Adam Chew

It was my pleasure to design a logo and website for OtherWords. Distributing commentary and cartoons aimed at amplifying progressive analysis in the national conversation, OtherWords empowers readers to become more engaged citizens.

The publication-ready columns, op-eds, and cartoons on the website are available free of charge, as long as the author(s) and OtherWords are cited as the source for this work.

About 1,700 newspaper editors subscribe to their weekly editorial package that consists of three columns, four op-eds, and one cartoon. Most of their subscribers are small dailies and weeklies in America’s heartland. Formerly known as Minuteman Media, OtherWords became part of the Institute for Policy Studies in 2010.

“The Global League of Community Sustainers (“La Liga Global”) is a transnational network of migrants, remitters, their organizations and their allies, committed to using our collective voice and our economic power to build a better world for all where migration is a choice and not a necessity for economic survival.”

Please visit the website I designed for La Liga Global.

“Face to Face: Children of the AIDS Crisis in Africa offers a moving portrayal of life in Africa in the shadow of HIV/AIDS. It combines photography and narrative to capture the hopes and joys, struggles and sorrows of orphaned children left to survive on their own, often caring for younger siblings. It pays homage to the care-giving grannies, the little-known heroes of Africa, who have kept families together as traditional social networks collapse. It also presents some of the special challenges faced by children who are living with HIV. Finally, the book profiles some of the activists — the energetic people working at the grassroots level to help restore the well-being of thousands of children and families affected by the epidemic.”

Visit the website I designed for Face to Face: Children of the AIDS Crisis in Africa.

“Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Green Source Consulting specializes in helping nonprofit organizations and their public partners secure the foundation and government funding needed to build sustainable communities, safeguard the environment, enhance public lands, and help youth reach their full potential.” Visit the website I designed for Green Source Consulting.

This is my latest logo design along with a new web design for The Food Pantry.

The Food Pantry’s mission is to increase access to food for hungry people. They provide food directly to the hungry through food pantries. They also provide funding to new and existing food pantries in the San Francisco Bay area.

From one of my latest website designs, AndePhotos.com:

Karen Ande has been chronicling the AIDS epidemic and its effects on children in sub-Saharan Africa since 2002. Her work has taken her from rural villages to city slums in Kenya and Rwanda, where she photographs people who daily face the challenges of AIDS and its impact on those they know and love.

She works with the very poor, with people who rarely benefit from large-scale government intervention, but are helped enormously by organizations like Firelight Foundation and G.R.A.C.E. USA that support the work of grassroots community activists.

Not content to remain an observer, Karen has raised approximately $60,000 in donations for several of the projects you will find in the web pages that I designed for Karen. Thanks to Karen’s partner Jeff Johnson for the coding on her web site. In addition she and her work have been featured in newspapers and magazines, as well as in a 2005 ABC television special about AIDS in Africa on the program “Beyond the Headlines.”

“Separation of Oil & State is a campaign to get oil money out of politics. Its important that we demand that our representatives stand up for the future of energy, not for the dinosaurs of the oil industry.”

Along with the post card for No War No Warming, I redesigned the Separate Oil and State (SOS) logo.

See more examples of the logos I have designed.

“The Iraq War and Global Warming have one clear thing in common: Oil. BIG OIL.

Burning oil and gas is responsible for more than a third of global greenhouse gas emissions; the military is the largest single consumer of petroleum in the USA – which is, in turn, the largest consumer of petroleum in the world.

The oil industry has systematically funded efforts to discredit legitimate climate science and obstruct international negotiations for more than a decade.”

“Even if you live far away from a rainforest, you are still more dependent on that rainforest than you might think. Take a walk around your house and you’ll probably find many household items that are products of the rainforest. Look in your fridge and you might find bananas, mangoes, avocadoes, Brazil nuts, or spices like vanilla and cinnamon. These all come from the rainforests. Some of the medicines we use when we are sick and some fuel for cars can come from the rainforests.”

I had the pleasure last year of working with the illustrations of Vanessa Waring. Along with her writing and that of Levana Saxon of Rainforest Action Network (RAN), we designed a Kids Action Toolkit for RAN’s education outreach program. For more information please visit www.rainforestheroes.com.

It was not that long ago that children everywhere started their morning with an energizing walk to school. Today, only one in ten children have such a good start to their day. Driven to school in cars, many children’s first part of the day is gridlock traffic and a parent’s rush-hour stress, only to be dropped off in a sea of idling cars.

Safe Routes to Schools (SR2S) Alameda County provides trainings, resources, and customized support at no cost; while working together with schools, parents, and the local community to give kids an active, healthy start to the school day.

SR2S is an effort coordinated by the Transportation and Land Use Coalition (TALC). TALC hired me to design the SR2S logo and printed materials.

I designed this postcard and logo to help End Oil Aid and get the word out at the recent US Social Forum in Atlanta.

Every year, billions of taxpayer dollars are given away to oil companies to subsidize their operations overseas. We need to fight our oil addiction and invest public dollars in new renewable energy resources. This is better for us, our planet, and it will help developing countries grow to meet their energy needs while contributing to fight against global warming.

End Oil Aid and promote a just transition away from oil dependence.

I recently designed and animated this Flash animation for the EU Civil Society Contact Group (EUCSCG). This project was a joint effort with a colleague of mine in Italy, Gillo Cutrupi.

The EUCSCG brings together eight large rights and value based NGO sectors – culture, environment, education, development, human rights, public health, social and women. The ETUC, representing European union workers is an observer to the group.

The members of these sectoral platforms are European NGO networks. View the animation here or visit their website to learn more about EUCSCG.

Jubilee USA Network is an alliance of more than 80 religious denominations and faith communities, human rights, environmental, labor, and community groups working for the definitive cancellation of crushing debts to fight poverty and injustice in Asia, Africa, and Latin America.

For the past three months I have been spending much of my time planning, designing, and sweating pixels in the construction of this new web site for Jubilee USA. I have to say that it was a pleasure working with Jubilee’s Monét Cooper in planning this space for her team’s content. I could not have delivered powerful back-end tools such as the events calendar and Jubilee groups map, to name a few, without the expert help of my partner and blood, Andrew Chew. Andrew and I integrated the content management system Typo3 to give the staff at Jubilee and the various coalition chapters the ability to edit their own site. Special thanks also to Gillo Cultrupi for consultation on the site architecture.

Explore their site, get educated, and take action today!

I designed this postcard for the Environmental Protection Agency to help promote their Lifecycle Building program.

Lifecycle building is the design of building materials, components, information systems and management practices that anticipate future use. Lifecycle design facilitates a building’s eventual disassembly or adaptation (instead of demolition) for maximum materials recovery.

The U.S. EPA and its partners are seeking lifecycle designs from professionals and students in the following categories:

• Project – an entire building
• Component – single building assembly or connector
• Service – a tool, system, practice or method

For more information:
lifecyclebuilding.org

Logo design is one of my favorite things to do. So, when Rainforest Action Network and their coalition partners asked me to design a logo and post card, I jumped at the opportunity.

The post card and logo design were for the official kick-off of Plug-In Bay Area, the new “drive” to bring 100+ mpg vehicles to the San Francisco Bay Area.

Yes, that’s right – I’m no Prophet. That’s why I offer web design by a non-Prophet for non-profit organizations.

You don’t get any Prophesies from me (although I might perform a Miracle or two), but you do get the reduced rate you can afford and the professional expertise you should expect.

Please ask me about my non-profit web design and graphic design rates.

For Prophesies, please read this.