if4.jpg As the world struggles to find answers for sustainability issues, Novozymes is providing global sustainability through bioinnovation. Let's begin with their enzymes:
Continue reading Ink Stain Inc publishes ifculture issue #4: War for the World: How Novozymes is saving the planet by winning the war for bioinnovation talent. By Joseph Coplans.
P1080693.jpg That's why Jeff Vanderwal left the system to sell cars the RIGHT WAY and is working with Ink Stain to build a brand based on reversing the "car salesman" image.
Continue reading Ask anyone who has gone through it: Buying a car at a dealership is like slowly getting mugged. Independent car broker Jeff Vanderwal has a better idea....
CDEHomeCycle3.jpg In December of '09 and in January of '10, The Colorado Department of Education brought together its 35 literacy experts in the field for a day of brainstorming and ideation. The goal was to come up with ideas that would serve to align CDE literacy goals.
Continue reading Colorado Department of Education -- Colorado Literacy Alignment Program, A Meeting Designed by Ink Stain and Partner FutureWave Consulting.
Old chicago.jpg There are a lot of puns I could use here...that kind of sound like the beginning of a comedy act... Such as: after this opportunity Ink Stain is really rolling in the dough...or, I finally got to name a calzone after my favorite gangster...I call it the 'Al Cazone'!
Continue reading Old Chicago Chooses Ink Stain for New Menu Concepts.
TonyG.jpg I asked the Demand Point CEO, "Can I use the language you alluded to, the "drug" and "religion" similes you used in your speech to describe how people turn to Lean Manufacturing as a panacea?" "Of course," he replied. This is going to be even more fun that I thought, I said to myself.
Continue reading Ink Stain transforms CEO's "Edgy" Key Note Speech into Marketing Power .
love denver.jpg "My goal was to create a brand that encourages anyone and everyone--from museum goers to sports fans--to embrace the unique beauty of what the Denver, Colorado lifestyle has to offer," says Baird.
Continue reading Ink Stain creates Foundational Story for the Love Denver Colorado Brand.
urbandwellers_collection_hom_page.jpg A small space gives us access to a deeper connection to what we all care about most -- through the walkway of left brained efficiency and through the garden of right-brained imagination.
Continue reading A Foundational Story for ubandwellers: design and engineering so our urban homes are both playgrounds and sacred spaces... .
David Sandusky, yourbrandplan.com had me as a guest on his radio program: YourBrandRadio, and I got a chance to talk about entrepreneurial paradox, and some of the tools needed for entrepreneurs need to turn the magic corner.
Continue reading Joseph Coplans Interviewed on 'Your Brand Radio' by David Sandusky for an Entrepreneur Audience.
ifculture3yourresource.jpg Resentments were rampant. Emotional shut-downs led to the destruction of what the leaders cared most about providing, the ability for the Jesse Engineering team to have hope and to have the emotional freedom to tell the truth. One leader, Jeffrey Geller, had a goal to provide people an emotionally safe place to work. Within that safe arena, he would find and cultivate Jesse Engineering's next wave of leaders.
Continue reading Ink Stain Publishes the Third ifculture.com: When Sparks Fly.
optique_images.jpg "The first impression we have of each other," she told me during our interview, "is what occurs when we first lock eyes with a new person."
Continue reading "Jewelry for the eyes"...Ink Stain chosen to write Optique of Denver's Core Messaging--the premiere eyewear boutique for downtown Denver.....
P1070846.jpg What I was most impressed with was the depth of involvement from COAPPP's staff. The stories they told about how they help others went to the core of what's needed to form healthy communities...
Continue reading Art&Anthropology and Ink Stain with Idea-360 create a VISION FOUNDATION map for Colorado Organization on Adolescent Parenting, Pregnancy and Prevention (COAPPP)--.
estab_shot.jpg For Wilson, a prolific independent agent working under the Keller Williams banner, the real estate industry is ready for a major overhaul and reform. Wilson is taking it upon himself to develop a leadership style that will serve as model for the entire real estate industry.
Continue reading Ink Stain and Idea-360 create a vision foundation for a Keller Williams star agent; a personal leadership vision for entrepreneurial real estate excellence..
P1070532_2.jpg What made those independent and counter-culture, basement publications so intoxicating? Their rawness. Their homemade-ness. Their lack of commercial savvy and nakedness of ideas. They were a cosmic garden where minds were denuded of convention, where ideas ran streaking, where the voice of a new power of expression got published on the big cheap. It's almost strange to see Contango out there subtly chanting "death to the gloss, death to the formula: restaurant review, hot girl, handbag, repeat--take a seat!"
Continue reading Ink Stain Publishes Some Ink in the New Contango Magazine--An Ultra-niche Retro-politan Newsprint Publication Targeting the Curious Minded.
NC1.jpg On May 21st, I flew to Durham, NC to join the Futurewave Consulting crew for a "collaboratory" designed to discover new possibilities for future sustainability growth in NC.
Continue reading Ink Stain and Futurewave Consulting create "Collaboratory"--Making Sustainability a little more 'hands-on' in North Carolina.
P1060970_2.jpg The Association of Free Community Papers helps publishers of nearly 3,000 free-circulation community papers--publications that reach nearly 45 million homes weekly--build their advertising revenues.
Continue reading Massive "Cave Paintings" from Ink Stain Partner Idea-360, for AFCP.

Ink Stain Chosen for Adams County Annual Report

low-res_LOGOimage.jpg To walk into their offices is to see first hand how much Adams County people believe in their jobs.
Continue reading Ink Stain Chosen for Adams County Annual Report .
P1050542.jpg She's the expert who researched codes, oversaw installations, and kept relationships smooth during the art installing process. A long-time advocate for public art, Colleen is an expert at making sure the right artist is chosen for the right kind of public space.
Continue reading Ink Stain Client and Former Denver Airport Art Curator's Next Goal: Healing Gardens for Hospitals.
P1070219.jpg "Since you print tons of blueprints...why not print up your own storybook about what architects go through everyday?" Why not tell the story of THEIR PAIN from their perspective?" I asked the eBlueprint marketing team.
Continue reading Ink Stain creates an unusual sales tool for eBlueprint (unusual because it looks like what they sell! And, was produced using their machines).
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