urban design

Using Design to Scale

By John G. Moore, Creative Director Public art is not often thought of in the same vein as internet scalability—but it should be. Scaling applications and public artwork are one in the same. Artist scale things all the time—we are masters of scaling. Venture capitalists and Internet founders should hire more artists. We know what […]

On Loving Our Cities

Justin Garrett Moore of Urban Patch gave a talk at CreativeMornings Indianapolis, April 2015. Topics discussed included cities, humility, love, and even gentrification. The presentation also highlighted our Indy Redbud Project. Free events like this one are hosted every month in dozens of cities. Discover hundreds of talks from the world’s creative community at http://creativemornings.com/talks

So… what is this Urban Patch anyway?

We get a lot of questions about our name, the Urban Patch. We like to think it’s pretty cool and ‘catchy.’ But it does also have a serious meaning for our work, which is also inspired by our roots in urban community development. One of the project’s founders, Justin Moore, is an urban designer and […]