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.
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