PLACEHOLDER: the choice that had to be made
- Chose
- What was chosen
- Because
- The reasoning
- Cost
- What the choice gave up. Required. The build fails if this is empty
Cleanup Collective
A rentable litter cart, built in a hackathon, run for two years, then deliberately sunset.
- Client
- Own venture
- Year
- 2023
- Role
- Founder and creative director
- Outcome
- 000 Placeholder
- Scope owned and directed
- Founded and directed the venture. Product design, identity, pitch, and two years of program delivery with the Cincinnati Parks Foundation across 24 committed events.
Brief
PLACEHOLDER. 60 to 90 words describing what the client came with, the actual problem, in their words. Lucas is supplying this copy.
Constraints
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- Budget, tooling, MOQ, materials, timeline or regulatory constraint
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- A second real constraint
Process
Activities and deliverables
| Activities | Deliverables |
|---|---|
| City of Cincinnati Litter Hack-a-Thon, where the idea started | Rentable litter cart |
| $30,000 grant; Flywheel Sustainable Cincy accelerator | Identity |
| 1st place, StartupCincy Green Room pitch | Pitch deck |
| Two-year Parks Foundation partnership, 24 park cleanups | Event program |
| Deliberate sunset | Two-year photography record |
Collaborators
| Name | Discipline | Contribution |
|---|---|---|
| TK | Design | TK |
| TK | Engineering | TK |
Process
Placeholder body. Process artifacts, rejected directions and long-form
narrative live here using CalloutFigure and image components.
Where the practices met
PLACEHOLDER. The handoff points where one practice constrained another. This is the block that proves integration rather than asserting it.
Decisions
PLACEHOLDER: a second real fork
- Chose
- What was chosen
- Because
- The reasoning
- Cost
- What it cost
Outcome
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- 000
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Retrospect
PLACEHOLDER. 40 to 60 words on what you would do differently.