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:
The ADDIE Game (Analysis, Design, Development, Implement, Evaluate)
Here is a meeting energizer that will jump start the problem solving juices in your attendees before the start of a brain-busting session. Make up a reasonable problem scenario for your organization where people need [...]
Second Look- Artist Cayetano Ferrer brings Illusions and Mystery to the streets
Second looks. What makes people slow down and take that second look? Creativity and ingenuity are pretty clear factors that go into making a “wow” factor. Recently I ran across this artist on the creative [...]
Interview with Todd Zoellick author of Daniel Harrington Fairbanks the Third and the Great Camping Adventure
Name: Todd Zoellick Title of Book: Daniel Harrington Fairbanks the Third and the Great Camping Adventure What are some of the main themes of your book? Daniel Harrington Fairbanks the Third and the Great Camping [...]
Rainy Days- Lead Yourself to Inspiration
The windy city, Chicago, sees its fair share of rainy days, today is definitely one of them. Looking at these images is a sure way to spark some creativity into your life for the day. [...]
Interview with Aaron Goldman author of Everything I Know about Marketing I Learned from Google
Name: Aaron Goldman Title of Book: Everything I Know about Marketing I Learned from Google What are some of the main themes of your book? Keep it simple, stupid. Be where your audience is. Test [...]
Lasso Up All The Art From Our Rodeo Anniversary Party
Lassos, Mr. Ed and a whole lot of cowpokes made for an exciting Rip Roaring Rodeo for our 8th Anniversary this past Monday. We told you to pull out those cowboy boots and hat for [...]
Carved Twisted and Shocking- Sculptures by Dimitri Tsykalov
With Halloween right around the corner, people have been carving pumpkins like madmen. Well, there’s a Russian artist who has been doing a little carving of his own, but instead of using pumpkins he’s using [...]
Sculpture out of the Ordinary
Cardboard, Styrofoam, Plywood are just a few in a list of ordinary objects, Tobias Putrih uses to build his not-so-ordinary sculptures. His fragile structures span from small modular objects to larger installation environments that create [...]
Realize Your Next Big Idea this Thursday- Create. Innovate. Repeat.
We all are innovators in our own ways. We know how creative you can be, we have seen it over and over again from focus groups to ideation sessions, you all bring the “sky [...]
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:
The ADDIE Game (Analysis, Design, Development, Implement, Evaluate)
Here is a meeting energizer that will jump start the problem solving juices in your attendees before the start of a brain-busting session. Make up a reasonable problem scenario for your organization where people need [...]
Second Look- Artist Cayetano Ferrer brings Illusions and Mystery to the streets
Second looks. What makes people slow down and take that second look? Creativity and ingenuity are pretty clear factors that go into making a “wow” factor. Recently I ran across this artist on the creative [...]
Interview with Todd Zoellick author of Daniel Harrington Fairbanks the Third and the Great Camping Adventure
Name: Todd Zoellick Title of Book: Daniel Harrington Fairbanks the Third and the Great Camping Adventure What are some of the main themes of your book? Daniel Harrington Fairbanks the Third and the Great Camping [...]
Rainy Days- Lead Yourself to Inspiration
The windy city, Chicago, sees its fair share of rainy days, today is definitely one of them. Looking at these images is a sure way to spark some creativity into your life for the day. [...]
Interview with Aaron Goldman author of Everything I Know about Marketing I Learned from Google
Name: Aaron Goldman Title of Book: Everything I Know about Marketing I Learned from Google What are some of the main themes of your book? Keep it simple, stupid. Be where your audience is. Test [...]
Lasso Up All The Art From Our Rodeo Anniversary Party
Lassos, Mr. Ed and a whole lot of cowpokes made for an exciting Rip Roaring Rodeo for our 8th Anniversary this past Monday. We told you to pull out those cowboy boots and hat for [...]
Carved Twisted and Shocking- Sculptures by Dimitri Tsykalov
With Halloween right around the corner, people have been carving pumpkins like madmen. Well, there’s a Russian artist who has been doing a little carving of his own, but instead of using pumpkins he’s using [...]
Sculpture out of the Ordinary
Cardboard, Styrofoam, Plywood are just a few in a list of ordinary objects, Tobias Putrih uses to build his not-so-ordinary sculptures. His fragile structures span from small modular objects to larger installation environments that create [...]
Realize Your Next Big Idea this Thursday- Create. Innovate. Repeat.
We all are innovators in our own ways. We know how creative you can be, we have seen it over and over again from focus groups to ideation sessions, you all bring the “sky [...]