Goats to the Rescue

The City of Denver is conducting a trial program that uses goats to control invasive weeds in urban parks.  Lani Malmberg, a weed scientist with a Master’s degree from Colorado State University was awarded the $50,000 contract to control weeds for Denver City Parks with her herd of Cashmere Goats.  Goats prefer eating [...]

Design for Good

I recently attended a workshop by David Berman.   He spoke about the importance of design ethics, of committing to work for good, rather than just good design.  As designers we are responsible for the world that we help to create, and whether our expertise is in visual communication or architecture or transportation, we [...]

Creative Minds

Whenever I see people thinking outside of the box, I just have to share it…

How many music videos have you seen in which the artist is walking mournfully through a windy computer-generated landscape?  With the band, “Ok, Go” you will never yawn through another music video again. I offer this to you in the hope [...]

The Opportunity is in the Perspective

It is easy to get stuck in a rut, and to continue to do things a certain way because they have always been done that way. This applies to everything: from the way we drink our coffee, to the steps we take in planning a new development.  In those unexpected moments of clarity, [...]

I am not a painter.

“I am not a painter”  she said, and then bent her head back to weeding the garden that we had been sweating over for the last 6 hours.  Gardening was hard work and I think Carol loved it and hated it at the same time.  She hated the back aches, the neck aches, [...]

 
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