Steele Bellows Petit Design Consulting

sbp is focused on producing tools to make learning the language of design accessible to everyone. its beginnings lay in the simple fact that having served on both sides of the dais-as architects and on various governmental bodies - it had became clear to founding partners maureen steele bellows and barry petit that few people in the positions of mayor, city council member, planning commission member and even city planners can interact with architects and developers because they do not speak the same language. thus, their mantra, "you cannot expect to guide design unless you speak the language of design." they have published a book "the language of design . . .because great places are all about design," put together a work shop on the language of design, authored a developer's exam, written various monographs as well as given speeches on various topics such as: what color is your town?, bad planning ruins good design, and the art and science of signage and the power of nothing. they als