Marshall Hines, CNU-A
Creative Director
About Marshall
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.
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Contact
214.430.4450 ext. 205
Congress for the New Urbanism
Accredited
Registrations
Congress for the New Urbanism
National Town Builders Association
American Institute of Graphic Arts
Strong Towns
Professional Affiliations
Input
Learner
Achiever
Self-Assurance
Maximizer
CliftonStrengths
St. Edwards University
Communication Design
Education
Q&A with Marshall
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, In the Dark
Music you put on while you’re working?
Sylvan Esso, Run the Jewels, Les Gordon, Pinback, Talking Heads
One book (or more, if you must) you'd recommend that you've read in the last 2 years?
Oh, I must.
Generally, my non-fiction pick would be Robert Caro’s multi-volume biography of LBJ; The Years of Lyndon Johnson, but I also just read Tim Higginbotham’s Challenger and thought that one was fantastic.
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 also make one professionally-related recommendation, which is 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!