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Elytra Design clients are diverse ~ and it is diversity that it keeps us constantly learning, exploring, stretching, finding new solutions, new designs, new expressions. We work closely with each client to create a website that demonstrates who they are and what they want their website to express and accomplish. We are grateful and proud to be associated with each of them. You will see why as you click through our portfolio.
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NEWEST SITES
Mapping Thoreau Country [WordPress]
This site uses historical maps to organize and display primary materials related to Thoreau's travels throughout Massachusetts. Pages contain explanatory notes, images, quotes, and links to additional resources that illuminate Thoreau's remarkable contributions to American political, social, economic, and environmental thought.
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Davis Square Architects [Drupal]
A design and planning studio with a mission: to produce excellent design, build sustainable communities, and deliver attentive, affordable service to our clients. Our project teams are led by dedicated architects with decades of experience in towns and cities throughout the Northeast.
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TW Promotions, Inc. [WordPress]
TWP invented, patented and introduced The Mat Rack System, a series of wrestling mat handling, storage and transportation units, which have been distributed throughout the United States and abroad since 1986.
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Find My Insurer (FMI)
"Find My Insurer" is a free life insurance company locator service to assist consumers. It is run by the non-profit, policyholder-advocacy group, Center for Insurance Research. More...
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The Massachusetts Employment Lawyers Association (MELA) [WordPress]
The Massachusetts Employment Lawyers Association (MELA) is a voluntary association of lawyers dedicated to advancing the rights of individual employees in the workplaces of Massachusetts. More...
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The National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild
The National Immigration Project is a national non-profit organization that provides legal assistance and technical support to immigrant communities, legal practitioners, and all advocates seeking to advance the rights of noncitizens. More...
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Transforming Capitalism 2.0 to 3.0 [Drupal site]
Transforming Capitalism 2.0 to 3.0 is a growing resource of living examples, research, and interviews with pioneers of the green-regenerative economy. Very interactive website, with leading edge economists and researchers. More...
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Catherine Kernan Artwork
The work of Catherine Kernan is quietly reflective, filled with minute changes of color and complexity of line that cause the viewer to stop and contemplate the image. More...
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TeacherBound: the Upward Bound Program at Wheelock College!
Teacher Bound is a unique Upward Bound program located at Wheelock College in Boston, MA. It is a comprehensive program for high school students to prepare them for college acceptance, admission, and academic excellence. More...
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Peabody Museum at Harvard University [Drupal]
Founded in 1866, the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology is one of the oldest museums in the world devoted to anthropology and houses one of the most comprehensive records of human cultural history in the Western Hemisphere. More...
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LAW & LEGAL SITES
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Strategies for Youth
A Boston based organization, Strategies for Youth is dedicated to improving the interactions between police and youth nation wide by increasing the approach, options, and responses of police to youth.
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Cole Civil Rights and Safe Schools Consulting
Cole Civil Rights provides high quality consulting and legal services in civil rights, harassment and discrimination in the areas of K-12 Education, Higher Education, Police & Law Enforcement, Employment Discrimination, Housing Discrimination, Health & Mental Health, and Public Accommodations Discrimination.
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Stern Shapiro Weissberg & Garin, LLP
SSWG is a litigation firm with a reputation for superb and effective advocacy. The firm's versatile partners are equally at home in the civil and criminal legal worlds, and have compiled an impressive record of persuasion in arguing to juries in both state and federal courts and to judges at every trial and appellate level, including the United States Supreme Court.
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Lichten & Liss-Riordan, P.C.
Lichten & Liss-Riordan, P.C. is a plaintiffs’-side employment and union-side labor law firm, whose attorneys have achieved national recognition for their work representing employees and unions in wage and hour, discrimination, and other employment-related litigation.
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Adkins, Kelston and Zavez, P.C .
The law firm of Adkins, Kelston & Zavez, P.C., represents individual and business clients in a wide variety of legal and litigation matters.
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Legal Services Center
Harvard Law School
The Hale and Dorr Legal Services Center of Harvard Law School is committed to educating law students for practice and professional service while working to meet th legal needs of the community.
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The Criminal Justice Institute
Harvard Law School
The curriculum-based criminal law clinical program of Harvard Law School dedicated to to educating its students to become effective, ethical and zealous criminal defense lawyer-advocates.
