Doug Herst
Imagine a green West Berkeley community with space for living, artist studios, manufacturing, startup businesses, a public garden, gym, and artisan foods. This is Doug Herst’s vision, and a project he is deeply involved in creating. “One of my values,” he says, “is taking good things, such as the many wonderful things Berkeley has to offer, and designing a way to bring them together to make them great.”
Herst takes design seriously — he is a pioneer of indirect lighting systems for schools and offices, and holder of more than 20 utility patents and fifty design patents in the U.S....