3north bids a fond farewell to Eric Gordon, the firm’s Graphic Designer extraordinaire, who is leaving the firm to accept a position with Burris, a Greensboro, North Carolina-based advertising agency. We’re all envious of Eric because he gets to be at home, wearing his favorite penguin pajamas, as he cyber commutes. continued…

The Box’s vast ground floor space hosted a creative feeding frenzy of sorts as VCU arts students forged animalistic design at Anteeksi’s LIVING THINGS SAFARI on March 10, 2006.

Anteeksi, possibly an artists’ collective (it’s not entirely clear) from Helsinki, Finland, hosted a workshop for six teams, consisting of VCU Interior Design, Fashion, and Graphic Design, and Communication students, to conceptualize, fabricate, and present their living things’ creations. The students—all “Zookeepers” in this milieu—used the vacant ground floor to stage a fashion show, replete with catwalk, of course, and to show off their animalist tendencies in creatively constructed cages.

When the circus was over, everyone sought the local watering hole, and ended up cooling off at Legends down the street. To see fun pics of the Anteeksi experience at 3north, go to www.anteeksi.org. You’ll wish you had been there.

Kudos to 3north, whose work on Berry Hill Plantation Resort is featured in “Prize Destination,” an article on South Boston in the April 2006 edition of Virginia Living. The firm’s artwork program and their designs for the resort’s new Blackberry Spa are featured in the article’s montage of photographs, and their work in the historic resort’s Registration Room, Plantation Lodging, and Darby’s Tavern is described as ensuring that guests “meet the plantation history head-on,” which was precisely 3north’s intention.