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Celebrating Our Business Woman of the Year: Amy Tobia

Late last year, finalists for the San Diego Business Journal’s Business Women of the Year were announced — and FS Design Group Principal Amy Tobia was one of them! Amy is extraordinary for running a ...

FS Design Group Hires Designer Jacquie Heidner

New designer brings diverse experience to our interior design firm We’ve added another well-rounded interior designer to our staff: Jacquie Heidner jumped right in! If you haven’t had a chance to meet her yet, keep ...
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FS Design Group Principal Named a 2024 Mentor of the Year

San Diego Business Journal includes Amy Tobia as one of its 29 Mentors of the Year for 2024 What’s better than being honored for helping other people succeed!? We’re proud to share that San Diego ...

Interior Design Certification: NCIDQ-What?

FS Design Group Professionals Work to Earn NCIDQ Certification NCIDQ is an interior design certification that designers can earn after working in the industry for a number of years and then studying for and passing ...

The “Why” of Your Workspace: Four Questions Your Designer Should Ask You

By Amy Tobia It’s time to re-design or move your business space. Perhaps you have rows of empty cubicles as more employees work remotely. Or maybe you have experienced so much growth in recent years ...

Transforming a Historic Space with Coastal Vibes for Flock Freight’s Innovative Encinitas Office

Flock Freight is a FreightTech company revolutionizing the transportation and logistics space by creating a smarter, more sustainable supply chain. The technology they’ve developed and patented makes shipping simpler and more affordable for companies and ...

Art Alive: A Blooming Talent on our Staff

Visitors from near and far flock to the San Diego Museum of Art in Balboa Park each spring for Art Alive. This stunning exhibition features fresh floral interpretations of some of the Museum’s artworks. Selected ...

Makeover Edition: Designing for Pure Salon Studios

Interior Design for a Growing Empire Pure Salon Studios is on a roll, and we’re excited to be along for the ride! Pure Salon Studios Power Team Sandra Alavi and her business partner Vanessa, who ...

Case Closed: Wingert’s New Law Firm Space is Downright Appealing

Design Reflects Changing Space Requirements of Law Offices Law firm Wingert Grebing Brubaker & Juskie LLP has a beautiful new, 8,000-square-foot home in Regent Properties’ 2 Columbia downtown San Diego building. The Wingert team had ...

Staff Spotlight: Operations Manager Sam Cedeno

We count ourselves lucky at FS Design Group to have a team of action-oriented doers who genuinely admire one another. In that spirit, we’d like to shine our staff spotlight on Sam Cedeno. As operations ...
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Staff Spotlight: Laura Vavrunek

After knowing her for years as a savvy product rep, talented designer and an active member of CREW San Diego, we were so excited when we had the chance to bring Laura Vavrunek onto our ...
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FS Design Group Overcomes Challenges in Designing PACE Facilities for Seniors

Creating a place for seniors that feels welcoming and warm, but is also safe and promotes wellness, can be challenging. This is especially true when designing Program for All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) facilities. ...

Generational Influences on the Workplace

Shakespeare’s Juliet famously asked, “What’s in a name?” She continued with this provocative thought, “That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.”  During one of our Friday happy hour ...
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Staff Spotlight: Leslie Michelle

We are so enthusiastic about the talent on our FS Design Group team. We hope you enjoy getting to know more about one of our talented designers, Leslie Michelle. From the initial client meeting, through ...
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San Diego Business Journal Women of Influence Top 50 Over 50: Bre’an Fox

For her many design accomplishments and her impact on San Diego’s business, real estate and medical communities, FS Design Group Founder Bre’an Fox was named one of the San Diego Business Journal’s Women of Influence ...

Nurturing Young Talent Through Internship

Read About Our Internship Program from an Insider’s Perspective FS Design Group has supported the development of talent in our industry through various internships and CREW San Diego’s mentorship program. We believe it’s important to ...

Designing the Hub Office: Tenants and landlords are paying attention to this trending office model

By Amy Tobia This is a tale of two offices, but one concept.  That concept is the hub office. For companies that can offer workplace flexibility, the hub office is an intriguing idea.  FS Design ...

Victorian Yet Modern: Designing the Julian, Calif. Medical Clinic

Two cousins, both Civil War veterans, headed west from Georgia to seek their fortunes. They settled in a lush meadow near the Cuyacama Mountains and founded the Town of Julian. About an hour east of ...
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HD – 3 Takeways

Hospitality Design: Leveling the Seesaw of Challenges Like most of the world, interior designers are on a seesaw that teeters between the desire to return to business as usual and the need to adapt to ...
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Welcome to our Team, Alyssa Irwin!

