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    In BDW’s content strategy class, students were assigned to start a blog.  Lauren Mosenthal created “Inspiring People in Creative Spaces,” which is a series of interviews and photos of creatives in their spaces around the Boulder/Denver area.   Lauren interviewed BDW’s Artist in Residence George Lange to learn about his experience in learning [...]

    In BDW’s content strategy class, students were assigned to start a blog.  Lauren Mosenthal created “Inspiring People in Creative Spaces,” which is a series of interviews and photos of creatives in their spaces around the Boulder/Denver area.   Lauren interviewed BDW’s Executive Director David Slayden to learn what projects he is working on [...]

    We have all been there: frantically looking for your passport, only to discover the precious little booklet is nowhere to be found. You’re certain it’s somewhere in the house–but where, exactly?   A new mobile app concept in the works is attempting to solve this problem with a sort of digital search bar [...]

BDW PitchFest was the culmination of fifteen weeks of immersion in the thriving entrepreneurial culture of Boulder. Teams from BDW’s StartUp class, led by Robert Reich and supported in their efforts by the mentoring of national industry leaders, pitched their startups to an audience of vc’s, entrepreneurs, and students from CU’s startup community.     [...]

At BDW, we are always adding new projects and evolving current ones, such as Startup, Design for Social innovation, and The Story Project. Whatever the focus of a particular project, all BDW projects provide an experience in design-driven innovation.   Co-taught by George Lange and David Slayden, the first Story Project of 2013 consisted of [...]

At BDW, we are always adding new projects and evolving current ones, such as Startup, Design for Social innovation, and The Story Project. Whatever the focus of a particular project, all BDW projects provide an experience in design-driven innovation.   Co-taught by George Lange and David Slayden, the first Story Project of 2013 consisted of [...]

At BDW, we are always adding new projects and evolving current ones, such as Startup, Design for Social innovation, and The Story Project. Whatever the focus of a particular project, all BDW projects provide an experience in design-driven innovation.   Co-taught by George Lange and David Slayden, the first Story Project of 2013 consisted of [...]

    Joining Made was an easy decision. Obviously. Because come day one, it was BDW all over again. I continued learning, making, designing and creating whatever I could to get the place running. All alongside a super talented creative and dev team. It was a rare and unbelievable opportunity. We managed, in just under [...]

  piq is one of the teams incubated in the Startup class of BDW. They were recently adjudged the winners of the annual BDW PitchFest, and hot on the heels of that, they’ve launched their Kickstarter. And they need your help!   piq is a jukebox for social spaces – a tiny hardware device that [...]

We are excited to introduce the newest addition to our Board of Advisors – Kim Laama, Creative Director at AKQA! BDW is committed to Kim’s expertise in user experience, interaction design, digital advertising and content strategy and is confident that she will add to BDW’s commitment to developing creative technologies skills in our students.   [...]

One day in the early nineties, I remember waking up, tuning channels, and stumbling on Cartoon Network for the very first time. It was a moment of euphoria, but serendipitously, my first glimpse of a major visual and verbal influence. For at that moment, Chuck Jones’ adaptation of The Dot and The Line: A Romance [...]

One of the BDW teams is building a new startup, called MyCubbys . The app helps you find items in your home that you don’t use daily that get put away in some cupboard and are difficult to track down. MyCubbys is currently running a campaign to reward people for Instagramming what they’re “really #searching [...]

  Agile – Characterized by quickness, lightness, and ease of movement; nimble.   Clumsy – Lacking physical coordination, skill, or grace; awkward.   On the surface these two concepts seem miles apart, but for anyone who has tripped walking down the sidewalk you know that the difference between agile and clumsy can be as small [...]

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  In an effort to increase awareness and get users engaged for the upcoming prototype launch, MyCubbys is having an Instagram campaign called “What Are You Searching For?” Functioning as the search engine to your home, MyCubbys saves users time and effort when looking for household items. “When users save time looking for say, their [...]

    Marco Mapps, a BDW startup, is making their mark in the Boulder startup community. Tuesday April 9th, Marco took 3rd place for the 2013 New Venture Challenge IT Track Finals. Marco, created by Matt Sobieray, Meg Louw, Nathan Beekman and Nicole Poull, is a web-based matchmaking service for smaller exhibitors and buyers at [...]

  BookLab: Summer 2013 Are you looking to work with top agencies such as RG/A, Made by Many, Team One? BDW, a postgraduate program offered through the ATLAS Institute, is opening its BookLab series to the public.  BookLab consists of eight 2-day sprints with different agencies throughout the summer.   This is what a BDW [...]

        Join Lange Studio for the opening reception of “Photographs by George Lange,” happening Friday, April 5th from 5-7 p.m.   The event will take place at the Highland City Club Gallery-885 Arapahoe Avenue, Boulder, CO 80302.   George is the Artist in Residence at BDW.

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This project originated through interaction with the State of Colorado’s Office of Economic Development. The goal was to raise awareness of the robust creative economy in Colorado and encourage companies to bring their businesses there to create jobs and boost the economy. The outcome was an online portal where creative individuals and businesses could upload [...]

After the Interaction Design Association selected Boulder as the location for their annual conference, they gave BDW students the challenge of designing a comprehensive transportation solution for attendees. Part of our response was the Shuttle Tracker web application. Using basic prepaid cell phones as GPS devices, the program reliably estimated arrival times for shuttle routes [...]

  Justin’s Nut Butter approached BDW through Alex Bogusky for an idea that would inspire large corporations to get involved with the sustainable packaging movement. Justin’s goal was to develop single-serve packets of nut butter in environmentally friendly packaging. The idea went through a number of iterations and eventually formed into a website. The site’s [...]

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