Huber Creative: Behind the Name

by Hannah

While I was growing up, starting a business was never my career goal.  I always planned on becoming an elementary school classroom teacher.  But as I look back I can see that the seeds for starting a creative business were always there.  And I think a lot of that stems from the fact that my parents are really creative people and allowed my five siblings and me the freedom to, as Ms. Frizzle would put it, “Take chances, make mistakes, and get messy!”

My dad is an electrical & software engineer who is always working on a project.  Machinery is his chosen artistic medium.  From go-carts to electric piano keyboards to computers that most would dismiss as ancient, he loves building and fixing things and making things more useful than they started out.  Thrift stores are beautiful places full of potential projects to my dad, and my mom always fears he’ll come home with more than he donates if she sends him to the D.I.  His logical, analytical way of thinking has often been the cause of humorous family experiences, but it’s the unique way his brain is wired that makes him so good at solving problems and finding creative ways to make things work.

My mom was a first grade teacher before becoming a full-time mother.  She has truly mastered the art of teaching, and continues to put the same kind of creative energy and thoughtfulness into visual aides, learning activities, and object lessons whether she’s teaching children a new Primary song at church, or helping Cub Scouts earn arrow points, or volunteering in a child’s classroom.  She is also loves to sew and is often working on a sewing project for a family member or friend.  And it’s her openness to learning and exploration that has allowed each member of our family to follow their own creative pursuits–after all, not every wife and mother would allow their husband to keep a mini museum of 1980’s computer monitors, or their son to turn his bedroom into a bike repair shop.

I grew up in the kind of home where it was okay to paint pumpkins for the Pumpkin Walk in the family room (just lay down a tarp first) and it was okay to build a treehouse in the backyard cherry tree.  I was a Huber, and I still am.

The word “über” comes from a German word meaning over and beyond.  Since Huber is a German name spelled just one letter different, it felt extremely fitting to name this company “Huber Creative,” as a play on words and tribute to the over and beyond, uniquely creative environment I feel lucky enough to have been raised in.