Information about this weeks Convo by design is coming up in a minute, but first… I wanted to tell you about an amazing individual that we lost this week. Johathan Gold passed away this week. If you are a chef, restaurateur, foodie or a devoted Angeleno, you are most likely aware of Jonathan Gold. Gold was a highly decorated food critic. A James Beard award winner, a Pulitzer Prize winner for his dedicated, creative and dogged coverage of the Los Angeles food landscape. Jonat

If you have been listening for a while, you know that the show is presented by Snyder Diamond. It has been a while since we had Russ Diamond, second generation president of Snyder Diamond on the podcast and it was time to have Russ back. We were recording all weekend long at the LA Design Festival in downtown Los Angeles. Sitting with Russ is always a great opportunity to learn new things about the business side of design and following is a conversation that does not disappoi

One of the most rewarding things about doing this podcast is meeting new architects, designers, artists, product manufacturers, show producers and fans of design. Here are a few things we all have in common… We love beautiful design and amazing architecture. We all love talking about beautiful design and amazing architecture. And, best of all, we all have very different opinions as to what does and does not qualify as beautiful or amazing. I get approached quite often at indu