Win this Gelatobaby poster (and send Sandy relief)!

Posted on November 5, 2012 by Alissa

This week I’m headed to Denver to speak at an AIGA Colorado event at the Denver Art Museum. In honor of Election Day (which is TOMORROW, but I didn’t need to tell you that), I’ll be speaking about design and civic engagement, and talking about projects like GOOD Ideas for Cities and Street Journalism that can get us away from our desks and out serving our communities. The event is Thursday, November 8 at 7:00 p.m. and you can buy your tickets right here.

In honor of the occasion, AIGA Colorado made this beautiful poster that I think truly epitomizes the ever-evolving Gelatobaby brand (click the image to see it even larger). The poster was designed by Shane Kendrick of E and F Design and printed by Sprint Denver on paper graciously donated by French Paper. It would look great posted at all major gelato-crossing intersections in your home or office.

If you come to the event, you’ll have a chance to win one (hint, hint!) but if you can’t come to the event, I’m giving away one signed poster to one lucky winner. Simply leave a comment here responding to the question below. I’ll pick my favorite response by Thursday afternoon and I’ll drop your poster in the mail by Friday (of course, if you win, and you’re at the event, you can take it home with you).

Denver is an incredible city for walking, so in honor of this pedestrian-friendly place—and so you can help me with part of my presentation—I want to know: What’s your favorite place to walk in your city? Leave a comment below with your thoughts to be entered to win. And be sure to tell me the city as well.

And while we’re speaking of cities and walking, some of the greatest places in the world for walking are in desperate need of our help this week. For every comment posted, I’ll donate $10 to Sandy relief efforts via this awesome wish list program on Amazon that delivers products directly to Staten Island. (Staten Island, as I mentioned last week, was one of my favorite places to walk while researching my architectural tour guidebook to New York City.)

Thank you, and hope to see you in Denver!

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  • http://twitter.com/bobulate Liz Danzico

    Court Street in Brooklyn. Always surprising how neighborly this Brooklyn street is in the middle of an 8M-person city. A Sesame Street.

  • http://www.facebook.com/douglaswolk Douglas Wolk

    The Vera Katz Eastbank Esplanade in Portland, Oregon, is always a joy to walk (or bike!) along.

  • Sheena Medina

    I’m lucky enough to live in Brooklyn, so I’ve walked to many places in this borough and the next. It may sound cliche, but I would say my favorite place to walk, hands down, is Brooklyn bridge. Each direction has its own appeal. I’ve walked from my old office building into Brooklyn along the bridge and love the feeling of getting closer to home and the ability to stop at Grimaldi’s pizza along the way! I also love walking into Manhattan with its beautiful city skyline in the foreground. And the bridge at night is sooo beautiful. It must be one of the best places to walk in the country. Thanks so much for running this contest Alissa. This is awesome!

  • http://andreafineman.com/ Andrea

    Huron Village in Cambridge, MA

  • Gill Haggis

    My husband and I love to walk in the Walter Sisulu Botanical Gardens in Roodepoort, South Africa – http://www.sanbi.org/gardens/walter-sisulu. We have a season ticket to this exquisite place and are allowed access before the gates open at 8.30am. We walk at 6 when the world is just-woken-up-fresh and filled with birdsong. It is a privilege and a gift to have the Gardens virtually to ourselves and to live out the truth of John Muir’s words…’Everyone needs beauty as well as bread. Places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul alike.’

  • Bobby Genalo

    Waverly Avenue in Clinton Hill and it’s bouquet of carriage houses.

  • http://twitter.com/tweeterjoes joe j

    there’s a beautiful foothill trail by our house in provo utah that i run and walk with my dog most mornings, tis real nice.

  • http://twitter.com/Christian_Hurst Christian Hurst

    Living in midtown Baltimore is a walker’s dream. My wife and I can walk to just about everything. Our current favorite, and most frequented, walking spot is the Charles Street corridor in Mt. Vernon. It is great (the evidence: http://url.ie/g7pr, http://www.walkscore.com/MD/Baltimore/Mount_Vernon ). Close second… well there are so many great places to walk… Have to say the Jones Falls Trail from the lightrail to the zoo through Druid Hill Park. Stunning (evidence attached).

  • Anne Fousse

    I live in London (NW3) and love walking through Primrose Hill with its fabulous view of the entire London skyline, and on to the perimeter of Regent’s Park. I adore the Regency architecture and it’s a real treat to walk by and say hello to the giraffes in the zoo!

  • http://twitter.com/pazzobooks Tom Nealon

    The Arnold Arboretum in Boston!

  • http://twitter.com/kidchamp lauren

    central park, of course; bethesda mall with those mighty american elms flinging their arms up all around me always makes me catch my breath. walking through the park this past week and seeing those old gentlemen limbless and battered breaks my heart, but i still feel lucky to be there.

