roberto ventura design studio

04/01/2020

02/17/2020

For hundreds of years, enslaved people were bought and sold in America. Today most of the sites of this trade are forgotten. As part of The 1619 Project, we photographed 12 of them.

02/06/2020

100000% OPPOSED TO THIS EGREGIOUS, BACKWARDS ACTION:

The proposed order, called “Making Federal Buildings Beautiful Again,” favors classical design for buildings in Washington. It has drawn opposition from architects.

11/05/2019

"“To be honest, we hadn’t thought, ‘O.K. we have to provide an exactly equivalent browsing experience (for people in wheelchairs),’” he said. “This will be a new standard for libraries, and that’s great. But that doesn’t mean it’s a flaw in the design. It’s an evolution.”
NOPE. It is a Design Flaw. Capital letters. So disappointing.

“It’s chaos,” said one of the children’s librarians.

01/25/2019

Spread the word!

ACE is an after school program that introduces you to careers in architecture, construction management, engineering and other disciplines.

11/15/2018

Design matters.

There is in fact a widespread problem with ballots in the United States: they’re often horribly designed.

10/28/2018

With its website redesign, the Art Institute of Chicago lets visitors download images of paintings in its collection for free. The Chicago museum is moving to an open access policy for tens of thousands of art images.

10/06/2018

The British street artist Banksy appeared to pull off one of his most spectacular pranks on Friday night, with a frame that shredded his “Girl With Balloon” after it sold.

09/17/2018

Very excited and honored to be part of this very special event during this year's Modern Richmond Week!
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Join us for our Thursday Modern Richmond Week tour.

08/07/2018

As I stood on the marks of the mansion, it was possible, by squinting slightly, to sense two periods of British life—one grand and unequal and gone, the other democratic and contemporary and crowded—coexisting in the heat.

07/21/2018

my favorite pen just got more favorite-y.

The clever campaign sees the brand’s iconic highlighter accentuating the extraordinary but “invisible” women who helped change the course of history.

06/19/2018

VIVA DETROIT!

Thief leaves precise instructions about pickup, careful transportation of the stolen clock, urging Ford to take the timepiece home where it belongs.