Zidao believes that small and independent means flexible. We are at the center of a circle of very experienced regular partners. We can offer you dynamic solutions tailored for you.

Our expertise: creating publishing solutions that help you reach your international audiences.

The right medium, format, look and feel.

Most importantly, the message you want to share.

Ellen Wallace, director…
… founded Zidao in 2002. She was previously head of corporate relations for the International Baccalaureate Organization, a leading group in the field of international education. She has worked as professor of business communications, editor in educational publishing and public relations manager and consultant in health care in the US, translator and editor in Paris, France.

For 15 years she was a journalist, reporting and writing from more than 30 countries. Her published work has appeared in more than 100 publications in nine countries, including (on a regular basis) Time, People, Business Week, Euromoney, The International Herald Tribune, The European, European Travel & Life, France Discovery Guide. As a journalist or public relations consultant she has studied or worked with more than 2,000 companies throughout the world.

Ellen Wallace's Blogs:
Personal

For the Tribune de Geneve, the Geneva, Switzerland French language daily, a blog in English

GenevaLunch, The Lake Geneva region's online news source

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Liam Bates, webmaster, for The World at School. student (languages English, French, Chinese), special interests: film production, wushu (martial arts) and Chinese language. In addition to his work for Zidao, he currently manages Bridges to China, a foreign study program to China.

Mary Tiegreen, graphic designer, New York. American (languages English, French, Italian) Mary has been working with Ellen Wallace for three years as art director on a variety of projects for an international education group. More recently, for Zidao, she has taken on responsibility as art director, with work including web development for a Swiss-based executive search firm.

In addition to her Zidao responsibilities, she has co-authored and designed several books on such diverse subjects as women explorers, golf, and a magical French farmhouse named Pistoulet. Her design background covers the areas of publishing, corporate communications, public relations and marketing, web design, packaging and product development.

Partial client list: Godiva Chocolates, Bertelsmann Media Worldwide, La Martiniere Group, The World Water Forum, United Nations Capital Development Fund, Credit Suisse, Bloomingdales, Griffin Public Relations and Marketing, Aiwa America, The Irish Trade Board, Pernod, JBL Professional, Arri, Ampex, AKG Acoustics, ImaginOn Inernet Television and The Jimmy Webb Music Company.

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Roger Pring, graphic designer, London. Roger is a graphics specialist, book designer, author, photographer and teacher. Working for clients in the field of health education, he has gained a considerable reputation in the resolution of complex statistical information for print and screen.

He was project editor on the best-selling Photographer's Handbook (Dorling Kindersley), designer of the Kodak Workshop series of photography books and author of www.type (Watson Guptill; Cassell), www.color (Watson Guptill; Cassell) and Photoshop Type Effects Visual Encyclopedia (New Riders). He is designer and publisher of The Wine and Spirit Diary and former lecturer in Information Design at the London College of Printing.

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Dave Green, Brightgreen Design, graphic design and advertising, New York. Brightgreen Design is a full-service design and marketing communications firm with strong corporate experience in the US. Dave, principal and creative director for Brightgreen, has developed an uncanny instinct for understanding each client's needs. By combining this creative intuition with a solid set of design principles, Dave delivers design solutions that marry strategic need and tone, with a fresh, unexpected approach.

A partial list of clients: Allstate, Centex Homes, Champion International, Delaware Investments, Health Science Communications, Laura Ashley, Lucent Technologies, the Movado Group, the NBA, NetJets, Salomon Smith Barney, Sealand, Securitas, State Farm, TIAA-CREF, the Travelers, the United Nations, and Wyeth-Ayerst, as well as smaller, not-for-profit organizations such as The Children's Shakespeare Theatre, the Liguria Study Center and Wings Trust.

http://www.brightgreendesign.com/who/index.htm

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Emily Emerson, writer and editor, media programmes, Angers, France. Emily Emerson is an American writer, editor and translator who moved to France for a year in 1979 and can’t seem to leave. A former editor at the International Herald Tribune newspaper, she has produced documentary films and served as executive editor for a travel-based web site for America Online.

She is the editor of IB World, the magazine of the International Baccalaureate Organization, and translates texts for LVMH, Hermès, Maison de France (the French tourist board), Van Cleef & Arpels, the city of Angers, France, and other clients.

She has published articles in a number of magazines and newspapers, including reports on the economies of developing countries and other business issues for the International Herald Tribune, Newsday (New York), Global Business Press (London), Big Media Group (Brussels), and American Business Press (New York). She has also written several travel articles and guides, including the Access Guide to France Wine Country (HarperCollins, New York) and Fodor’s Around Paris with Kids. Emily now lives and works in a 15th century farmhouse in the Loire Valley.

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Cathy Nolan, researcher, editor, media programmes. Paris, France. Graduate of Harvard Divinity School in the US, former Paris correspondent for America’s top-selling People magazine, and on the Unesco press staff in Paris, now reporting for Art and Auction among others.

Evelyn and David Ralph, proofreaders, Geneva, Switzerland. Expertise in international labor, banking, precious metals.

In addition, Zidao works regularly with translators (agencies and individuals), web development companies and printers in several countries. It has developed a network of specialists in other areas, such as web auditing and corporate internal communications.

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