We’re happy to introduce another member of our FS Design Group team. Alyssa Irwin began her career working on commercial tenant improvement projects and then trying her hand at residential project management and design. She ...

Congrats Bre’an Fox: A SD Metro Woman of Accomplishment 2022

FS Design Group President Bre’an Fox was named to the _San Diego Metro’_s Women of Accomplishment list for 2022 in recognition for all that she has achieved — both for herself and for the greater ...
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FS Design Group Welcomes Designer Armando Lao to the Team

We’re happy to announce that Armando Lao has joined our team as an interior designer! After 14 years working in sales and healthcare, Armando realized he wanted to pursue a more creative career. While getting ...

Celebrating a Retirement and a new (Not-So-New) Owner

After a remarkable 30 years in business, FS Design Group is celebrating new ownership. Longtime team leader Amy Tobia will be taking the reins from Bre’an Fox, who looks forward to her well-earned retirement. While ...

Designing a Beautiful and Functional (S)PACE for Seniors

Allowing senior citizens to live at home but receive health services, supervision, meals, social interaction and activities daily is at the heart of the Program for All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly, or PACE. Designing the ...
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Happy 10-Year Work Anniversary, Amy Tobia!

In a design firm, there are people who like to design things, people who like to teach and people who like to manage the process. FS Design Group Senior Project Manager Amy Tobia likes to ...
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FS Design Group & Founder Bre’an Fox Mark Firm’s 30th Year

Before there was FS Design Group there was Facility Solutions. It was Bre’an Fox’s unique vision 30 years ago to fill a critical need in San Diego’s booming commercial real estate industry. As the industry’s ...

FS Design Group Employee Spotlight Lori Reynolds, CID, NCIDQ

By Bre’an Fox​ With more than 20 years of experience, Lori has worked on corporate, hospitality, healthcare, multi-family, education and civic projects throughout the U.S. and the world. Her projects have earned honors and distinction ...
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Palomar Medical Center Escondido: Designed with Care

Chances are, when someone is visiting a medical facility, they may not be having a great day. So what if that day can feel just a bit more manageable through the thoughtful and functional design ...

Our Team is Growing: New Hires at FS Design Group

We’re excited to have added two new junior designers to our staff last fall. Meet Seyda Gonden Wyatt and Jillian Deneroff! Seyda is skilled in 3-D rendering, floor plan design, FF&E, and creating intelligent interior ...

The Importance of Sketching During Meetings

A few lines drawn quickly on paper with a pen can transform an idea-s-into a shared vision-s-. Today, when so much interior design work is done with high-tech computer programs, there is still immense value ...
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Going a Cut Above with Sola Salon Studios

The managing directors of Sola Salon Studios “can’t open new locations fast enough.” So says Austin Campbell, who holds the franchise rights to Sola Salon Studios in San Diego. Scott Ditsworth, Austin’s sometimes business partner ...
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Communication & Coordination: A Public Agency Office Refresh

A federal public agency occupying the entire floor of a downtown San Diego office building needed an update that not only made the space look better, but also created better functionality. The challenge for this ...

Amy Tobia Women of Influence in Construction, CRE and Design

San Diego Business Journal’s 2021 List Includes the Senior Project Manager Congratulations to FS Design Group Senior Project Manager Amy Tobia on being named a Woman of Influence in Construction, Commercial Real Estate and Design ...

Bre’an Fox Named Globe St. Elite Women of Influence

The Annual List Recognizes Women in Commercial Real Estate [GlobeSt.’s annual list](https://www.event.globest.com/womenofinfluenceawards/class-2021) celebrating Women of Influence in Commercial Real Estate includes FS Design Group President Bre’an Fox, who also received special recognition for being a ...
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Why outdoor Spaces, Gyms Rank High in Office Space’s New Era

In this new world where people may get a choice about working from home or from the office, landlords face the challenge of making their properties so enticing that working from the office is preferable. ...
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The Five W’s of the New Office: Workplace Reentry After COVID-19

COVID-19 has dramatically changed the way we work, accelerating some trends already in place and triggering others. The response from company owners has varied. While some moved swiftly to accommodate long-term work-from-home systems, others employed ...

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