Based in Traverse City Michigan and available worldwide – Influence Design Forum (IDF) is a collaboration of professionals exploring the seams that make up the ecological and social context of landscape, art, pop culture, and the built environment. We work at many different spatial scales - We design public spaces, prepare cities for the future, celebrate rural landscapes, inject art into the landscape, design dwellings and insert creativity to retail and storefronts, explore intimate spaces, and imagine new possibilities by testing design ideas. Our unconventional project teams bring our clients together with a diverse group of designers, planners, artists, scientists, engineers, and policy makers to problem solve, innovate, and research new ideas for the future. Part think-tank, part creative agency, we like to think of ourselves as visionaries who think systematically how design works - From the importance of building a strong identity to support a brand to understanding social behaviors of public spaces to the workplace and back home again, transportation, rural landscapes, and entire neighborhoods