GVO Brochure Series
GVO Brochure Series
GVO Brochure Series

GVO Brochure Series

Cahan & Associates, San Francisco, California, 1996

Description

Our charge from GVO, an industrial design firm, was to create a glossy, perfect-bound 32-page brochure with nice pictures of their product design to get CEOs interested in the firm. After extensive research, we found out that GVO employed an ethnographic approach that focused on how people live in the real world, doing everyday things like cleaning toilets and washing dishes. This approach runs counter to other industrial design firms intent on creating beautiful products to attract consumer interest. We decided to go beyond the brochure idea, and created a five-tier direct marketing campaign the size of the Wall Street Journal—a size and medium familiar to CEOs. Each week, the target audience of CEOs would get a different brochure delivered in a brightly colored plastic bag, with a different message on what it takes to create breakthrough products.

Collections: Design of Understanding 2
Repository: Denver Art Museum
Discipline: Information design
Format: Brochure, Promotion

Credits

Design firm
Cahan & Associates
Art director
Bill Cahan
Designers
Bob Dinetz, Kevin Roberson
Illustrators
Tom Barlow, Gary Baseman, John Craig, Nick Dewar, Bob Dinetz, Mark Todd
Photographers
Ken Probst, Holly Stewart, Others
Typefaces
Caslon, IBM Selectric, News Gothic
Copywriters
Danny Altman, Stefanie Marlis
Paper
Simpson Opaque 50# Smooth Book
Printer
Graphic Arts Center
Client
GVO
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