At Catalyst Ranch, we’ve created an environment that stirs up inspiration and creativity, making corporate meetings infinitely more productive and weddings and special events wildly original.
Welcome to Creative Juice: the Catalyst Ranch blog, where you’ll find:
- our own insights into what makes creative magic happen at Catalyst Ranch
- activities and ideas you can use at home or with your colleagues, to juice up your imagination
- people, places and events around town that will feed your creative spirit
We’re glad to have you here. Now fill up your cup!
Our most recent posts:
Local Inspiration: Outdoor Community Gathering Space
Our meeting space, Catalyst Ranch, was designed to grease the wheels of important work and idea making. As such, we’re proud that we’ve been a destination not just for large businesses but also [...]
National Black Business Month in Chicago – Part 2
Chicago's Black-owned businesses provide us with plenty of opportunity to celebrate National Black Business Month. Like we mentioned in our previous post, we encourage you to familiarize yourself with more of these companies and [...]
National Black Business Month in Chicago
In honor of National Black Business Month, we're taking a look at three local Black-owned businesses that we admire for different reasons. Their goals and their contributions to Chicago and beyond speak to [...]
Local Inspiration: A Chicago Incubator for Science Startups
At Catalyst Ranch, we see ourselves as an incubator for the groups and individuals that come through and use our space. There are so many ways to engage and foster people’s ideas and [...]
Chicago is for Music Lovers: Lollapalooza 2024
It’s that time of year again! Lollapalooza is coming back to Chicago and with it, the biggest artists and bands across the music world will be lighting up Grant Park. Four days of live [...]
July is Disability Pride Month
Catalyst Ranch strives to be inclusive of all people because we believe that when we all truly work together, the knowledge and experience each person has from their background or culture will help create [...]
The power of a great pairing: The Windy City Smokeout festival
We here at Catalyst Ranch believe in collaboration as a key tool in innovation and creativity. When you're in the creating or building stage of a project, the pairing of two different things [...]
How to Leverage Your Environment to Activate Your Meeting Attendees
“Creativity is not like the weather: You can do something about it.” — John Kao, Jamming Why do people say that they need a change of environment or some fresh air when [...]
Midyear Color Check-In: Is Your 2024 as Peach Fuzz-y as Pantone’s?
Six months ago, the Pantone prognosticators heralded a year swathed in Peach Fuzz. Were they right? At the top of 2024, we challenged our clients to use the Pantone Color of the Year [...]
At Catalyst Ranch, we’ve created an environment that stirs up inspiration and creativity, making corporate meetings infinitely more productive and weddings and special events wildly original.
Welcome to Creative Juice: the Catalyst Ranch blog, where you’ll find:
- our own insights into what makes creative magic happen at Catalyst Ranch
- activities and ideas you can use at home or with your colleagues, to juice up your imagination
- people, places and events around town that will feed your creative spirit
We’re glad to have you here. Now fill up your cup!
Our most recent posts:
Local Inspiration: Outdoor Community Gathering Space
Our meeting space, Catalyst Ranch, was designed to grease the wheels of important work and idea making. As such, we’re proud that we’ve been a destination not just for large businesses but also [...]
National Black Business Month in Chicago – Part 2
Chicago's Black-owned businesses provide us with plenty of opportunity to celebrate National Black Business Month. Like we mentioned in our previous post, we encourage you to familiarize yourself with more of these companies and [...]
National Black Business Month in Chicago
In honor of National Black Business Month, we're taking a look at three local Black-owned businesses that we admire for different reasons. Their goals and their contributions to Chicago and beyond speak to [...]
Local Inspiration: A Chicago Incubator for Science Startups
At Catalyst Ranch, we see ourselves as an incubator for the groups and individuals that come through and use our space. There are so many ways to engage and foster people’s ideas and [...]
Chicago is for Music Lovers: Lollapalooza 2024
It’s that time of year again! Lollapalooza is coming back to Chicago and with it, the biggest artists and bands across the music world will be lighting up Grant Park. Four days of live [...]
July is Disability Pride Month
Catalyst Ranch strives to be inclusive of all people because we believe that when we all truly work together, the knowledge and experience each person has from their background or culture will help create [...]
The power of a great pairing: The Windy City Smokeout festival
We here at Catalyst Ranch believe in collaboration as a key tool in innovation and creativity. When you're in the creating or building stage of a project, the pairing of two different things [...]
How to Leverage Your Environment to Activate Your Meeting Attendees
“Creativity is not like the weather: You can do something about it.” — John Kao, Jamming Why do people say that they need a change of environment or some fresh air when [...]
Midyear Color Check-In: Is Your 2024 as Peach Fuzz-y as Pantone’s?
Six months ago, the Pantone prognosticators heralded a year swathed in Peach Fuzz. Were they right? At the top of 2024, we challenged our clients to use the Pantone Color of the Year [...]