I help business leaders seize opportunities and grow efficiently. Founder, CEO, Creative Director. Call me what you like. I’m the primary creative force here at Hornsby Creative. As the leader of our team of creatives who make projects happen, chances are you’ll be working with me as we collaborate to discover, design, and deliver your next branded experience. According to the Gallup Strengths Finders methodology, my top 5 core strengths are Connectedness, Input, Ideation, Strategic, and Achiever. Let’s chat about how I can apply these strengths to help focus and grow your business. Together we'll build a more positive and profitable influence for your business.
Resilience, Regeneration, and Imagination — This Week’s Roundup
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Published on October 1, 2025
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🌎 National & Global
Students Reinventing Cities: 11 winning teams, 11 cities
C40 highlights student-led solutions spanning Amman to Milan—real ideas for decarbonized, equitable urban futures.
Why it matters: Proof that next-gen leaders are designing adaptable, system-level interventions cities can pilot now.
👉 Read More: C40
🛜 Online – Events / Podcasts / Webinars
NC BREATHE 2025 (CleanAIRE NC) — Charlotte, Oct 8–9
Community health, climate resilience, and just solutions—statewide coalition building.
👉 Details: CleanAIRE NC
Healthy City Design 2025 — Salford (UK), Oct 14–15
Global urban health + design congress bridging research and practice.
👉 Info: Champs Public Health
🌌 Cosmic & Possible
Tomás Saraceno’s Cloud Cities & Aerocene
The artist’s floating, solar-powered sculptures imagine communities drifting in the atmosphere — architectures unmoored from land and fossil fuels.
Why it matters: It’s not about building blimps tomorrow. It’s about daring to design systems where gravity, energy, and belonging are renegotiated. A poetic nudge to think beyond inherited limits.
👉 Read More: Wikipedia
🔍 Featured Intersection
- Design for renewal scales from parks and housing to university campuses and national conferences. The throughline: invest in places and systems that give back.
- Policy + practice pair well: state grants and mitigation programs create the conditions for designers and community orgs to deliver.
- Cosmic metaphor: Cloud Cities remind us that imagination itself is infrastructure—what we dare to design shapes what we build.
💭 Closing Spark
“Hatred never ends by hatred, but by love alone is healed.”
— Jack Kornfield, Tipping the Scales to Compassion (March 6, 2025)
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By the way I’m John.
Designing brands that actually mean something. Founder at Hornsby Creative Group. We lead with strategy, build with clarity, and partner with mission-driven teams ready to grow on purpose.
🎧 P.S. Soundtrack to the Build
Our October playlist “Chilling in the Candy Corn Maze” is out now. Our current soundtrack radiating creative momentum.
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John Hornsby
I help business leaders seize opportunities and grow efficiently. Founder, CEO, Creative Director. Call me what you like. I’m the primary creative force here at Hornsby Creative. As the leader of our team of creatives who make projects happen, chances are you’ll be working with me as we collaborate to discover, design, and deliver your next branded experience. According to the Gallup Strengths Finders methodology, my top 5 core strengths are Connectedness, Input, Ideation, Strategic, and Achiever. Let’s chat about how I can apply these strengths to help focus and grow your business. Together we'll build a more positive and profitable influence for your business.
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