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The National Police Accountability Project
Boston, MA
The National Police Accountability Project (NPAP), a project of the National Lawyers Guild, is a non-profit organization of plaintiff's lawyers, law students and legal workers.
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ART AND PHOTOGRAPHY SITES
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Catherine Kernan Artwork
The work of Catherine Kernan is quietly reflective, filled with minute changes of color and complexity of line that cause the viewer to stop and contemplate the image. More...
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Elisif Brandon Photography
A Boston based architectural photographer, Elisif strives not only to reproduce and represent a structure in a technically accomplished way, but also to find unusual elements, angles, and views of a building that express something about its form, its function, its setting, or even the feeling one gets in its presence.
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Noah Riskin, Artist and Educator
Noah Riskin is an artist and educator whose work and teaching draw from a diverse realm of life experiences. An identical twin, high-level gymnast and coach, painter and environmental artist, it is the human body that informs and guides his work.
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Martin Greene Photos
Martin Greene has had solo exhibitions at the Becket Arts Center and the Carrie Haddad Gallery in Hudson, NY. His work has been exhibited at Simon’s Rock College, The USS Constitution Museum in Boston, the Norman Rockwell Museum in Lenox, and the Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield.
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Max Stern Photography
Take a journey through Max's photo galleries, and visit the old Orange Line in Boston, or Waterworks in Chestnut Hill. Max makes the most unexpected subjects into art.
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Igor Shpilenok, Russian Nature Photography
Bryansk oblast, Russia
Igor Shpilenok photographs wilderness and wildlife in Russia’s vast yet relatively unknown system of protected areas, consisting of strict nature reserves – called zapovedniks – and national parks.
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Don Gurewitz Photography
Somerville, MA
Don Gurewitz is an award-winning photographer and inveterate world traveler whose wanderings have taken him to more than fifty countries on five continents.
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Andy Amato Artwork
Boston, MA
A local artist from the Boston area, Andy Amato has been drawing and painting for as long as he can remember. His love of American history, music, and sports, gives him the perfect subject matter for his artistic expression.
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BUSINESS and CONSULTING
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TW Promotions, Inc. (Matrack)
Wrestling Mat Handlilng, Storage and Transportation
TW Promotions, Inc. is began operations in 1988 under the guidance of Bill Farrell, Nick Gallo and Neil Duncan. It is the exclusive New York metropolitan area distributor of the RESILITE wrestling mat and protective wall padding line.
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Joseph Gifford
Joe Gifford is a respected teacher of over 25 years. He works with conductors, singers and instrumentalists, bringing students the possibility of going beyond personal boundaries, and growing new pathways that lead to deeper and wider dimensions of the timeless world of music.
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Contributions Magazine
Contributions Magazine is the ‘how-to’ source for those working at America’s charitable organizations. They focus on all facets of fundraising and organizational management. Also the publishers of Emerson & Church, Publishers, they offer some of the bestselling and most authoritative fundraising and board development books in America.
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Andover Pediatrics
Parents have entrusted their children’s care to Andover Pediatrics for over 30 years. Whether treating a child suffering from illness, or providing guidance for our families at physicals, they has provided comprehensive, personal care to their patients.
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Susan Krantz and Viniyoga Journey
Located in Boston, MA, Viniyoga Journey is the form of yoga taught by Susan Krantz and others. It is a practical, intelligent approach to yoga that encourages development of the continual self-care concept.
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Sophie Parker & Associates
Located in Boston, MA, Sophie Parker & Associates provides creative solutions to organizational challenges, with a mission is to work with people to create healthy and productive workplaces.
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Away It Goes
Debby Fenn is professional organizer who can make all the difference in your life -- where you will feel better about the space that you work and live in.
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Atlantis Physical Therapy Group (APTG)
APTG's therapeutic treatment programs include traditional exercises which are complimented by elements from yoga, Pilates, GYROKINESIS®, and core strength training.
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The Next Stage New York
Located in the beautiful West Village of NYC, this renovated space is the ideal rental venue for rehearsals, readings, performance as well as events and receptions.
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ROAR: Reservoirs of Antibiotic Resistance Network
The Reservoirs of Antibiotic Resistance (ROAR) project, coordinated by the Alliance for the Prudent Use of Antibiotics is an unprecedented effort to improve scientific understanding of the role of commensal bacteria in the spread of antimicrobial resistance.
