La Cocina, the incubator kitchen in the Mission in San Francisco, is one of Windesheim Design’s non-profit clients. Caleb Zigas came to us asking for a site that would get the information out to the community, integrate with social networking (twitter, facebook, youtube), sell product via paypal, translate, and be editable by volunteers. Whew. We used this project to develop a WordPress template that more of our other non-profits and small businesses could use. The site has been very successful—they have had so much traffic they had to up the capacity twice.
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I recently had the pleasure of redesigning a website for WE-ACTx (through Windesheim Design). WE-ACTx is an organization that advocates for the health and well being of the women and children of Rwanda, post genocide. The site (wordpress) had to be completely reorganized and streamlined to make it as easy as possible for volunteers to update. Visually, the design challenge was to make the viewer feel a more personal connected to the women and children served.
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The TEC Awards are another client of Windesheim Design. We design all the support matierial for the Awards Ceremony. + Lou Reed and David Byrne! :)
The Eva Gunter Foundation is another non-profit client of Windesheim Design, helping teenage girls. We design and publish their annual reports and other support material.
Nancy Windesheim of Windesheim Design and I have been collaborating since 2000. We designed this site for her a couple of years ago. We know we should update her site, but we are kinda attatched to it as is…
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The National AIDS Memorial Grove is another of Windesheim Design’s non-profit clients. We worked with director, John Cunningham, to create a site that could be updated by the organizations many volunteers and committees. One of my favorite moments as a designer was showing a group from NAMG how to update this wordpress site, and seeing collective lightbulbs going off over their heads as they got excited about the possibilities.
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Leslie Straw :: San Francisco based consultant, website and graphic designer
