Fiscally-informed planning, design, and community engagement to cultivate strong neighborhoods.
Marshall Hines, CNU-A
Creative Director
Based in
Leander, Texas
Contact
marshall@verdunity.com
214-430-4450 ext. 205
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Registrations
Congress for the New Urbanism
CNU-A
Professional Affiliations
Congress for the New Urbanism
National Town Builders Association
American Institute for the Graphic Arts
Strong Towns
Strengthsfinder Top 5
Input, Learner, Achiever, Self-Assurance, Maximizer
Education
Communication Design
St. Edwards University
About
Marshall’s professional passions lie in two places, making information accessible and approachable to everyone, and building healthy, resilient communities that will endure the test of time. Over the past fifteen years he has designed award winning corporate reports, presentations, and marketing campaigns for companies such as Target, Home Depot, and Apple.
After starting a family Marshall started to think deeply about the kind of place that he wanted to leave for his kids. He began to try and understand why it was that so many communities struggled to provide basic services – oftentimes to a citizenry that was prospering and growing. Asking that question led him to the inescapable truth that if we want the places in which we live, work and build our families we have to rethink the entirety of the standard American development pattern.
Marshall also understands that no community can be successful at improving itself without the buy-in and understanding of the people who reside there. At Verdunity, he is laser focused on communicating the work we do in an understandable and approachable way to every member of our partner cities and towns.
Just Because…
What do you do outside of work? I spend most of my free time with my family, we love playing board games – Ticket to Ride and Codenames are two top contenders. I enjoy photography as a hobby and especially love portraiture.
Favorite podcasts? The Daily, Fresh Air, This American Life
Music you put on while you’re working? Run the Jewels, Les Gordon, Pinback, Sylvan Esso, Talking Heads
One book (or more, if you must) you'd recommend that you've read in the last 2 years? My non-fiction pick would be Robert Caro’s biography of LBJ. Fiction; I have a much harder time picking just one, I think Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro was fantastic, and for a quick read, The Midnight Library by Matt Haig was pretty fantastic. I’ll make one professionally-related recommendation, which is for Brian O’Looney’s Increments of the Neighborhood. This is one of the most comprehensive catalogs of the various scales and types of buildings you find in cities and towns across America.
Favorite childhood breakfast cereal? Quaker Oatmeal Squares!
Learn More
Head on over to the Go Cultivate! podcast and tune in to Marshall’s episode of our ongoing “Meet the Verdooners” mini-series!