Editorial and Design Services
Meeting Planning and Management
Website Design, Development and Management

Editorial and Design Services

Palladian designs and produces just about every electronic and print product imaginable. We create websites, fact sheets, newsletters, posters, street banners, advertisements, logos, slides, product packaging, reports, manuals and conference summaries. Some of these print materials are for a general audience, while others are for scientists and are highly technical.

Following are brief descriptions of some of Palladian's editorial and design projects:

Identity Products

National Institute of Justice (NIJ)
Palladian developed an identity for NIJ that communicates the importance of research to the justice community. We conducted interviews with NIJ staff, facilitated brainstorming sessions, and then created an identity that could be graphically translated to all of the Institute’s publications, its website, and a CD.

Developmental Therapeutics Program
Palladian created an identity for the National Cancer Institute's (NCI) Developmental Therapeutics Program, a resource for cancer researchers across the country. This identity project involved creating a family of products, including a logo, website, brochure, 10’ exhibit, banner stand display, CD-ROM packaging, and collateral materials such as mouse pads and T-shirts to distribute at conferences.

Bronze Award
Health and Science Communications Association 2005

Distinguished and Best in Show Awards (regional)
Merit Award (international)
Society for Technical Communication 2004

Breast Cancer Think Tank
Palladian designed and created identity materials for an innovative NCI scientific exchange pilot program, the Breast Cancer Think Tank. Palladian developed the logo concepts and a family of products for the program, which continues today as the Breast Cancer and Gynecologic Malignancies Faculty.

President’s DNA Initiative design concept
Palladian created an overall design concept for the President’s DNA Initiative, which is aimed at improving the use of DNA in the criminal justice system. Under a contract with NIJ, Palladian created an identity system for the Initiative’s publications and its website. We developed a color palette for the Initiative partners within the Department of Justice and a template file for publications.

TriService Nursing Research Program communications products
Palladian designed a unified family of communications products, including a brochure, banner stand displays, and website for the TriService Nursing Research Program. The Program is part of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, and funds military nursing research.

Promotional Materials

NIJ Timeline: Ahead of the Curve
A version of this timeline first appeared in the NIJ 2004 Annual Report, another award-winning design by Palladian. Due to the timeline’s popularity, NIJ asked Palladian to produce a stand-alone promotional brochure that highlights the Institute’s past initiatives as well as its continued efforts to help practitioners, researchers, and policymakers find solutions to prevent and combat crime.

Gold Award, Brochure/Company Overview
MarCom Creative Awards
2007

Biomedical Imaging Program banner and postcard
Palladian designed and created banner stand displays and a promotional postcard for NCI’s Biomedical Imaging Program.

Distinguished and Best in Show Awards (regional)
Excellence Award (international)
Society for Technical Communication 2002

John E. Fogarty International Center (FIC) multimedia exhibit
This project involved gathering together FIC's senior staff and director to discuss the exhibit’s purpose and the vision of FIC’s leadership vis-à-vis the display. Palladian used the information to create three designs, all of which met their expectations. FIC had to call a second meeting and hold a vote on which design they liked the best. The exhibit, which features an automated PowerPoint presentation, is on permanent display in Building 31 on the National Institutes of Health (NIH) campus.

Avon-NCI Progress for Patients Awards Program brochure
Palladian wrote, edited, designed, and printed the Avon-NCI Progress for Patients Awards Program brochure, which highlights breast cancer clinical trials funded jointly by the Avon Foundation and NCI. The brochure is being disseminated at Avon Walk for Breast Cancer events nationwide from spring through fall of 2005. Palladian also worked on this project in 2004 and will be designing a new brochure for 2006.

Excellence Award
APEX Awards for Publications Excellence 2005

Georgetown University School of Nursing and Health Studies promotional materials
With the goal of boosting its recruiting efforts, the University relied on Palladian to design and create promotional and informational materials that would appeal to potential student candidates. Palladian developed three targeted brochures, a newsletter, and posters, all with a uniform look.

