CREATIVE DESIGN RESOLUTIONSCreative Design Resolutions, Inc. (CDR) provides context sensitive, aesthetic design consulting services for highway and bridge, MSE and retaining wall, sound barrier, or related transportation enhancement, and urban environment projects, including decorative concrete form liners and integrated infrastructure amenities.As founder and CEO, I have worked in the transportation design and public art industries since 1971, creating CDR in 1998 to focus solely on Aesthetic Master Planning for America's infrastructure. CDR works collaboratively with DOT's, engineers, architects, and developers to create dynamic highway infrastructure that finds its inspiration in the rich history and traditions of a particular community. We are very successful at mediating stalled talks and negotiations between communities, contractors and other entities and constituents involved in the decision making process for deciding on the appropriate aesthetic imagery of a project.CDR also offers aesthetic design services for shovel-ready highway and bridge projects, even when the shovel is already in the ground. Together with its sister company Creative Form Liners, Inc., CDR can aid Departments of Transportation in integrating unique designs into a project's existing specifications, using custom, standard or specialty form liners or color treatments.

Creative Form Liners, Inc. (CFL) provides superior elastomeric rubber and fiberglass form liners to Departments of Transportation, engineering firms, architects, landscape architects, and concrete contractors across the country for their highway, bridge and urban environment projects. CFL brings decorative architectural concrete projects to life with exquisitely custom detailed designs or standard patterns such as Fractured Fin and Ashlar Stone.

Integrated environments that encourage viewer participation and community involvement have always been the focus of my artwork. I started as a graphic artist and painter, but my work quickly expanded to include fine art and large-scale public art. Several decades ago, I started Weitzman Studios, Inc. as the entity to handle my private commissions and site-specific public art installations. Since that time I have created dozens of projects including outdoor urban environments, commemorative and figurative sculptures, as well as major highway installations and bridge designs. In 1998, I founded Creative Design Resolutions, Inc. to address the aesthetic needs of highway infrastructure and urban development projects. Shortly after that, I also established Creative Form Liners, Inc., the leading manufacturer of custom form liners and FŌTERA® color-controlled concrete.

This unique 2,100 square feet terrazzo floor installation for the History Colorado Center's newly constructed home in Denver, CO. This abstract terrazzo "painting", made up of 234 pre-cast full-color FOTERA tiles, when viewed at a distance resolves into an interactive topographical map of Colorado, as seen from 400 miles in space. Radio-Frequency ID tags embedded into the floor allow a myriad of interactivity between the art and the people who travel across it.

This epic mural stretches the length of two football fields and includes FŌTERA™ structural-concrete murals, colored pavers, and specialty text pavers. As visitors walk along this way-finding journey, they will find West End facts, people, events, and places. Some people will spend hours trying to discover all the details; others will gradually discover pieces of the story over time. (in progress)

Local aesthetics representing the Southwest will be integrated into a new bridge and highway walls along this corridor to create a gateway marking the Canyon Del Oro. (in progress)

Senior Project Manager, lead designer, and form liner pattern designer for MSE walls and Pier caps designs representing the Loblolly Pine Tree and Pine cone, which is the state tree of Arkansas.

Senior Project Manager and lead designer for MSE walls and piers featuring abstracted aerial views of the farmland located in Norman. The farmland pattern on the MSE walls frame a relief depicting the Sooners claiming of the land in Oklahoma.

These designs are representative of the local beach environment which is the revenue base of the tourism industry of the city. Seashells and wave patterns decorate the MSE Walls of the US 19 & 60 Interchange.

Bridge designs illustrate Oklahoma’s Cross Timbers ecoregion, which is comprised mostly of prairies, savanna, and light woodland. Aesthetics for this bridge include stylized grasses affecting the wing walls, piers and parapet. The official state bird, the Scissor-tailed Flycatcher, flies above the grass blades represented on the piers and wing walls.

This monumental mural will be installed into a planned water feature located in a newly designed park in the historic H-Street neighborhood of Washington, DC. Epic portraits of Duke Ellington, Bessie Smith, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Rosa Parks, who were instrumental in transforming the political and social fabric of the area, are combined with symbols of the neighborhood.

Based on a photograph of Robert H. Goddard, the bronze figure peers through a “spotting” telescope at the rocket. The door of the launch control shed serves as a metaphoric portal allowing the community to access Goddard’s ambitions for space.

Senior Project Manager and lead designer for bridge design referring to surrounding landscape and history. This bridge references the Native American tribes of Arizona through pattern work as well as the local flora specifically featuring the cactus.

Senior Project Manager and lead designer of three heavily trafficked intersections with flyovers, bridge pier and parapet designs, as well as 215,000 sq ft of MSE retaining walls and a 6,000 foot long double bridge over the Elizabeth River. Designs relate to the following five main themes: Flora, Fauna, Agricultural, River, and the Local Iconography.

Monumental ears of corn decorate the parapets and pier caps while wind and cornfield patterns span the approaches, wing walls and slopewalls. These aesthetics illustrate a Chickasaw and agricultural theme.

