal time to start working on your portfolio or to update your portfolio with work samples from the past year. […]

One week down, 51 weeks to go.  2017 is getting off to a great start for DBI.  For the new year, DBI is starting a weekly review blog post.  We want to post a blog each Friday to share what we learned, what we read, what we are excited about, […]

2017 is here and if you loved it or hated it, 2016 is gone!  As all of us here at DBI settle into the new year, we have some exciting goals ahead.  I am not a “resolutions” kind of guy.  I like to think of the year as a theme.  […]

This marks the eighth holiday I have had since starting DBI.  This (somewhat self-serving) proclamation is because I can honestly say that for each day within each of those seven years I have learned something new. Not all lessons have been great ones.  There is truth to the adage that […]