Cancer Therapy Evaluation Program banners
Palladian designed a series of three banner stand displays for NCI's Cancer Therapy Evaluation Program. The displays communicate the themes “discovering new cancer treatments,” “from theory to therapy,” and “drug development for public health.”

Merit Award
Society for Technical Communication 2003

Publications

National Institute of Justice 2004 Annual Report to Congress
Palladian designed and provided editorial support for this report. The report highlights NIJ's activities during 2004 and features a pull-out timeline depicting the Institute's history, dating back to 1968.

Excellence Award
Society for Technical Communication 2005

NIJ Journal
Palladian designed and formats the NIJ Journal, the research publication of the National Institute of Justice. Published several times per year, the NIJ Journal helps criminal justice policymakers and practitioners stay informed about new developments. It presents research-based information that can help inform policy decisions and improve understanding of the criminal justice system.

CCR Frontiers in Science newsletter
Palladian managed the entire editorial and design and production process for the award-winning newsletter CCR Frontiers in Science. The newsletter is a tool for scientists within NCI's Center for Cancer Research to share information about their research with each other and with researchers at cancer centers around the country. Palladian writes some of the articles, substantively edits all the articles, formats each issue, and handles the printing. In addition, Palladian designed and produces HTML and PDF versions of the newsletter.

Excellence Award
APEX Awards for Publication Excellence 2005

Excellence Award
Society for Technical Communication 2003

CDC Youth Tobacco Cessation: A Guide for Making Informed Decisions
Palladian designed and formatted for easy readability the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) publication Youth Tobacco Cessation: A Guide for Making Informed Decisions. The guide covers topics such as the quality of the evidence base for youth interventions, the importance of conducting needs assessments, and the need to evaluate interventions.

Excellence Award
Society for Technical Communication 2004

CCR Networks
Palladian helped conceptualize this newsletter geared for a general audience. Palladian also designed the newsletter and writes and edits the articles. CCR Networks provides the cancer community a glimpse of NCI's intramural research activities and insights into the personalities of NCI scientists and their achievements.

Global Health Matters
Global Health Matters is the newsletter of the John E. Fogarty International Center, part of NIH. Palladian designed and formats the newsletter, which highlights the Center's activities and initiatives to foster international collaboration in health research and training.

From Data to Action: Using Surveillance to Promote Public Health
Palladian designed and provided editorial support for this CDC publication that presents examples of how Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) data have been used by states to set priorities, change policies and programs, and identify new resources.

Meeting Planning and Management

Palladian plans and manages meetings and conferences from beginning to end. Since 1997, our conference team has organized more than 1,000 scientific meetings. Support services include conference promotion, development of conference websites and meeting materials, online registration, teleconferencing, travel and lodging arrangements, onsite logistics including audiovisual equipment setup, reporting and transcription, conference report writing, and dinners, tours and other special events. We can also arrange videocasting and virtual meeting participation.

Palladian's Conference Management System is an integrated, web-enabled data solution that allows staff and clients to plan and launch new meeting websites quickly and inexpensively. Developed to meet the specific needs of government-sponsored meetings, the system has many timesaving tools and features for both our clients and our meeting planners.

Some promotional materials designed by Palladian for our clients' meetings appear below:

NIJ’s Ninth Crime Mapping Research Conference Program
The Crime Mapping Research Conference attracts researchers, practitioners, and policymakers from across the country to explore geographic principles and how they can be used to prevent and reduce crime. Palladian planned, managed, and provided logistical support for the 2007 conference. We also designed a brand/identity that will be used on future conference marketing materials.

