John Bielenberg's Project M Returns to Its Roots

For the last few years, we’ve always been impressed by the young designers who reply “Project M” when asked what they did on their summer vacations. The small groups of designers picked for Project M have created a book at a Maine farmhouse, traveled to a protected forest in Costa Rica, drove an ambulance full of design supplies to New Orleans and started a foundation for a depressed area of East Baltimore.

This year, says founder John Bielenberg, they’re heading back to where Project M began: The Rural