Tim Brown is an award winning designer and CEO of the Palo Alto, CA design firm Ideo. He’s got a really thought provoking piece on design thinking in the June issue of the Harvard Business Review (sadly, it’ll cost you $6.50 to read more than this excerpt if you don’t have a subscription). I was [...]
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Design thinking
August 27th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Categories: Coworking · design
Whose job is it to check the sign?
August 4th, 2008 · 3 Comments
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A shout out to Em Dash
June 29th, 2008 · No Comments
After interviewing a number of design firms to find just the right team to help us pull together elements to express everything from our logo to our swag to our mission to our excitement at building LaunchPad Coworking, we had the great fortune to connect with Erin Mayes of Em Dash LLC. I caught up [...]
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LaunchPad Coworking executive summary in Wordle
June 23rd, 2008 · 4 Comments
Wordle is a neat, lightweight web application that lets you make beautiful tag clouds out of any text. I entered the text of LaunchPad Coworking’s Executive Summary directly from the business plan, did a bit of simple tweaking, and got this:
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No glass ceiling here
June 18th, 2008 · 4 Comments
Murray calls it the louver. Tina calls it the sombrero. I call it the vault. What is it? It’s the ceiling in the LaunchPad cafe — the beautiful brainchild of Murray Legge, inspired by Shigeru Ban — built to shield our view of the drab cubicles upstairs, but let in the natural light from the [...]
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Is that a floating room in your atrium or are you just glad to see me?
February 25th, 2008 · 4 Comments
I’ve updated the Drawings and Models page with our second set of 3D renderings as well as a newer floorplan.
You’ll notice an interesting, oddly-shaped room suspended above the cafe… Here’s the story on that:
Brazos Place, the downtown mixed use space we’ve secured for LaunchPad Coworking, has an atrium in the middle of the building. It’s [...]
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An interview with Murray Legge, structural poet
February 16th, 2008 · 3 Comments
Now that the lease is signed, we’re rolling up our sleeves with Murray Legge, the visionary architect who comes to us by way of LZT Architects, Inc.
Murray grew up in Canada and got his architectural training at Cooper Union in NYC. He lives in Austin with his wife, the filmmaker Deborah Lewis, and their daughter. [...]
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