If you were one of the millions of designers out there with a go-for-it attitude, a creative outlook and some serious time on your hands, you might have gotten fired up when The Kimball Art Center announced it’s plans for expanding. I sure did. After all, the Kimball sits at the center of historic Park City on an underdeveloped lot that’s crying out for something great to come along and transform the City.

And you might have been just as dismayed as I was to find out that only five concepts would be considered in the invitation-only ‘competition’.

To be fair, there are good reasons for this kind of approach, and the people in charge did an outstanding job of pulling the whole thing off. But do big names guarantee the best design in an era when, with a single keystroke, you can tap into the unplumbed depths of a world-wide pool of creativity and talent for free?

Yes, I am getting a little carried away here, and I’d gladly admit to being a bad sport who doesn’t like losing…except I didn’t lose, because, along with every other juiced up, unknown designer on the planet, I was never in the running.

However, I didn’t let a little thing like not being invited, keep me from running alongside the limo.

On my own dime, and in my own time, I too came up with a design for the new Kimball Art Center. All it cost me was four weeks, $1,000, and a broken heart, because, as usual, I fell in love with my own design.

You can see it at :

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