Design

Level Playing Field Institute and Commongood Careers have published a new study titled The Voice of Nonprofit Talent: Perceptions of Diversity in the Workplace. The study surveyed a large sample of current and former nonprofit employees to explore the commitment to and perception of racial diversity in nonprofit work environments. Creative was brought on to bring the report to life with a clean and engaging design.

One of the Kapor Center's longest residents, our coworker with the mostworker, Esther, is moving on to new ventures. We threw her a helluva going away party and I had the honor of creating an illustration for the send-off.

Our very sane event planners at the Kapor Center 543 long ago figured out that the right time for an office holiday party is, in fact, well after the holidays, in January. During the chaos of December, as everyone is putting the wrapping up their travel plans, decorations and gift shopping, it's a blessing not to have to add another event to the calendar, and certainly must make the event planning easier.

We recently used Xmind to create a series of mindmaps to capture and document discussions at the 2010 What Works! conference sponsored by Mitchell Kapor Foundation. Mindmapping is a great tool to use for brainstorming and planning, but in this case, we used it for notetaking and graphic faciliation.

Each year, the SMASH and IDEAL programs end with a pseudo-graduation event celebrating the students efforts throughout the year. This year, we decided to simplify the printed programs from the sometimes ambitious approaches we've taken in previous years. Still, as the Creative team, we're always working to bring clever ideas to even straightforward materials.