For immediate release: April 5, 2006

Design Workshop's Phoenix office hires planner and graphic designer

PHOENIX, ARIZ. — Design Workshop’s Phoenix office is pleased to announce the hiring of landscape architect and environmental planner Juan A. Brenes-Garcia, who brings a wealth of experience and expertise to his new position, and graphic designer Judy Van Camp.

Garcia earned three degrees from Arizona State University, including bachelor’s degrees in both urban planning and landscape architecture and a master’s degree in environmental planning. He has worked for firms in San Fernando, Spain, and Munich, Germany, and for the Arizona Community Foundation, the City of Scottsdale Preservation Office, Arizona State University and Jones & Stokes environmental consultants in Phoenxi. Most recently, Garcia served as an environmental and land-use planner, landscape designer, urban designer and GIS analyst for HDR Inc. in Phoenix. His first day at Design Workshop was March 6.

Van Camp, who will receive a degree in graphic design from Arizona State University in May, has been working with the Phoenix office since last spring as a long-term graphic design intern. Her first day working as a full-time graphic designer for Design Workshop will be May 22.

Founded in 1969, Design Workshop practices sustainable design and planning on sites ranging from urban infill, parks and open-space projects to brownfield redevelopment and resorts. The firm, which has been honored with more than 120 awards for design and planning, has offices in Aspen, Denver, Santa Fe, Phoenix, Salt Lake City, South Lake Tahoe and Asheville, N.C.