“Napkin-spiration: A Designer’s Happy Hour” is a group exhibition featuring napkin sketches from RATIO designers.

RATIO is an international, interdisciplinary design practice offering services in architecture, preservation, interior design, landscape architecture, urban design + planning, and graphic design.

After more than 35 years, RATIO has evolved to a firm of more than 150 designers and administrative staff. The firm’s four studio locations in Indianapolis, IN; Champaign, IL; Raleigh, NC; and Chicago, IL allow our team of design professionals to cross geographic boundaries and provide a high level of architectural design excellence to clients throughout the country.

“At RATIO, we’re passionate about more than just great design. The interests of our people – and the communities in which we live and work – drive the work that we do.

Over the past two years RATIO has participated in a studio-wide napkin sketching contest to encourage and promote connectivity between the various disciplines and studio locations. As visual beings in the design world, what better way to express and share ideas than sketching on a scrap pieces of paper at a meeting, on the back of an envelope at a kitchen table or in this instance, a napkin at a bar?”

These RATIO designers hope “A Designer’s Happy Hour” inspires you to express and share ideas in your own way.

This exhibition will be open July 5-19 in the Guichelaar Gallery.