Merit Award, Cover Design
Society for Technical Communication 2007

National Cancer Institute (NCI) Gynecological Malignancies Faculty Workshop promotional poster
The faculty is composed of scientists from diverse laboratories and branches who work cooperatively with a common interest, and it is a mechanism for improving interdisciplinary research and translational science. The workshop, on clinical specimen procurement, processing, and preservation, was open to researchers throughout the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Merit Award
Society for Technical Communication 2002

Metastasis Working Group Retreat poster
This poster design capitalized on the retreat’s themes of “genes and genetics,” “models and imaging,” and “signaling and translation.”

Merit Award
Society for Technical Communication 2003

19th International Pigment Cell Conference
The International Pigment Cell Conference (IPCC), held every three years, attracts top international scientists studying pigmentation, pigmentary diseases, and related topics. Palladian organized and staffed the 2005 IPCC. In addition, we provided the program brochure, postcard, and poster for the conference.

GvHD: The Next Frontier in Transplantation Research
This one-day comprehensive conference focused on developing definitions and tools for conducting clinical trials in chronic graft-versus-host disease, outlining current standards of care, and identifying directions for future clinical research. In addition to providing meeting support and planning, we produced an award-winning postcard, and an e-card, poster, and program booklet for this meeting.

Excellence Award
Society for Technical Communication 2005

Website Design, Development, and Management

Palladian designs, develops, and manages a wide variety of websites and web-enabled databases. We provide hosting, write content, or program interactive features for most of the websites that appear below.

Website Design

Center for Cancer Research (CCR) website
Palladian rewrote and designed CCR's website and portions of the Center’s Intranet. Our writer worked with the communication staff at CCR to develop an audience-based, user-friendly website that highlighted CCR’s basic and translational research breakthroughs. We started by suggesting changes to the site’s architecture. Following architecture approval, we wrote more than 200 pages of original content. CCR later asked Palladian Partners to redesign the website's graphical interface.

Excellence Award
Society for Technical Communication 2004

Share the Health website
Palladian created consumer-oriented English- and Spanish-language marketing materials over the past three years for Share the Health, a community health exposition sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Work has included designing and developing a website, flyers, posters, programs, buttons, and bags.

 English | Spanish

Merit Award
World Wide Web Health Awards 2004

Centre Consulting
Recently, we designed and developed this commercial site for a legal consulting firm. We also host and administer the Centre's E-Library database.

CCR Frontiers in Science newsletter
Palladian designed and produces HTML and PDF versions of the award-winning newsletter CCR Frontiers in Science. The newsletter is a tool for scientists within the Center to share information about their research with each other and with researchers at cancer centers around the country. Palladian writes some of the articles, substantively edits all the articles, and formats each issue.

Excellence Award
APEX Awards for Publication Excellence 2005

Excellence Award
Society for Technical Communication 2003

TriService Nursing Research Program
Palladian redesigned this website for military nurse researchers in 2004, making the site easier to use and automating much of the grant application process.

Website Hosting and Management

Palladian Partners meeting registration site
In addition to full-service meeting planning and management, Palladian provides secure, online meeting registration services. Recent examples include:

• NCI Symposium on Chromosome Biology
• FDA-NCI Workshop
• 7th National Forum on Biomedical Imaging in Oncology

Get Involved at NIH
Get Involved at NIH provides information about nationwide NIH-sponsored events and activities, new publications and resources for the public, health campaigns, and opportunities for public involvement. Palladian hosts this site and is responsible for ensuring content “freshness.” In addition, we developed the content management system for a monthly news bulletin found on this website. Since the introduction of the new system, the entire publication process—subscriptions, article submission, editing, scheduling, and posting—has been managed online.

The NIH Office of Community Liaison
Palladian maintains the content for this website, which informs the general public about NIH initiatives and activities on or near the NIH campus that impact or interest the local community.

The NIH Director's Council of Public Representatives (COPR)
COPR is a federal advisory committee, made up of members of the public, who advise NIH Director on issues related to public participation in NIH activities, outreach efforts, and other matters of public interest. Palladian hosts and maintains the content for the COPR website.