My Sister's Place came to CEDC to design their first public service Metro Bus and Rail ad campaign. The ads were completed in both English and Spanish, and created for sides of Metro buses, inside the buses, and as back-lite posters for the platforms inside Metro rail stops. CEDC also created a smaller poster sized version of the ad that can be placed in local shops, social agencies, etc. The ads promote their 24-hour confidential domestic violence crisis hotline: 202-529-5991.

Avaaz.org today released poll results regarding whether Palestinians should have the right to their own state, in the opinion of citizens in Germany, France, and the UK. In conjunction with this, they are "installing a 20 metre (four-story) high giant Palestinian flag outside the European Council, delivering a 913,171 signature-strong petition, and will run a full page ad in The Guardian calling for European action."

Living Peace is the new biannual publication of the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace. We worked closely with their team as we designed this 16-page magazine to craft the right visual tone to match the content. The themes of the first two editions are "A Spirituality of Peace Through Justice" and "Growing in Nonviolence". You can learn more, browse the magazines online, or download PDFs on their site.

For the last four years, CEDC has been creating custom holiday cards for The Women’s Center. The cards include not only a seasonal greeting to their audience (funders, board members, community members) but also serves as a vehicle to get their message out about what services they provide the community.

As a follow-up to their global petition against stoning and protesting the unjust judgment against Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, we worked with Avaaz to design a set of ads in the global push to save Sakineh and stand for human rights.

We designed this event program for the Community Foundation for the National Capitol Region for a "celebration of civic spirit honoring The Morris & Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation and presenting the 2009 Linowes Leadership Awards Recipients."

We prepared this magazine-style program calendar to highlight the programs and services offered by the Women's Center (Winter 2010). The interior is black and white.

Avaaz, continuing in what has become a great tradition of parody ads, took out space in the "Green New Deal" supplement in the Financial Times today. A quarter page ad on the front page depicts Barack Obama, Angela Merkel and Yukio Hatoyama in shiny black outfits and dark sunglasses, posing the question "What is the CliMatrix?" and inviting readers to turn to the back page to find out.

Avaaz took out an advertisement timed to coincide with a summit of EU leaders to try to push for support of a climate finance package and set the stage for Copenhagen in December. The proximity of the summit to Halloween lent itself to a concept that was a lot of fun to work on. As usual, the timing was short, but it turned out well and is printed full page, in full color, in today's international edition of the Financial Times.

TckTckTck had a chance to put a full page, full-color ad on the back page of the Financial Times the day before UN climate talks began in New York and leading up to the G20 meeting in Pittsburgh. We were able to work with them under tight time constraints to develop a visual for their message. See below for the text of the ad, encouraging the leaders that will be attending the talks to take advantage of the opportunity to lead the way towards a fair, ambitious and binding deal in Copenhagen.

We recently helped Avaaz with the design of a t-shirt concept they had conceived as a fundraiser, with proceeds going "to support projects that enable Iranians to freely access the internet." Here's how they describe the concept:

Church World Service and CEDC continue the "Enough for All" series of brochures with this publication. The publication details the disproportionately heavy toll changes in the environment are taking on women and girls and urges the government to pay attention. The CWS campaign utilizes the challenges and opportunities brought by climate change to promote just and ecologically sustainable development.

The full brochure is available by clicking here.

This project blossomed into a four page spread after initially being conceived as a single page. Continuing on a successful theme of parodying pop culture to drive home a point, Avaaz.org embedded the drama of the UN global climate talks (in Poznan) and the upcoming EU summit (in Brussels) into a blockbuster storyline emphasizing the epic battle that faces Angela Merkel as she makes some very important decisions regarding the environment and the economy. We created the digital illustrations and other visuals to accompany it -- and we even managed to get a few Ewoks in on the last page.

We helped design an Avaaz campaign advertisement targeting Gordon Brown and David Miliband of the UK, encouraging them to "support a neutral EU force to protect Congo's civilians." Shortly after, Avaaz sent out an email describing how "[the UK] Africa minister called us immediately, and their position has shifted -- the UK has moved toward supporting a European force!"

With the success of the redesigned Bridges magazine, Bon Secour Spiritual Center wanted a special edition of the magazine to promote their fundraising campaign. The special edition includes: giving opportunities, information of how the funding will be used and drawings of the planned renovations for the center.

In 2007, Bon Secours Spiritual Center came to CEDC in hopes of creating a more effective promotional tool out of their newsletter, Bridges, which at the time was designed in-house. CEDC redesigned the current look and created a smaller sized 6x9, 4-color magazine format for the new bi-yearly publication. The magazine includes informative articles, announcements and services offered by the center, as well as a detailed 8-month program calendar.

The Community Foundation wanted to present groundbreaking work done by the Collaborative for Education Organizing (CEO) to the community. This white paper details the activities of CEO and the five organizations who received grants from CEO. It was important to CFNCR that the report be clean, eye catching and engaging for the reader. Using white space, pull-quotes, large bold areas of color, with famous historical quotes on education and images taken by students from the participating organizations helped accomplish this goal.

Avaaz developed two ad campaigns to run in African countries neighboring Sudan offering a strong defence of the International Criminal Court and the trial of Omar al-Bashir after he was indicted for genocide.

The Avaaz Olympics campaign was wrapped up with an advertisement online and in Ming Pao in Hong Kong. The headline asks "As the Olympics draw to a close, what do 200,000 human rights and democracy loving global citizens want to bring to China?" The answer: A Handshake.

Avaaz developed a broad campaign relating to the Olympics in Beijing and unfurled it in advance of the opening ceremonies, continuing all the way through to the closing ceremonies. A large piece of the overall campaign that we helped with was the "Love China Love X" theme, which was pushed online, in newspapers, and in unique formats like pedicabs, scooters, and pediwalkers. The three prongs of the campaign were: [1] Love China Love Tibet [2] Love China Love Darfur and [3] Love China Love Burma.