Richard Stradling reports on the progress of the Convention Center’s heap of excavated dirt becoming a city park in Raleigh – all via a design charrette organized and facilitated by Designbox. A lot of the material has already arrived and has been sculpted at the Dix site.

Each year the Independent Weekly gives a select few organizations an award to “honor a handful of people and projects [to] illustrate the creative spirit of the Triangle’s arts communities.” This year Designbox was selected as one of them. See article by Fiona Morgan. We do have a few corrections

Ty Beddingfield has moved into Designbox to establish headquarters of Gamila Products, LLC. Beddingfield and Rich Futrell were the founders of The Third Place Coffeehouse in Raleigh. As their highly successful coffee business also grew their sales of fine loose teas, they saw a need in the market for a new tea infuser. After contacting Aly Khalifa [...]

Lance Armstrong and will be riding in this year’s Tour de France with a host of new cutting edge equipment, but he’s riding with one accessory for three years in a row: the Trek Batcage. Designed by Aly Khalifa to be the lightest, easiest and best-retention bottle cage on the market, the Batcage has proven itself to [...]