Creative prompt...
Or, what triggers creativity for you?
The Red Wing community is blessed with many beautiful assets that can all trigger creative responses.
We have a beautifully preserved downtown, the Mississippi River, The river bluffs and all kinds of authentic working elements (the barges, the railroads and the manufacturing).
This time of year is especially creative because of the changing of the seasons and the longer autumnal light.
The Acrylic Print
For
the past six months we have been quietly, but
diligently working on a new family of products that
we call the Acrylic Print.
The idea was to have a premium family of products
that would compliment the Panel Prints.
It took several iterations, but we are delighted to
introduce the Acrylic Print. We are very excited
about the sharp and vivid details this presentation
package provides.
More details can be found at
Red Wing Digital.
The Red Wing Innovation Incubator
As mentioned below, much of the year has been taken
up with the generation of the Red Wing Creative
Economy report.
Related, and even more of a time sink, has been the
initiation of the Red Wing Innovation Incubator.
This is a physical space dedicated to help grow and
mentor new businesses in the Red Wing Community.
This activity is being driven by Red Wing Downtown
Main Street and our involvement is because of a firm
belief that the stronger the local economy is, the
stronger our business can become.
Visit the web site and see what the hub-bub is all
about. Red Wing
Innovation Incubator.
Busy, busy , busy...
It
has been busier here than it might appear.
Earlier this year, we became involved in a project to
try and measure the local Creative Economy and
contrast it to other communities. Armed with this
information, the goal becomes to make defensible
recommendations going forward.
This is important to our business for obvious
reasons, but it is also important to the community
because this is where the economy is growing very
rapidly.
We couldn't (or even shouldn't) do a significant
project like this alone. We partnered with the
Southern Minnesota Initiative Foundation, Red Wing
Downtown Main Street, Inc., Anderson Center at Tower
View, Red Wing Arts Association, ArtReach and the
Sheldon Theatre of Performing Arts.
This is good company to keep and adds credibility to
the final report.
We are proud of the final report and encourage you to
download your own
copy.