Bureau Blank works with a number of clients, institutional and non-profit, for whom driving social change is a key objective. As these groups' constituencies and audiences spend increasing amounts of their time online, we've been asked to build a number of online communities to help facilitate several goals:

• group communication and collaboration across wide geographies
• sharing of best practices within peer groups
• organizing and disseminating valuable intellectual capital
• collecting input and resources from the field

Above you'll see a few of these projects, more can be found in our portfolio under our web + applications discipline.

We worked with the team at Full Circle Home, a company that makes eco-friendly housewares, to create the packaging design for the Stick 'Em magnetic kitchen towel.

Made from bamboo, organic cotton, and other recycled materials, Stick 'Em is awesome and is always right where you tossed it! The towel is featured as one of Fab.com's latest sales, but in case you miss it check out the Full Circle Home site to find where you can buy it in your area.

Bureau Blank brands SI Detroit, a breakthrough forum convening Metro Detroit's software and Internet entrepreneurs.

You've heard of Silicon Valley and Silicon Alley, but what about Webward Avenue? A group of innovators in the Metro Detroit area are looking to make sure you take notice of the boom that's underway in the area.

SI Detroit, according to its mission, "was created by software and Internet entrepreneurs who recognized that Detroit's growing information technology community needed a forum that would foster information sharing, networking, and support."

We created the visual identity to help this first-of-its-kind event series make a bold impression as it launches its first event on March 19th.

Learn more about SI Detroit here and check out the below to learn more about the rise of tech in Detroit.

Inc. Magazine: How the Motor City Got Its Groove Back
CNN: Detroit: The Next Silicon Valley?
Bloomberg: Detroit Outgrows Silicon Valley in Technology Jobs

We've been doing more and more 3D renderings for our clients, so we were happy to see DailyCandy editor Karen Palmer shout out Living Proof's Restore Mask Treatment as one of her favorite finds!

Bureau Blank has complete a full brand identity design and website for Mack & Co.

Founded by Roszell Mack III, a founding Partner of Ascend Venture Group and former Goldman Sachs investment banker, Mack & Co. is an independent global advisory firm offering strategic, financial, and alternative investment solutions for family offices. The firm's Global Family Network allows it to offer its clients a diverse array of specialized knowledge and expertise.

As premium customer service is a critical component of Mack & Co.'s work, we worked closely ith their team to develop a full suite of communications from visual identity and collateral to brand articulation language and a new website to make the firm's value proposition clear and attractive to prospective clients.

Visit the new Mack & Co website

Bureau Blank client ContourGlobal is receiving widespread press as the company continues to develop new energy projects around the world.

In recent weeks, ContourGlobal has been featured in press from across the globe for its new work in Bulgaria and Rwanda.

On November 3, ContourGlobal officially opened Maritsa East 3, a Bulgarian thermal power plant that the company acquired in March 2011 for 230 million EUR. As reported in the Bulgarian Standart News, ContourGlobal will also invest in green technologies compliant with modern EU requirements.

In late October, ContourGlobal announced the selection of BNY Mellon as the corporate trustee for the financing of its KivuWatt project in Rwanda. KivuWatt will produce power from methane gas extracted from Lake Kivu and as Bloomberg reports, reduce the risk of a serious environmental incident from lake explosions.

Learn more about KivuWatt and Maritsa East 3 on the ContourGlobal website

More about our work on the ContourGlobal website

Bureau Blank has launched a brand new website for boutique investment bank Petsky Prunier.

Petsky Prunier is one of the leading investment banks serving the marketing, media, technology, and services industries. As the firm’s primary face to its audience, the previous website needed an overhaul to improve user interface and to make the most valuable content more visible.

We worked with the team at Petsky Prunier to identify their communication goals and the overall impression they wanted to leave with site visitors – that the firm is a true leader based on its track record, expertise, and how it approaches each project. We also streamlined the organization of content, notably their portfolio of transactions and the firm’s research center to bolster their presentation as a thought leader in the space. Additionally, the team can now manage and update content internally to keep the site fresh with deal and event news updates as they happen.

Visit the new Petsky Prunier website

To mark the 20th anniversary of urban innovator Living Cities, Bureau Blank has designed the publication Dynamic Collaboration: Reflections on Living Cities at 20.

The Dynamic Collaboration monograph advances the traditional annual report to commemorate an important milestone for Living Cities. It features contributions from more than two dozen leading urban thinkers and practitioners (such as the Brookings Institution's Bruce Katz, PolicyLink CEO Angela Glover Blackwell, and U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretaries Shaun Donovan and Henry Cisneros) on key issue areas and Living Cities' work over the past two decades. Profiles of each of the contributors can be found in an interactive graphic on the Living Cities homepage: http://www.livingcities.org/

The publication was made available at Living Cities 20th Anniversary celebration on September 27, 2011 and features commissioned illustrations of each contributor by artist Ignacio Hinojosa.

Bureau Blank’s redesign of ContourGlobal’s website has officially launched.

Launched in 2005, ContourGlobal is one of the fastest growing power and energy operating and developing companies in its industry. Its portfolio is robust in both high-growth, underserved markets and innovative niches within developed markets around the world.

Our strategy in the redesign was to update the site’s look and feel from the startup phase to match the company’s impressive track record and growing reputation, ultimately reflecting ContourGlobal’s leadership in the global energy sector.

To quickly and deeply immerse visitors into what makes ContourGlobal unique in its field, we emphasized bold visuals and improved the information architecture to make the site easy to navigate and useful for the company’s key audiences.

Visit the new ContourGlobal website

ContourGlobal awarded Europe, Middle East and Africa Power Portfolio of the Year (article preview)

Bureau Blank has redesigned the website of longtime partner Living Cities to reflect the organization’s growth and achievements in recent years.

Where the first stage of our work with Living Cities in 2009 was to rebrand the organization with an emphasis on its process and point of view, the new website is designed to highlight the results generated by its work and the activities that are currently underway.

Launched in time for the celebration of their 20th anniversary, the new website features a greater depth of content categories and supports a range of media types from video and image galleries to PDFs of reports and publications. We also worked closely with Living Cities to ensure that the site’s architecture was designed to effectively reach key audiences with priority messages. With a robust search tool and social media integration, all of this rich content is easy to access and even easier to share.

Visit the new Living Cities website