  • jill aiko yee

    Hi, my fave LA place to walk is hancock park. Its usually empty of cars, has the most green, and is lined with dream houses harkening back to old hollywood glamour. Its where the duke and dutchess came to stay on their honeymoon, and where the mayor lives. Beautiful landscaping and you nearly forget youre in the middle of the city.

  • Sara P

    Los Rios street in San Juan Capistrano, California. With the whir of the train offset by historic bungalows and lots of greenery, it’s the perfect place for a midday escape from the office.

  • http://twitter.com/kmlcortes Katherine Cortes

    In Seattle, our waterfront is imperfect but likely to improve with the new deep-bore tunnel. There are lots of fun things to walk by through the neighborhoods north of the ship canal: the University District, Wallingford, Fremont, and Ballard. You can loop back by the Burke-Gilman trail, though I prefer biking for that.

  • criswell

    Prospect park in Brooklyn

  • http://twitter.com/writesinLA Danielle Davis

    The meadow, “a quiet place,” in Silver Lake, Los Angeles as well as Sunset Blvd, a louder place.

  • Volker Durre

    My favorite spot is Vicente Bluffs Reserve in Palos Verdes, or as I like to call it “end of Hawthorne.” There is a Starbucks nearby that has an amazing ocean view, too.

  • Silverlakeloka

    I’m a fellow Silverlaker, on the eastern end, and two of my favorite places to walk to are Mornings/Nights coffee shop in the sunset triangle, where it’s always a good time to post up at a table with a good book and say hi to the friends I inevitably see there, or to Cusclateca bakery at Sunset and Coronado, a little Salvadorean spot that’s a favorite of the latino old timers and newbie hipsters as well. It’s great cultural intersection, they never mind me lingering, and the food is delicious. How lucky we are to live in the neighborhood we do!

  • Kate Hahn

    Thanks for helping with Sandy relief efforts, Alissa! I love walking along the bluffs in Santa Monica, CA and looking out at the ever-changing Pacific Ocean.

  • terrellm

    I’m in Seattle and my favorite place to walk is Discovery Park, but I also love walking around Greenlake for great dog watching and Ballard because there are so many great shops and bars to visit.

  • Jane Dorn

    Toward home.

  • Jacklynn

    Look forward to seeing your talk tonight! It’s awesome that you’re also doing this.

  • http://twitter.com/pmocwriter Patrick M. O’Connell

    We just moved back to Chicagoland, and my new job is across from a forest preserve http://www.bussewoods.net/. At lunch, I head over there to reset and get exercise. I enjoy the calm of the woods, but also enjoy that you’re still connected to the bustle of the surroundings — busy suburban street traffic and planes landing or taking off (depending on the wind patterns) from/to O’Hare directly above. It’s been great, too, to enjoy the seasonal changes of the trees as they moved from the vibrant reds, yellows and oranges to the brown and bare of November. In the St. Louis area, where we moved from, I enjoyed walks through our neighborhood, with my son in his stroller, to the downtown of Maplewood http://www.cityofmaplewood.com/ to mail letters (what? still using the postal service, yes) just to have a destination, the parks for playtime or the rec center for programs.

  • http://twitter.com/NetWalkers90210 Ellen Lutwak

    It’s my secret – and close friends tell me I shouldn’t go there because it’s dangerous – but my favorite local place to walk is through the alleys of Beverly Hills. I squint my eyes – and hold my nose because that’s where the trash cans are – and pretend I am walking down quiet country lanes under an umbrella of untrimmed trees. (You never know what discarded treasures there may be as well, but don’t tell.)

  • Cameron

    Near my house, there’s a small section of a dirt path that runs along the Cherry Creek Trail in Denver. It’s down a hill from the concrete bike path, flanked by trees and tall bushes, and it’s close to the creek, so it feels secluded. I’ll walk with my dog along the creek path, and I’m instantly transported to another time…like I’m back home in NC, exploring the forests of my childhood. Love it.

  • Karen Schuster

    I follow a dirt path up the mountain and pass between the green lichen covered rocks. As I drop over to the other side of the Flat Irons the din of the traffic fads and the rat-tat-tat of the Downy Woodpecker draws my attention. She is feasting on juicy bugs and does not notice the click of my camera. I continue walking to lookout point where I see the fresh snow on the distant mountains. I live here. This thought warms my heart and makes me smile.

  • Alissa

    THANK YOU! We donated $330 to Sandy relief! And congrats to @fastcompany-219850:disqus who won the poster! http://www.gelatobaby.com/2012/11/08/were-sending-330-to-sandy-relief/