REFINERY MEDIA · WORKING MATERIAL · JULY 2026

Boulder Ventures
working room.

A clickable index of the thinking, design directions, copy systems and experiments in progress. Start with Direction Room V2; everything else is supporting evidence or sawdust.

The current story.

These are the most useful pieces for understanding where the project is now. They are ordered, not equally weighted.

CURRENT · PRESENTATION

Direction Room V2

Competitive evidence, Patagonia argument, recommended creative direction, current page designs and decision points.

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PREVIOUS ITERATION

Direction Room V1

The first interactive direction, website assembly and design system.

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CURRENT · DESIGN

Homepage direction

Kanayo’s expressive long-form homepage exploration.

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POSITIONING

Positioning room

Working strategic choices and positioning territories.

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COMPETITIVE

Voice audit

How Boulder Ventures compares with the language used across the category.

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COMPETITIVE · VISUAL EVIDENCE

Regional landscape

The complete browsable swipefile behind the “swap the logos” observation—regional firms, visual patterns and category conventions.

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COPY TOOL

Homepage copy room

Multiple copy variations against a consistent homepage structure.

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Ways into the archive.

Experiments for making thirty-one years of writing feel like an owned body of thought rather than a blog feed.

RECOMMENDED STUDY

Guided Ascent

The most developed 3D terrain interpretation of the Perspectives archive.

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3D DEVELOPMENT BUILD

Terrain V5

The latest technical terrain build and interaction study.

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EDITORIAL SYSTEM

The Almanac

Named laws, people, phrases and lessons distilled into a compact object.

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LANGUAGE SYSTEM

The Field Guide

A working lexicon of Boulder Ventures’ own words and recurring concepts.

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CONTENT SYSTEM

Story database

Stories tagged and organized for future site copy, publishing and distribution.

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CURATION

Perspectives: best of

Highlights and source-worthy passages from the complete essay archive.

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REMIX

The Merc List

A portfolio-language experiment built around two-word understanding.

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REMIX

Good VC / Bad VC

A visual treatment of one of the archive’s clearest proprietary frameworks.

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EASTER EGG

How to ski Vail

A small example of how an essay can become a useful, shareable designed object.

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The material behind it.

Useful if you want to inspect the reasoning or trace an idea. This is background—not a recommended client walkthrough.

PUBLIC ARCHIVE

Complete website content

Collected Boulder Ventures site and essay material.

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PUBLIC ARCHIVE

Perspectives corpus

The full essay collection used for editorial analysis.

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PRIMARY SOURCE

30th anniversary

A foundational source for history, voice and performance context.

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PRIMARY SOURCE

Progression

Most recent quarterly-report source currently in the folder.

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PRIMARY SOURCE

Play Your Own Game

A useful expression of the firm’s independence and philosophy.

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DESIGN REFERENCE

Restrained homepage

The quieter calibration alternative to the expressive direction.

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This is a working room, not a finished brand book.CURRENTSUPPORTINGEXPERIMENT indicate how to read the material. Private calls and raw transcripts are intentionally excluded.