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Bodhi Tree
Bodhi Tree is a new store dedicated to sharing the art, culture and spiritual traditions of Tibet and the Himalaya, located in Cambridge, MA.
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The Window
Events Venue, London, UK
An elegant corporate events venue for business meetings & private conferences in Islington, London
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Ascent Copywriting
Lenox, MA
SEO Copyriting firm: published writers with business experience, a creative eye, and search engine marketing savvy. They write your copy—brochures, trade articles, and Web content—so you can run your business. |
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Center for Management Effectiveness
Pacific Palisades, CA
CME specializes in high impact Management Training Programs that utilize validated assessment inventories to accelerate learning and improve performance.
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Quest Consulting and Training Corporation
Pacific Palisades, CA
Human Resource Consulting & Development for the 21st Century, Quest provides human resource consulting and development have never been more needed. |
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NON PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS
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The Pasteur Foundation
The Pasteur Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation, works to raise funds to support the world-renowned Institut Pasteur in Paris, France, whose mission is to improve public health by contributing to the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases.
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Strategies for Youth
Strategies for Youth is dedicated to improving the interactions between police and youth by increasing the approach, options, and responses of police to youth.
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Peabody Museum at Harvard University
Founded in 1866, the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology is one of the oldest museums in the world devoted to anthropology and houses one of the most comprehensive records of human cultural history in the Western Hemisphere.
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Full-service Schools Roundtable
The Full-service Schools Roundtable is working to advance the healthy development and academic success of students through integrated school-community partnerships.
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The Coalition of Schools Educating Boys of Color
The Coalition of Schools Educating Boys of Color (COSEBOC) is a national network of schools and organizations dedicated to the preparation of male students of color to acquire the moral, intellectual, and social capital necessary to succeed in schools, families, neighborhoods and the broader American society.
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Alliance for Inclusion and Prevention (AIP)
A small, innovative Boston based organization focused on demonstrating new and effective models for advancing the mental health and school success of children at high risk, AIP has defined a new model of public/private partnership for serving children with behavioral health problems.
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The Boston Research Center for the 21st Century (BRC)
is an institute for peace, learning, and dialogue located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. BRC programs include public forums and scholarly seminars that are organized collaboratively and offer a range of perspectives on key issues in global ethics.
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Contributions Magazine
Contributions Magazine is the ‘how-to’ source for those working at America’s charitable organizations. They focus on all facets of fundraising and organizational management. Also the publishers of Emerson & Church, Publishers, they offer some of the bestselling and most authoritative fundraising and board development books in America.
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East Boston Ecumenical Community Council
East Boston Ecumenical Community Council, also known as EBECC, has helped immigrants establish new lives in East Boston for almost 30 years.
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ROAR: Reservoirs of Antibiotic Resistance Network
The Reservoirs of Antibiotic Resistance (ROAR) project, coordinated by the Alliance for the Prudent Use of Antibiotics is an unprecedented effort to improve scientific understanding of the role of commensal bacteria in the spread of antimicrobial resistance.
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The Boston Minstrel Company
Boston, MA
The Boston Minstrels are a lively troupe of volunteer singers and musicians who have seen how music heals, having visited shelters, residential facilities and prisons each month since 1991. Their interactive pop, rock and folk events touch audiences of about 4,000 each year.
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* Wild Russia
Russia
Designed and developed in partnership with friend and colleague, Jon Sachs of (former) CenterMedia
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EDUCATION
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After the Absolute
The book, After the Absolute by Dave Gold, is one of the most gripping, intensely dramatic...heroic- mythic yet poignantly human accounts I have ever read. Gold’s account is not just a superb narrative but THE universal drama.
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The Center for Middle Eastern Studies
at Harvard University [Drupal]
Located in Cambridge MA, CMES offers a wide range of programs and activities about the Middle East with the goal of increasing awareness and understanding of the region, both historically and in contemporary perspective.
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Legal Services Center
Harvard Law School
The Hale and Dorr Legal Services Center of Harvard Law School is committed to educating law students for practice and professional service while working to meet th legal needs of the community.
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The Criminal Justice Institute
Harvard Law School
The curriculum-based criminal law clinical program of Harvard Law School dedicated to to educating its students to become effective, ethical and zealous criminal defense lawyer-advocates.
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