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Feb
17

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-02-17

  • @stanleyDSGN this is pretty much the best thing ever! #
  • @timdumais Nice! We are excited as well! #
  • @timdumais @aafcos Thank you & we are looking forward to seeing you there! Did you win one? Two? #
  • @stanleyDSGN Perfect! #
  • @MarkyMarkKyle We lost our car keys at Loveland *somewhere* on the mtn once. They totally found them in the Spring and mailed them to us! #
  • @stanleyDSGN Nice! #

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Aug
30

Design Rangers’ first product: Bumper Stickers!

The RGB (Over 16 million strong) and CMYK (Dots on a mission.) stickers have arrived! They are the first “official product” of the Design Rangers. YAY!

In the next few weeks I hope to set up an online ordering system (to-do list!) but until then we are kickin’ it old-school with the self addresses stamped envelope plan. Check!

UPDATE: We now have a e-commerce site set up for ordering the stickers!

Click here to head on over to that site.

Also, we’d love to see your stickers in action by posting your photos to our Facebook page!

Apr
26

Explore Cave of the Winds’
new website

Design Rangers began working with Cave of the Winds in October of last year. 2011 is the 130th anniversary and Grant Carey, owner & GM, was looking to update the cave’s website, marketing materials and develop identities for a new attraction and a special anniversary dinner theatre.

The Cave of the Winds’ website has been an amazing and fulfilling creative challenge – we feel a bit like we now have a third child! We threw our heart and soul into the creative development of this site and now we have let it go out into the world, to be all that it was designed to be.

Cave of the Winds’ previous site:


Cave of the Winds’ new site:

Click here to go to the new Cave of the Winds’ website and do a little exploring on your own!

Feb
24

Taking design to dizzying heights

How many people have been to an amusement park? Any one will do… From hometown favorites to the Six-Flags giants, these parks bring back memories of excitement and adventure (and perhaps a bit of queasiness). Young or old, everyone can recall their favorite ride or attraction and how it made them feel. The adrenaline rush that fuels the giddy laughter. The taste of cotton candy or an ice cream cone on a Summer day.

The rides, the rush, the ice cream, it’s all been crafted to take you to another world. Every detail has been thought through and any deviation from the theme can change the experience. Design plays a large role, from the art-deco signs at Lakeside Amusements in Denver to the alternate reality that is Disney, the look helps create the world you’ll be living in for that day.

It’s these images and memories that helped inspire the logo for the Cave of the Winds’ newest attraction, the Wind Walker Challenge Course. The Wind Walker, a ropes course that will let participants traverse and dangle precariously (but safely) out over the floor of  Williams Canyon is sure to attract thrill-seekers and cave-dwellers alike. Opening in Summer 2011, the Wind Walker needed a design that captured the experience while extending the sense discovery and exploration present in the rest of the property.

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