Julian Brown RGD

Project fees have always been the backbone of a design firm's revenue—but backbones can be brittle when a single client pauses a program, a sector slows down or a pitch cycle runs long. Increasingly, RGD firm owners are treating financial resilience as something to be designed, not left to chance: building income streams that don't rise and fall with any one project, client or season.

The Annual General Meeting of Members will be held virtually on Thursday, April 30, 2026 from 6–9 PM ET. This meeting will review the Association’s accomplishments over the past year and appoint Directors to the Board for 2026–2027.

Studies show that your core memories become more detailed around the age of six. Well, that’s exactly what happened when I watched my hometown hockey team, the Edmonton Oilers, lose in Game 7 of the 2006 Stanley Cup Finals to the Carolina Hurricanes, but let’s back track a bit. Growing up in and around Edmonton, you couldn’t avoid the Oilers logo no matter where you lived, worked or played.