Nature’s Design for Farming Coffee


Part 1 of 2 Recently I visited two family farms that are having success with mimicking the biological balance found in our earth’s ecosystem. I love to share stories about how people are experimenting with, and rediscovering nature’s design. El Toledo Coffee Plantation – Practicing Permaculture in Costa Rica If you visit Costa Rica, a

one moment at a time


Be Fully Alive is the brand name for a therapist who uses a holistic and mindfulness approach. WileyDesign’s goal: create an identity design for Be Fully Alive. Using the information received from a Message Strategy meeting with the client, I created not only the logo design but the tagline: one moment at a time. The

A Design for Your Next Meal


Everyone who eats food must experience working on a farm, I thought. Did you ever take something for granted, and when you realized its importance, your world view changed? How would you feel if your local grocery stores closed down, even for a month? Scary thought? I had a backyard garden for years and loved

Taking flight in the speaking realm


Recent Logo Designs During the spring/summer of 2018 I had the pleasure of work with these 3 speakers developing their logo designs, business cards and other communication pieces. I have no doubt they will take flight delivering their inspiring messages. Beyond the Horizon is a new brand for retired, long-time commercial airline pilot, Captain John

Living large while living small


[ This is part 2 of a 3-part blog on “design and community living” ] Design process critical in creating cohousing communities, says American architect, Charles Durrett Charles Durrett, who has lived in three cohousing communities over the past 25 years and has been involved in helping build 55, founded the term cohousing and was

A Design for Community Living


  [ This is part 1 of a 3-part blog on “design and community living” ] Nyland: A Devine Design Nyland is a cohousing community in Lafayette, Colorado, just north of Louisville and 7 miles east of Boulder. For me, finding Nirvana (Nyland) began a couple of years ago when I watched the movie “Happy”