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:
projectMUSIC 2013
We're eleven days away from projectMUSIC and all of us here at Catalyst Ranch could not be more excited! Out of all the events we host every year projectMUSIC is definitely one of our favorites. [...]
Play With Your Food
As a child, how many times were you told "Don't play with your food?" If you were a precocious and defiant tiny human like I was - then lots (I had a strange aversion to [...]
#WeddingWednesday: Brides on Bikes
Welcome back to #WeddingWednesday, our bi-weekly column where we bring you wedding tips, tricks, crafts, interviews and interesting Chicago wedding happenings. This week we sat down with Molly Schemper of Fig Catering and the Green Wedding [...]
The Big Draw Chicago
If you go back through notes from past meetings, I'd be willing to bet that somewhere amongst the bullet points are more than a few doodles (don't worry we won't tell). And I'd also be [...]
How To Turn Ideas Into Action
We're so excited to have Chicago Ideas Week back at Catalyst Ranch today for another Innovation Board luncheon. For those who aren't familiar with CIW, the organization was founded in 2011 with the purpose of [...]
Welcome to Creative Juice!
Loyal blog readers, when you logged on to Blog.CatalystRanch.com this morning (as I know you do so diligently every morning, right?) you may have noticed some minor (read: massive) changes. We have been working hard [...]
5 Ways To Bring Out An Introvert’s Creativity
Today’s blog entry is guest written by Kristin Neperud Merz of www.unscribbled.com where she has been designing, branding and doing all things creative since 2000. Kristin also serves Catalyst Ranch as a Creative Strategist and [...]
#WeddingWednesday: Event Planner Carlene Smith
It’s good ol’ #WeddingWednesday here at Catalyst Ranch, which means we’ve got weddings on the mind. Actually, we have weddings on our minds a lot (not just on Wednesdays) as we help people plan for [...]
4 Incredible Office Designs Where Form Meets Function
We’ve written before about how the environment you work in directly affects your capacity for ideation, innovation and efficiency. Everything from company ethos on vacation to work hour flexibility. At Catalyst Ranch one of our [...]
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:
projectMUSIC 2013
We're eleven days away from projectMUSIC and all of us here at Catalyst Ranch could not be more excited! Out of all the events we host every year projectMUSIC is definitely one of our favorites. [...]
Play With Your Food
As a child, how many times were you told "Don't play with your food?" If you were a precocious and defiant tiny human like I was - then lots (I had a strange aversion to [...]
#WeddingWednesday: Brides on Bikes
Welcome back to #WeddingWednesday, our bi-weekly column where we bring you wedding tips, tricks, crafts, interviews and interesting Chicago wedding happenings. This week we sat down with Molly Schemper of Fig Catering and the Green Wedding [...]
The Big Draw Chicago
If you go back through notes from past meetings, I'd be willing to bet that somewhere amongst the bullet points are more than a few doodles (don't worry we won't tell). And I'd also be [...]
How To Turn Ideas Into Action
We're so excited to have Chicago Ideas Week back at Catalyst Ranch today for another Innovation Board luncheon. For those who aren't familiar with CIW, the organization was founded in 2011 with the purpose of [...]
Welcome to Creative Juice!
Loyal blog readers, when you logged on to Blog.CatalystRanch.com this morning (as I know you do so diligently every morning, right?) you may have noticed some minor (read: massive) changes. We have been working hard [...]
5 Ways To Bring Out An Introvert’s Creativity
Today’s blog entry is guest written by Kristin Neperud Merz of www.unscribbled.com where she has been designing, branding and doing all things creative since 2000. Kristin also serves Catalyst Ranch as a Creative Strategist and [...]
#WeddingWednesday: Event Planner Carlene Smith
It’s good ol’ #WeddingWednesday here at Catalyst Ranch, which means we’ve got weddings on the mind. Actually, we have weddings on our minds a lot (not just on Wednesdays) as we help people plan for [...]
4 Incredible Office Designs Where Form Meets Function
We’ve written before about how the environment you work in directly affects your capacity for ideation, innovation and efficiency. Everything from company ethos on vacation to work hour flexibility. At Catalyst Ranch one of our [...]