Safe routes to schools

| Adam Chew

sr2sIt 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.

End Oil Aid

| Adam Chew

End Oil Aid postcardI 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.

Flash movie for European NGO viral email campaign

| Adam Chew

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.

Nonprofit Web Design for Jubilee USA

| Adam Chew

Jubilee USAJubilee 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!

Lifecycle Building

| Adam Chew

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