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A Look at Hospitality Design Change from the Inside

While it’s a daily occurrence for many of us to open an industry trade journal and look at hospitality design and how it is evolving from the guest perspective, we rarely pause long enough to consider how design is evolving from the business-of-design perspective which, as the COO and CFO of my company, is the space I live in most of the time.  As I look back at 20 years of interviewing design candidates for Clear on Black, our boutique-sized firm, I see some fairly radical change in how we’re doing the business of design.