Combine ideas to have fun with Wine!

Hotels Magazine recently featured a new concept that just might establish a trend. With younger clientelle becoming increasingly curious about fine wine, Strategic Hotels and Resorts, Chicago, is currently combining their stagnant tea rooms with a wine tasting experience to generate interest and revenue.

A visitor can sample over 500 varieties of wine, handmade chocolates, cheeses, and of course, tea. This interactive and hip model is expressed through design as a combination of Northern California meets the Far East (see photo).

Classes are offered, educating the consumer about the history of wine, and practical applications such as pairings with cheese and chocolates.

Creative Cue: Are you experiencing a challenge in your business that can be addressed by combining your original concept with a new concept to create a totally different result or experience? As designers, we address issues like this on a daily basis, and have found much success with this technique. Try it!

What is Design. For Life.?

As architects and interior designers we design buildings and spaces for people every day – spaces that affect the quality of life for individuals as well as groups of people. Therefore, it is only natural that our focus be on designing places that positively affect the lives of those that experience our buildings. This is the core of our mission, and can be summed up simply as: Design. For Life.

Design. For Life. encompasses many ideas and related topics that are not limited strictly to the design of buildings. Design affects everything we do from the time we wake up to the time we go to bed. The home we live in, the products we use, the food we eat, the cars we drive, the places we work, the restaurants we eat in, the stores where we shop, and the environments in which we relax were all “designed” by someone. Do they inspire us? Do they comfort us? Are they functional? Are they awful? It is clear that “Design” can bring about either positive or negative experiences and emotions.

Our goal, through the use of our blog, is to provide a look into the creative world of “Design.” and create a resource “For Life.”

DYAMI Architecture PC Launches New Website.

New York , NY – March 5, 2007. DYAMI Architecture PC, an architectural firm based in New York, unveiled their new website today. “We are extremely proud of our new website which helps communicate and promote our services and through our extensive online portfolio displays our experience through the variety of projects we work on”, commented Michael Maturo, President of DYAMI. DYAMI s a team of over sixteen architects, designers and specialists, founded in 1984. They create environments in which people Live and Work, which are functional, efficient, and comfortable, and leave one with a memorable experience. DYAMI’s work includes new ground-up construction, renovations, expansions, relocations, and interior reconfigurations. The new website is intended to provide the most up to date information regarding the firm, its process, and portfolio of projects. Michael Maturo remarked: "We are thrilled with the launch of our new site as it will better support our sales and marketing efforts and the promotion of our firm. The website enables us to easily demonstrate through our interactive portfolio the vast experience and variety of projects we’ve worked on. In addition, through our news and blog sections our clients can get up to date information on industry trends and developments.” Accolades to 180 Interactive, a boutique interactive marketing firm who designed and developed the website. “We selected 180 Interactive as our web design agency of record, due to their award winning work and experience. Ron (President of 180 Interactive) was easy to work with and was an expert at translating our offline marketing and branding into the online world. His insight and recommendations on how to make a professional website that would truly promote our deep portfolio and experience was invaluable.” Ron Breakstone, President of 180 Interactive commented "It’s been a pleasure working with DYAMI. Our goal was to make a cutting edge website including flash animated banners, easy to use one-click navigation, a brodacast e-mail system, blog, and a robust interactive portfolio to showcase their impressive work." DYAMI Architecture, PC DYAMI (www.dyami.com) is a  team of over sixteen architects, designers and specialists, founded in 1984. We create environments in which people Live and Work, which are functional, efficient, and comfortable, and leave one with a memorable experience. About 180 Interactive 180 Interactive (www.180interactive.com) is a boutique, award winning interactive marketing and design firm. 180 Interactive specializes in designing and developing high quality, strategic, interactive marketing programs for its clients. 180 Interactive’s clients include publicly and privately held companies, governmental and quasi-governmental agencies, professional practices and small businesses. 180 Interactive is headquartered in New York City. For More Information:   DYAMI Architecture, PC www.dyami.com 845.426.5300 info@dyami.com 180 Interactive www.180interactve.com 212.427.2770 info@180interactive.com

Design. For Life.

Welcome to the DYAMI blog, “Design. For Life.”