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Design Category
Corporate communications design, 2002
Design firm
SamataMason (Dundee, Illinois)
Collection
(2003) AIGA 365: 24

Description

The goal of the project was to build awareness of and raise funds for Evan’s Life Foundation—a nonprofit organization that gives aid to children at risk—in a fresh and different way. In the past we had created and distributed a typical annual newsletter, featuring grant recipients and their stories, but this year I felt it was time to change the format and create a marketing piece that came closer to representing the perilous truth about these kids. We chose one child to symbolically represent the type of children we work with, and, using a journalistic style of photography, we set out to shoot a day in the life of Kevin. From concept to completion, it took us six weeks. The response was just as I had hoped: no one who reads this piece from cover to cover can help but be affected by the message and have his or her consciousness raised.

Credits
Creative director: Pat Samata
Designer: Steve Kull
Photographer: Emma Rodewald
Production director: Lynne Nagel
Production coordinator: Ann Teson
Writer: Tura Cottingham
Typefaces: Garamond 3, Swiss 721 Bold Condensed
Printer: Blanchette Press
Paper: Domtar Luna Matte 60 lb. Text
Client: Evan’s Life Foundation