Posts Tagged ‘Denver

Image Space Object 6

In: Design

10 Jun 2009

While doing some research on storytelling yesterday, I came across this quote from Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part 2:
“When we mean to build, we first survey the plot, then draw the model.”
Odd, I said to myself. That’s exactly what we do at Image, Space, Object; use narratives and models to inform the design process for small [...]

Yesterday I posted this video on the buckfifty.org website – to my mind it’s a document of a time in Denver, the early 1990s, when the downtown area was still pretty deserted. My buddy Ray and I used to do performance art around town under the moniker of Two Significant Guys; our general mantra was [...]

The Accidental City

In: Denver

23 Nov 2008

1.
Denver is a square, proud, prompt little place, surrounded by immensity.
–Demas Barnes (Denver visitor, 1865)
Denver is the unlikeliest of cities; there’s no port, no access to an ocean or a major river, nowhere to get to (easily) between here and there. Compared to other urban centers, it came late to the party, and unnaturally, forced [...]

Our next door neighbors have been having some hard times. Jane, the mom, hurt herself six months or so ago by falling down some broken stairs, busted her tailbone. She’s been in a lot of pain, can’t walk too well, and has been out of work since then. She was recuperating, and then she fell [...]

Officially, we’re one week out from election day 2008. But, as Kirk Johnson wrote in this article for The New York Times, the process of voting is changing. Colorado voters are increasingly using early voting and vote by mail as options to going to the polling place on election day. It makes a lot [...]


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Hugh Graham Creative provides design strategy, research, and storytelling for corporations, non-profits, and community organizations.

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