Rachel Corrie Foundation :: Andrew Ford Lyons

Posting at the Rachel Corrie Foundation site

January 23rd, 2009 | Published in Writings

I’m currently guest blogging at the Rachel Corrie Foundation website through the Gaza attack and the start of the Obama presidency. I’ll be posting links from around the web of news people may be missing from the usual news sources as well as writing some original content.

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Rachel Corrie Foundation website redesign

April 26th, 2008 | Published in Past Works

I spent last summer with my Movement Studio web designers cap on, giving the Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace and Justice website a makeover from the traditional blog that it had been, to something approaching a full news site that better represents the diverse projects that the foundation has going on.

Keeping with the colors and motifs that now gives RCF its brand was a challenge, and two complete sites were built from scratch. I’m hoping to actually give it an upgrade and another build later this year, similar to what’s there, but based on a Wordpress theme I’ve currently got under construction, that will turn it into yet still more of a news site. Over at the blog I detailed the some of the work involved. Here, I’m just posting both theme designs, the one that didn’t make it (image at right) and the one that did.

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About

March 3rd, 2008 | Published in Big Ideas

I’m a print and web designer, online and media campaign strategist, researcher, photographer and freelance writer from the U.S., living, working and starting a family in the UK with work experience in both places as well as in the Middle East, Asia and Northern Africa. This site is aimed at professional pursuits and constitutes more of an electronic hybrid resumé/portfolio/business card. I keep a blog at drew3ooo.

I started designing websites while working as a copy editor for a daily Gannett newspaper in the Northwest U.S. While working a shift in the middle of the night, I decided that other newspaper workers might enjoy an online forum where they could swap stories, commiserate, rant rave about their jobs and discuss how to make journalism a little better. This was called The Poison Kitchen for somewhat obscure reasons and represented the launch of my interest in making websites geared around using the potential of the internet to create change.

through creation of the Posion Kitchen I was immediately introduced to a wide variety of individuals, some of which I’d just as well have done without. I also learned that the shortcomings of mainstream media come not only from its corporate nature, but also from some of the people who would want to work for such a thing. I promptly gave the domain name away to someone who I don’t think ever did much with it. I left it all the wiser about the more dubious qualities of our emerging “Global Village,” though thorugh the years I’ve remained keen on working with various organizations striving to take their message and good works online.

I’ve gone on do digital media strategy for for a wide variety of productive, intelligent, happy people working on various sundry projects. See the resumé listing on this site information on some of these.

My other pursuits include coffee, photography, working toward a masters degree in psychology and writing. My first novel, Italian Greyhound, is ostensibly forthcoming.