Grounded in Creativity It is more than just our marketing tag-line; it is our mantra, our primary course to advance our business. Since starting out as modest start-up business in 2003 to a 5 person highly efficient firm located in Naperville, our growth over the past seven years has been the direct effort to focus on the client by affording them a quality experience and a surprisingly creative outcome to their project. We have worked with hundreds of clients in our young existence, helping them to achieve success.

My vision for the firm has always been to offer hands-on firm leadership for every project endeavor that we undertake. It is extremely important to me that our clients receive our very best. Cookie cutter design and working with inexperienced staff are a real concern to the client. Our approach to servicing our clients is to make sure this never happens. As the economy is slowly re-correcting itself back to providing design and planning firms more project opportunities than in the past few years, we are uniquely placed to offer a full range of services on a variety of project types.

The firm has three primary core areas of concentration. They are landscape architecture, park and recreation and environmental design. Within these areas is a wealth of opportunities to advance our work. The emphasis to achieve success is to focus on delivering a quality experience with a creative design outcome. It sounds quite simple and it is. I am amazed at the projects we have completed in the past twenty four months and at what a savings to the client. This is particularly true to our governmental clients. Those who took the risk to build now have seen significant savings. I can only wonder what will be said in ten years to those who decided to stand on the sideline and let these once in a lifetime opportunities pass by.

On a recent trip to Europe, I spent a good amount of time in Germany and the Netherlands. The contrast to our economies could not have been more apparent. The number of construction cranes in Munich was over ten alone. Investment with optimism was everywhere I traveled. Public squares and parks were bursting with users enjoying the opportunity to socialize and connect with nature. I would say the goal was not to design and build quick meaningless development, but to create and craft projects for the well being of the community for the long haul. I think we can do better. I think we can use creativity to craft spaces that create an impression. All of this reminds me why I started down this journey seven years ago.

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Kid's Around the World Playground Build | Bahamas In 2007 Tod Stanton traveled with Kid's Around the World to the Bahamas to construct a playground. Kid's Around the World, with the help of their volunteers, give children and communities the opportunity to play on new, safe & quality playground equipment. These actions make it possible for communities to provide for their children. To read more about Kid's Around the World, please visit their website.

Village of North Aurora Overlook Landscape Installation Design Perspectives, Inc., with the help of volunteers, dedicated their time & labor to implement their landscape design for the recently constructed overlook in North Aurora. The overlook is positioned at the dam on the Fox River near IL-56 in North Aurora.

Kid's Around the World Playground Build | Rockford, IL In 2008 Sarah Huth worked with the organization Kid's Around the World to construct a playground for Jackson School in Rockford, IL. Sarah wanted to help the children and give back to a community that was 'close to home.' To read more about Kid's Around the World, please visit their website.

Design Perspectives Giving Back Alsip Park District Bolingbrook Park District Burbank Park District Crystal Lake Park District Genoa Township Park District Illinois Association of Park Districts North Aurora River District Alliance Oak Lawn Chargers Baseball Club Pleasant View Fire Protection District South Suburban Parks & Recreation Village of North Aurora IL