Annual appeal for Scojo Foundation, an organization devoted to provide affordable eyeglasses to tailors, electricians, and goldsmiths around the world who live in poverty and depend on their jobs for livelihood. The appeal highlights the improvements and impact of Scojo Foundation over the past year and is distributed to potential donors, as well as functioning as a marketing brochure.

Scojo Foundation is currently undergoing a name and identity change—UnderConsideration will be in charge of the redesign.

The Alliance for a Healthier Generation is an organization devoted to fighting childhood obesity by endorsing a healthy lifestyle and nutritious diet. They work with corporate, retail and education sectors to better different aspects that influence children; this brochure invites educational institutions to learn more about what they can do in their school districts.

The logo for Quipsologies, our linkfest of creative bits, uses a custom drawn Q that’s as circle-y as a circle can get, accompanied by the geometrically pleasant Gotham. For more on Quipsologies read this entry.

Quipsologies, launched in January of 2007, is bent on keeping the design community aware of as many things as possible through an ever-growing cluster of creativity found on- and off-line. Quipsologies acknowledges that there is strength in numbers and in individual interests… everyone is invited and encouraged to add theirs — Quipsologies was born as a response to the increasing source of creativity found online and the desire to bring the most relevant to our readers.

Quipsologies is designed and programmed for MovableType.

One of the most popular features of Speak Up is Word It, where each month we define a word (say, “Garbage”) and readers submit a 5 x 5 in. square with their visual interpretation. All submissions—unless deemed deeply offensive—have been posted on monthly galleries, updated weekly amassing to thousands of archived squares of creativity.

In 2006, with F+W Publications, the contributions from the first 30 months were edited, with the best selections published in The Word It Book: Speak Up presents a gallery of interpreted words . The collection is presented by word, and some of the Word Its feature brief interviews with their designers, while others go more in-depth to get to the bottom of their ideas.

Each year, Speak Up celebrates its anniversary by putting together Stop Being Sheep. A self-financed, twenty-plus-page, two-color, lovable booklet standing in at 4.5 x 6.5 in.. These publications gather each year’s most thought-provoking, amusing and enthralling commentaries that have been left on Speak Up, and are freely distributed among friends and peers and sold for a modicum price online to recuperate printing
and shipping costs.

Brand New, launched in 2005, is devoted solely to the monitoring, discussion and critique of brand and corporate identity work in all its manifestations and across all categories — Brand New grew out of the popularity of reviewing rebranding efforts on Speak Up and it now covers an even broader range of work as a dedicated site.

Brand New is designed and programmed for MovableType.

The logo for Brand New, our blog on corporate and brand identity, is bold and red. Few things are better than bold and red. It is set in Vllg's Apex Serif Extra Bold Small Caps (all in lowercase for extra boldness).

The Design Encyclopedia, launched in September of 2003, is a user-built source of reference material with the sole intention of defining, describing, chronicling and documenting the world through design in all its implications and manifestations, from cars, to burgers, to movies, even to logos — it was built on the need for cataloguing the impact of design in our lives.

By funneling available information on the web, on newspapers, in books, anywhere, through contributions from its users and editors, The Design Encyclopedia’s growth and depth proves potentially rich and unlimited.

Wiki implementation and programming by House of Pretty.

The logo for The Design Encyclopedia, our wiki devoted to all things design, draws its inspiration from the minimalist ideals of the Bauhaus, paired with one of the oldest sans serifs in town, Akzidenz Grotesk (1898!), with a little touch of CMYK for good measure. For more on The Design Encyclopedia read this entry.

Each year, Speak Up celebrates its anniversary by putting together Stop Being Sheep. A self-financed, twenty-plus-page, two-color, lovable booklet standing in at 4.5 x 6.5 in.. These publications gather each year’s most thought-provoking, amusing and enthralling commentaries that have been left on Speak Up, and are freely distributed among friends and peers and sold for a modicum price online to recuperate printing
and shipping costs.

Each year, Speak Up celebrates its anniversary by putting together Stop Being Sheep. A self-financed, twenty-plus-page, two-color, lovable booklet standing in at 4.5 x 6.5 in.. These publications gather each year’s most thought-provoking, amusing and enthralling commentaries that have been left on Speak Up, and are freely distributed among friends and peers and sold for a modicum price online to recuperate printing
and shipping costs.

In 2005 Lorraine Wild, a California-based designer and teacher, gave a lecture at the AIGA New York chapter, the event poster is a long, semi-random litany of demi-sentences that rhyme with her last name.

With Speak Up celebrating its first anniversary, the first volume of Stop Being Sheep was born. A self-financed, twenty-plus-page, two-color, lovable booklet standing in at 4.5 x 6.5 in., that gathers the year’s most thought-provoking, amusing and enthralling commentaries. These are freely distributed among friends and peers and sold for a modicum price online to recuperate printing and shipping costs.

Web site design and programming for the inaugural online presence of Office for Urbanism.