Steve Kohtz

Steve Kohtz is a Grad Assistant at Iowa State University School of Design with Sustainability/Green Umbrella, where they bring together different student sustainability organizations to make Iowa State students more aware of sustainable efforts around them. There, Steve is mentoring two branches of student organizations: Live Green! event planning and the monthly digital newsletter.

Iowa State University

West Des Moines, Iowa

Mindy Alvarez

Mindy Alvarez is currently a multi-media designer at RDG Planning & Design.

Before joining RDG Planning & Design she owned and ran M-Design, a full service marketing, social media and design agency for 12 years. Mindy Alvarez has previously held positions as designer, art director and account management with Lessing-Flynn Advertising, Sammons Securities and the Des Moines Register.

Mindy Alvarez has won numerous awards for her work including 3 gold's and a Best in Show and has earned a B.A Graphic Design degree and MBA degree.

RDG Planning & Design

Des Moines, Iowa

Creative Edge

Located in Fairfield, Iowa, Creative Edge Master Shop is the world’s largest, most experienced, and most creative architectural waterjet flooring fabricator.

Creative Edge designs and fabricates a variety of architectural and industrial products using computer-controlled waterjet technology

University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Stead Family Children's Hospital

Finalist 2018

The design team provided interior design services for the new 14-story, 507,000 sq. ft University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Stead Family Children's Hospital, as well as the renovation of an existing NICU connected to the new building. The hospital houses 189 acute critical care beds, including a PCICU, a PICU, a new 56,250-square-foot NICU, imaging, dialysis, infusion and a pediatric cancer center.

Creative Edge Licenses Wright Designs

Creative Edge Master Shop Enters Licensing Agreement with Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation

Creative Edge Master Shop (Fairfield, Iowa) has entered into a licensing agreement with the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation allowing it to interpret Wright's distinctive designs in stone, terrazzo and metal materials for residential and commercial hard-surface flooring.

David Berg

David Berg is an entrepreneur with over 30 years of direct business ownership experience across many sectors including new business model development and deployment, restructuring, CEO’ing, sales, marketing, design, structural engineering, contract negotiations, risk management, and employee and team building.

Fairfield, IA

First National Bank, Metro Crossing Branch

Merit Award

The Metro Crossing branch of the First National Bank in Council Bluffs, Iowa, is located directly off an interstate and nestled between river casinos and strip malls. With its architecture and environmental graphics that embrace Iowa’s natural prairie history, RDG Planning & Design sought to strike a balance with the surrounding commercial area.

RDG Planning & Design