Tree People: Master Plan and Design

The Hettema Group helps LA go green!

The piece of land is prime. The intersection of Mullholland Drive at Coldwater Canyon where the views stretch for miles across the San Fernando Valley. These four acres form the core of a boutique-sized project with global-sized ambitions. TreePeople is fighting Global Warming--one tree at a time.  read more »
Exhibit Design: America I AM

Countdown to Change
 
Kicking off a momentous week in American political life, the world premiere opening of the “America I AM” exhibit presented by Tavis Smiley at Philadelphia’s National Constitution Center caps a multi-month effort by organizers Arts and Exhibitions International and Cincinnati Museum Center, with design team The Hettema Group, and exhibit producer Nancy Seruto of Seruto & Company --all working with one goal in mind.  read more »
Burning Man 2008

George Wiktor, THG’s senior producer, reports on what he learned from his recent visit to Burning Man: 

The bright glowing circle of fire spins in the darkness drawing me through the desert.   Nearing, I see a gathering of people watching, embers washing over them.  They stare into the circle of fire and sway to the rhythms of the nearby Art Car.  In the inferno, logs tumble through the Firewheel.  People dressed in orange coveralls tend the fire and spin the wheel.   It’s here that I finally make my connection with The Man.

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Phil Hettema Addresses the Kellogg Innovation Network Summer 2008 Dialogue

"Innovation in Experiential Entertainment is the intersection of  the big breakthrough idea, the adaptable, available technology and a very intense construction schedule with a precisely defined Opening Date, "   read more »