Part of the 'Arped People' series of personal illustrations "aiming to capture Jean Arp's naive abstracted visual language blended with the coldness of Patrick Nagel's portraits" by MVM.

Alexa Meade's "painted people."

Deciding to build or remodel a home can be a nerve-wracking experience. Hiring a licensed architect can make the process run a whole lot smoother. Architects are highly skilled, professionally-trained individuals whose job it is to guide you through the design, planning, and construction process. It’s also important to note that some jurisdictions require a licensed architect in order to obtain building permits. So, be sure to check with your local permitting office to determine whether or not this is the case for you.

Plywood People's Billboard Bags are made from upcycled billboard materials and coffee bags by refugees who fled conflict-plagued countries for Clarkston, Georgia. Workers receive job training, English lessons, and income through the project. Photo courtesy of Plywood People.

A participant in Plywood People's Billboar Bags project at work. Photo by Morgan Blake.

Two designers—A.J. Paron-Wildes, Allied ASID, and Angela Bourne, PhD, ASID, IDC, IDEC—whose family members have struggled with developmental disabilities will share their stories and explore design strategies that work for people with sensory, cognitive, and neurological challenges. Allsteel-furnished quiet workroom featured in Interior Design for Autism by A.J. Paron-Wildes, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2013.

Jane Watson, Paul McElwee, Brahm Ahmadi, and Malaika Edwards stand by their work.

Traditional Inuit culture involved cutting blocks of snow to build igloos, which held in body heat to combat the frigid climate of the Arctic Tundra. Photo via windows2universe.org

A collection of Friedlander prints from Letters from the People (D.A.P.), published in 1993, which focused on the use of language in the urban landscape. Images copyright Lee Friedlander/Fraenkel Gallery. Click on the image to see the entire page in the book.

A is for Architect by People will Always Need Plates (Hannah Dipper and Robin Farquhar) $191 (includes shipping)

The Archivist tote ($124) by People for Urban Progress is handmade from textiles recycled from Indianapolis infrastructure, including the roofing fabric of the RCA Dome.

Intended for a much bigger room in the family’s previous home, the bed was designed by Hill and is covered in Maharam fabric in a doily print called Intricate 001 Charcoal. The side tables are from West Elm, and the AJ table lamp is by Arne Jacobsen for Louis Poulsen.

The People's Palace of Culture is one of the city's many neohistoricist buildings.

"Invasion of the Little People" by London-based artist Slinkachu.

A Coolhaus ice cream truck will be parked on the show floor at Dwell on Design in Los Angeles to dole out sandwiches, including the new Dwell on De-Vine, a red wine (Lambrusco) reduction ice cream with cinnamon and black pepper between two chocolate cookies. Photo courtesy of Coolhaus.

The Peoples Bank in Lexington, Kentucky before bulldozers arrived to warn of the building's impending demolition.

Trust the Danish to design a minimalist speaker upholstered in Kvadrat fabric.

People-watching at the casual hang-out L’Autre Café.

A modernist teller window at the midcentury modern Peoples Bank in Lexington, Kentucky

Magazine rack, $400.

Fabric Bound Planner Keeping on task need not be drudgery with the cheery Fabric Bound Planner by J. Han for Paperways. Open-dated for customizable entry, the smartly-designed interior pages feature yellow and white page stripes to keep you on track and extra graph, lined and blank pages to jot down notes, lists and any other essential information.

The fabric took Kettal three-and-a-half years to develop.

Sprawling across 32 million square feet, Berlin’s Tempelhof Airport is one of the world’s most eclectic public spaces. Home to the famed Berlin Airlift from 1948 to 1949, this enormous, monumental airfield ceased operation in 2008, and reopened its doors when residents rallied together to transform the abandoned site into a public park for all to enjoy. Now, Tempelhof’s main hall is the departure point for a new kind of voyage. But people still run the wrong way up the people movers when no one is looking.

Painted walls and ramps at the "Magic of a People" pavilion at the Hemisfair 1968, San Antonio, Texas.

Often, good design means creating synergistic relationships between people and experiences.

Fabric-clad wardrobe doors custom designed by INTERIOR-iD, along with Joseph Giles leather pulls, add texture to the master bedroom.

Here's a fine example of Rapson's architectural drawings populated with furniture and people of his devising.

A grid of the entire series of Manjari Sharma's "The Shower Series."

A 9,000-square-foot, two-story Krikorian Premiere Theatre will replace the 1960s bank at South Broadway and West High Street in downtown Lexington. The landowner, Langley Properties, and Krikorian have patiently waited for the move of the building, but a recent deadline of May 21 has been given to the Warwick Foundation.

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