This website was needed to highlight the work of some crazy founding fathers that weren’t getting enough attention. It presented some unique challenges as I had to figure out how to make a partridge with a repeating background in a relatively seamless way. It ended up coming together quite nicely and its one of my favorites sites aesthetically.
The site was originally created for an action to take place on Tax Day 2010. My clients were going up against a powerful media circus sponsored by Fox News which soon became the tea party movement. Our message was to highlight the facts and change the narrative of that day. We were largely successful and got much national media exposure across the spectrum.
Foreign Policy In Focus, a project of the Institute for Policy Studies, was in need of a campaign site for coalition work on trying to close the U.S. military bases in Okinawa Japan. They approached me and I was happy to help out.
NEWGroup is an organization that formed soon after the economic collapse in the fall of 2008. It was created with the expressed purpose of re-framing the economic policy debate and to address the social and environmental imperatives that seem to be often ignored in typical economic policy discourse.
When the need arose to create a website for the group, I was selected by the NEWGroup core committee to write up an RFP, and construct a custom theme, and build out the website.
In the fall of 2009, I got an email about this strange group of folks organizing a delegation to “thank” the tea-baggers for coming to Washington and rallying on behalf of their profits. That group turned out to be the Billionaires for Wealthcare: “a grassroots network of health insurance CEOs, HMO lobbyists, talk-show hosts, and [...]