Join PRAXIS3 Principal Brian Tanner in discussing The Future of Research Libraries, a 6-part webinar series. The live webinars will be held at 11 AM on the dates below. Register and receive a recorded version even if you are unable to attend. We hope you will join us for one or all sessions!

We are thrilled to share that PRAXIS3 won a Best of the Best award in the Save category for our Lazy Betty restaurant project at the 2020 IIDA’s Georgia Chapter Awards Banquet. We are incredibly proud of our team and this budget-friendly, 1,500 SF renovation. Lazy Betty presents an exceptional dining experience of several-generations honed family recipes with an open kitchen. This upscale but relaxed open concept became the central theme of the interior design approach including elements such as banquette seating in the dining room, a bar, a section for private accommodation and events, and a five-seat chef’s counter where diners can watch Chef Ron in action. Again, congrats to the team and Lazy Betty!

PRAXIS3 transformed the fashion world as we walked the runway at IIDA Georgia’s Dressed, a charity fashion show event in which design firms from across Atlanta compete by designing garments made from sponsor materials. This year, PRAXIS3 created our garment using upholstery and draperies from Architex, furniture components from Herman Miller, along with acrylic, metal, and 3D printing from APCO. The theme this year, the tenth year of Dressed, was “The Future of Fashion”, and the entries had to imagine what the world of fashion would look like in 100 years.

In our vision of the future, members of society have suppressed their individual traits and distinctions in order to thrive and advance in a world without war, class struggle, and discrimination. This is achieved by implementing a technologically advanced uniform for all people. Our monochromatic outer garment was designed to exaggerate certain aspects of the human form and obscure others, hiding our model’s true identity. However, as human nature inevitably takes its course, she has grown the desire for self-expression and to show the world her true form and individuality. Fabric wrapped acrylic panels were used to form the exoskeleton over the chest and legs. The power source element was created with the Herman Miller Sayl Chair and the illuminated solar panel array was printed on thin translucent material and perforated by APCO. The mask portion of the uniform was made from a 3D printed base and hinge mechanism and obscures the most personal identifiable facial features while still allowing vision and speech.

Our model begins her transformation by pulling a hidden cord within the bottom part of her uniform to release the panels and reveal colorful fabrics and bright printed colors that were folded within. She then detaches each side of her chest piece and dramatically throws back her power source and the remainder of her outer garment. Underneath each outer piece reveals more and more colorful pieces of her identity and passions. Her final change is to her mask, a literal and metaphorical symbol of hiding the self. She pulls on hidden cords to raise the panels of the mask into a crown in celebration of her revealed identity.

Our very own Rubi Carrero strutted her stuff on the runway at the Tabernacle. Benefiting Dress for Success, IIDA Georgia’s Dressed is one of PRAXIS3’s community engagement that we participate in every year.