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Five finalists for the People’s Flag of Milwaukee Design Initiative were unveiled by Mayor Tom Barrett and Common Council President Ashanti Hamilton at Milwaukee’s City Hall on May 14. Four hundred visitor attended the single-day exhibition, which began a public voting processes to ultimately determine the winning flag design. “Greater Together launched right here. It is an effort to try and overcome a lot of the challenges this community has faced in our past, to make sure those issues remain a part of the past,” said Mayor Tom Barrett in the City Hall rotunda. “And so we are looking...

Dream it. Build it. Take it home. That is the message from the Kohl’s Design It! Lab at Discovery World. The program has been wildly popular at the science and technology museum along the Milwaukee Lakefront, but lacked connecting with a key demographic until now. “Coming out of 2014 there was a lot of feedback from visitors that the space was not diversified for a particular age group. Unfortunately we could not allow the under five year olds to come into the lab because we had nothing for them to do,” said Justin Doll, Design Strategist & Director. “So...