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.”

“Consumers Union has worked for over ten years on the Community Health Assets Project, to defend and redirect charitable assets and services for use by communities as nonprofit institutions abandon prior missions and either formally or in effect convert to for-profit status. In so doing, we work to maintain and increase access to vital services, including affordable, quality health care for low- and moderate-income consumers.”

It was my privillege to work with them by designing a web site and CD that functions as an information source on this subject. The materials are broken down into four main sections: Corporate Structures, Nonprofit Health Inc., Conversion 101 and Community Involvement. Each section builds upon the one preceding it, but can also be explored independently.

Please visit their nonprofit conversions web site to learn more.

“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 or learn more about the SOS campaign on the website I designed for Oil Change International.

“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.”

I am proud to have designed this post card for PriceofOil.org and NoWarNoWarming.org.

“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 had the pleasure of working with Ric of Portland, Oregon helping him redesign the website, bookproject.org, and designing some printed materials to help get the work out about this free service they offer. I also got to use some of Nikki McClure’s beautiful artwork in the designs. This is what they have to say:

Read any good books lately?

We mean any books so good that when you finished them and looked up you found that the contents of the world had shifted, uncovering the things that matter: kindness, community, and the environment that sustains us.

If so, we invite you to cultivate change locally and build community by putting those books into person-to-person circulation, starting with a friend or family member.

Our website gives you the tools to do it.

All services free. Volunteer-run. No advertising. Core topics include peace, sustainability, democracy, and the media. Fiction and DVDs also welcome.

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.

Although all of the work you see on this web site has been designed and produced by Adam (that’s me!), I am also part of a larger community of activists, techies, writers, artists and geeks.

Rather than looking at the available work out there as a scarcity and my community – web designers included – as competition, I prefer the mentality of sufficiency and cooperation.

This really does multiply the work available for me to do and the skills that I can bring to peoples’ projects. It’s also more reliable to always have someone to call on, no matter how big the job is, to lend a helping hand.

Some of the designs you see on this web site were collaborative efforts and I will try my best to give credit to the other parties involved so you can be aware of how we each participated in the projects.

The clients are especially a part of this collective team – that’s why I may refer to the work on this web site as “ours”.

The online video game, Salmon Sally’s Upsteam Sprint, was a colaborative project for Rainforest Action Network’s educational outreach program. I oversaw the project and created the graphics while my cousin, Andrew Chew, wrote the Flash ActionScript (game engine code) and Tracy Solum wrote the copy.

Our specialty – designing websites that look great and function smoothly. From rich media sites that offer the visual appeal of Flash animation to content management systems that enable you to easily update your own content, we can build almost any kind of functionality your organization needs to build a strong presence on the world-wide-web. See some examples of our web design here.

I designed and built Oil Change International’s web site to function with the popular blogging software, Wordpress. It is essentially a blog on the home page – the content changes regularly as the Oil Change staff create posts about current oil-related news. I also customized the Wordpress software to function as a content management system (CMS) for the regular pages on the site so that the staff could keep these updated on their own.

Oil Change’s web site is extremely effective with search engine results – in less than a year, it climbed to Google’s first page when searching for “oil change” or “price of oil”!

The unique Price of Oil navigation system I designed and illustrated helps people to understand what effect oil is having on the world.

Thanks go also to Gillo Cutrupi, who helped plan the informational architecture for this site.