Our Services
Grant-Funded Projects
If your grant project needs a publication, a Web site, or a podcast—we can help you create it.
A dynamic communications product—such as a booklet, a Web site, or a podcast—is a key part of many grant-funded projects at a research university. The IU Office of Creative Services has the expertise and experience to help you design and create the product to communicate with your audience—whether it’s scientists in a specific field or a general audience worldwide. Let our award-winning art directors, writers, and Web developers make the communications part of your project dazzle.
We can help at two stages:
- For your grant proposal: We can help you formulate the communications portion of your grant proposal and provide estimates to create a Web site, publication, or podcast.
- Once your grant is funded: We can partner with you to create the communications products that achieve your goals.
To request an estimate or to discuss a funded project, contact:
Erika Knudson (for publications projects)
eknudson [at] indiana [dot] edu or 812-855-1167, or
Rebecca Salerno (for new media projects)
resalern [at] indiana [dot] edu or 812-855-0085.
Recent Projects
Return of the Cicadas
Booklet
Keith Clay in the Department of Biology received a $300,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to study the Brood X cicadas, whose emergence in the Eastern United States in 2004 has been called the largest insect emergence in the world. IU Creative Services prepared a 12-page, plus cover, four-color booklet to accompany a video on the Return of the Cicadas. The educational booklet describing the life cycle of Brood X cicadas was distributed to high school biology teachers around the nation.
Teaching with Primary Sources
Web Site
As part of a consortium, the Center on Congress at Indiana University manages a grant from the Library of Congress entitled “Teaching with Primary Sources.” The goal is to encourage students and teachers across America to use digitized primary source materials from the Library of Congress to learn about Congress, representative democracy, and citizen participation. IU Creative Services redesigned the site with separate portals for teachers and students, ensuring that the student portion appealed to the middle school and high school students who are a primary audience, along with teachers. Visit site >>
Human Nature
Exhibition Catalog
The School of Fine Arts (SoFA) Gallery received grant funding to mount a two-part exhibition in 2006 and 2007 titled Human Nature I and II, featuring artistic projects at the intersection of science and human nature. Art director Rick Faris worked collaboratively with Betsy Stirratt, director of the SoFA Gallery, to make sure the printed representations of the artworks were as true to the originals as possible. He used metallic inks to incorporate the technological aspects of many of the works. The catalog for this major exhibition was distributed around the world.