I have received extensive coverage in the regional and national press through more than 80 interviews, articles, and reviews. Please contact us for more details.Sep 2010 Roswell Daily Record, “Goddard Statue Dedicated”Jul 2010 Washington Post, “ Bid to give D.C. Luminaries their Due”May 2010 segdDesign, “On the Waterfront”May 2010 Roswell Daily Record, “RMAC unveils Goddard Statue”Oct 2009 The Norman Transcript, "Concrete with Class"Oct 2009 The Norman Transcript, “I-35 Corridor to Tell Norman's Story"Jul 2009 The Norman Transcript, “US 77 Overpass Opens Early"Oct 2008 The Washington Post, "Unveiling a Tall Tribute to a Towering Abolitionist"Jul/Aug 2008 Maryland Life, “Unchained Artistry”May 2008 National Harbor Newsletter, “Art, Geography, or History”Apr 2007 The Washington Post, “Sculptures of Douglass, L'Enfant Near Completion”Jun 2007 ConcreteNetwork.com, “New Colored Concrete Process Produces Stunning Terrazzo Murals"Nov/Dec 2006 PCI Journal, “Sculptured Precast Concrete Soundwalls Beautify Maryland Interstate 216 Baltimore, Maryland"Sep 2005 The Gazette, “District Artist Creates Mural of Famous African American Garrett A. Morgan”Mar 2001 The Daily Record, “Aerial Fish Fly in City”Nov 2000 The Columbus Post, “Elijah Pierce Sculpture Unveiled”Aug 1996 The Wichita Eagle, “It’s About Time”Jun 1990 The Washington Post, "Carving a Menagerie in a Tree"Feb 1989 Concrete Construction Magazine, “Alice in Wonderland Image Hidden in Concrete”

Installed as part of a new development near Washington, D.C., this 1,618 ft.2 hardscape for an outdoor balcony celebrates the region through its depiction of the Chesapeake Bay, portraits of historic figures, as well as nearly 90 other hidden objects. The names of these objects are inscribed on granite benches that line the length of the balcony, allowing people to make a game of discovering the icons.

2008 Rosa Parks, clay2008 Seated Girl, bronze2004 The Winds, wood2003 Stampede, bronze2002 Footprints, concrete2002 Falling Man, bronze2001 Bound Man, bronze and glass2001 Electric Head, glass and light2001 Healing Hands, glass2001 Julio, glass2001 Fetish I, glass and metal2001 Sisters, bronze2001 Portrait in Red, glass2000 Grace, cast stone1999 George Mason, bronze1998 Fish Head, glass1998 Man/Train, bronze1998 Structure in Power, concrete1997 Glezermann Portrait, bronze1997 Hoffman Portrait, bronze1997 Aero, bronze1997 Cavorting Tigers, clay1996 Caballo del Fuego, limestone1996 Justice Listens, bronze1995 Pas de Deux, bronze1995 Thurgood Marshall, bronze1995 Robert McLeod Bust, bronze1994 Woman Consumed, bronze1994 My Mother’s Burden, walnut1994 Leda and the Swan, bronze1994 Lion and Lamb, bronze1994 Stephen Austin, bronze1994 Tonger, bronze1993 Cambodian Deity, gypsum1993 Man Consumed, bronze1992 Golden Corn, walnut teak1992 Sirene, bronze1991 Basenji, oak1990 Eugene Casey, bronze1990 Artist’s world, stainless steel1990 Parthenon, hydrocal1990 Sopiri, bronze1988 Oakview, oak1987 Welcome, gypsum cement1986 Time and Energy, cast stone1985 Arbor Day, white oak1984 Search for Youth, wood1984 Wind, maple1983 Pegasus, walnut1981 Ladies in the Wind, walnut

This bronze sculpture commemorates Frederick Douglass, the captivating politician and abolitionist who is portrayed as an orator, in the middle of giving a speech, and as a writer, with his paper in his hand and his pen at his side.Dedicated in The US Capitol Statuary Hall June 19, 2013.

This life-size bronze bust and breastplate commemorates Dr. Ulysses Grant Bourne, M.D., the first African American physician to work in Frederick County. He was also the founder of the local NAACP Chapter and the Medical Negro Society.

This mural depicts Justice overcoming adversity. It fills an interior wall in Prince George’s County Courthouse, which suffered burn damage from an historic fire. The patined copper frame is made from the original Courthouse roof.

Monumental portraits of Hippocrates of Cos, John Gorrie, and Elizabeth Blackwell honor these predecessors of modern medicine. Text and icons specific to each doctor contribute to the portrayals of Hippocrates the ancient scholar, Gorrie the inventor, and Blackwell the first woman doctor.

Crafted 50 life-size fiberglass Testudos, which were decorated by local artists and then went to auction to raise money for the university in celebration of it's 150th anniversary.

This project consists of 30 colored concrete icons, brick pavers, and mosaics incorporated into two miles of sidewalk, connecting two metro stations. Icons illustrating local historic figures and iconographic symbols of Maryland; brick pavers engraved with poetry, quotations, and factual references; and a mosaic wall bus stop and a mosaic plaza complete the design.

Four larger-than-life steel silhouettes commemorate the industrious Glendale Field Operation Center employees, who are represented in the process of doing their everyday tasks. Fabricated from oxidized cor-ten steel, these cutouts are mounted slightly away from the wall and change color, tone, and hue as weather rusts the steel.

This interactive urban environment is comprised of three main components: 1) a 34-foot clock fountain that refers to future time, 2) a 14-foot bronze Armillary Sphere that alludes to ancient time, and 3) concrete text panels that reflect on the ephemeral nature of time.