creative brochure design

got stuck in a rut with a design for a brochure for my nonprofit, one of the departments, and was trying to convince the contact in that dept we’re working with that we need to bring their brochure out of the box, make it more visually stunning, that right now in their brochure we’re speaking [...]

“show your impact” design contest for nonprofits

someone i work with forwarded me info about a contest sponsored by techsoup and adobe, called “show your impact.” my basic understanding, a nonprofit can submit examples of how it’s improved its workflow, increased retention of its message, bettered its web/video/print collateral, communication with its audience, thru use of adobe creative suite products. [...]

center for digital storytelling

the nonprofit i work for, someone forwarded to me a small film short one of our clients had made, and the video honestly made me cry. to hear the words, the voice, of someone who was homeless for 10 years, sleeping in cardboard boxes in the rain, and then cracking with pride when he [...]

event invitations that aren’t so traditional, but not so modern that they’d freak out old-fashioned clients

today i needed to design a new invitation for my nonprofit’s upcoming ceremony for clients graduating from our residential programs. typical invitations, historically, are very formal, black text on white, with the very old-school rsvp slip inside. my personal design style is very modern, colorful, want to break out of the box, but [...]

creative year-end gift ideas

my nonprofit has a big fundraising dinner at the end of the year, that a lot of our donors attend. i don’t feel that the gifts they’ve been giving the last few years (key chains, coffee mugs) are really appropriate, and that they couldn’t be better. so i was trying to think of [...]