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Repurposing banners for good

December 9th, 2011

The banners were turned into totebags by Urban Samaritan

Every year the Union Square Partnership installs new banners for the winter/holiday season to promote the district surrounding Union Square Park. Worldstudio works with the USP throughout the year on a wide variety of materials from event collateral for Summer in the Square and Harvest in the Square to promotional coupon books to email campaigns. Read the rest of this entry »

Community Engagement and Notre Dame

November 1st, 2011

Notre Dame logoThis spring, Worldstudio embarked on a project with Notre Dame’s Office of Public Affairs and Center for Social Concerns to assess the University’s community engagement efforts and how those efforts are being understood and perceived by key audiences. Read the rest of this entry »

Celebrating Local Food & Wine in Union Square

October 6th, 2011

On Thursday, September 22nd, over 1,200 foodies attended the 16th annual Harvest in the Square. Featuring more than 50 restaurants and 40 wineries, Union Square Partnership raised $326,000 to benefit Union Square Park.
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Building Green Communities

August 11th, 2011

Worldstudio is excited to be working with Enterprise Community Partners on a series of robust workshop and training materials which educate developers, property managers and residents on operating and living in green affordable housing.

Enterprise Green & Healthy symbols

The identity is built from a suite of icons that form the four main areas the program addresses: Healthy Homes, Water, Energy and Recycling.

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Urban Forest Project update

July 11th, 2011

The Urban Forest Project banners hanging in Washington, DC and Tacoma, WA.

A series of 100 banners were recently installed in the heart of Washington, DC, the latest city to collaborate with Worldstudio on The Urban Forest Project. This innovative environmental, public arts initiative is being presented by District Department of Transportation (DDOT), in collaboration with AIGA DC, the Corcoran College of Art + Design, and the Downtown DC Business Improvement District.

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Worldstudio partner joins Icograda board

May 17th, 2011

Worldstudio partner, Andréa Pellegrino, recently accepted an invitation to join Icograda’s Executive Board (International Council of Graphic Design Associations) as a co-opted board member. Andrea’s experience in building strategic alliances, association marketing and developing socially responsible strategies and programming are of particular relevance to Icograda future direction and projects.

President Russell Kennedy welcomed her and observed that, “Andréa brings a wealth of experience in fostering strategic alliances and demonstrating the value of design, skills we anticipate will enable new initiatives and growth for Icograda.”

Answering Adversity one image at a time

March 16th, 2011

Worldstudio consulted on the mission, strategy and messaging for the Young Photographer’s Alliance, a new non-profit organization which supports emerging photographers. For the Alliance’s inaugural mentoring initiative, Answering Adversity, Worldstudio developed the concept and structure of the program along with the theme and supporting materials, such as outreach collateral and mentoring guides. Worldstudio then worked with the Alliance over the life of the project to ensure success. What follows is a story about the program and the impact it has had on the participants.

The team from San Francisco gathers to review images

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Branding the “World’s Longest Department Store”

January 18th, 2011

Worldstudio has been working with the Steinway Astoria Partnership on a new branding and messaging program including naming, logotype, stationery system, lightpole banners, bus shelter poster and most recently a custom website with robust content-management system. Read the rest of this entry »

Design Ignites Change at TEDxMidAtlantic

December 15th, 2010

Last month, Design Ignites Change advisory board member, educator and Founding Partner of Kinetik, Sam Shelton, shared his experience of bringing the Design Ignites Change program into his classroom at the Corcoran College of Art + Design with the attendees of TEDxMidAtlantic.

Create! Don’t Hate. in Times Square

December 15th, 2010

Check out this short video of the Create! Don’t Hate billboards in Times Square!

Create! Don’t Hate, an initiative of Design Ignites Change, is taking place in cities all across the United States.