The Best Graphic Design of the Year: Announcing the Winners of the PRINT Awards
In 2020, after being independently acquired by a group of the industry’s best design minds, PRINT launched its first significant website redesign in a decade, and returned to the design scene to provide more inspiration, design thinking in action, thoughtful longreads, and eye candy galore than ever before.
We also took stock of our signature annual competition the Regional Design Awards and decided it was time to bring it into the present like never before.
When it launched in 1980, the competition had a singular goal: to show that great design was being created in cities all across the United States, and not just in the usual hubs like New York City. The democratization of the internet has only further brought that concept to powerful life, and so it was time to formally embrace the fact that no matter where a designer lives or works, the best design rises to the top.
Owners of the historic Seminole Building Downtown applied to the city for a permit to build a rooftop patio on the third floor of the three-story building at 400 N. Hogan St.
River City Contractors is the contractor for the $131,182 project, which will create the patio on the roof above the second-floor.
Alex Sifakis, president of the ownership group, said it should be completed in the first quarter.
Sifakis said Dec. 8 the patio will create about 800 square feet of outdoor space to complement the interior event space.
It could be used for outdoor cocktails, music, photos and other uses. Umbrellas will provide shade.
‘Dashing Through Downtown’ scavenger hunt launches Monday
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Starting Monday, you can take part in a QR code scavenger hunt and enter for chances to win prizes. Downtown Vision’s “Dashing Through Downtown” weeklong event aims to bring people to downtown Jacksonville.
At Maddy D’s Café on West Adams Street, Kealalani Baumann is always serving up something tasty. This year has been a challenge for business owners, but Baumann says things are looking up.
“It was doing really well at the beginning of the year, and then COVID hit,” Baumann said. “We closed down for about two months, and then opened back up. It’s subtly getting better, a little bit more traffic every day.”
Do This! Nutcrackers, tubas and dreidels
• The Jacksonville Symphony is all in on the Christmas season, with five performances of holiday staples scheduled for this weekend. The First Coast Nutracker Suite, an abbreviated version of the traditional performance, is scheduled for 8 p.m. Friday, 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday in the Times-Union Center s Moran Theater. $26-$67. An also-abbreviated Handel s Messiah Suite is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday, across the hall at Jacoby Symphony Hall. $25-$75.
• Oompah! Tuba Christmas, the event where amateur tuba, sousaphone, baritone and euphonium players gather to play holiday songs, starts at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at Seawalk Pavilion in Jacksonville Beach. It s free to watch. Show up at 9 a.m. if you want to play.