Strategy/Writing/Design | Connecting your message with your markets
In Indiana’s Decatur County, the Greensburg area serves as a focus of travel and tourism. The 501(c)(6) non-profit Decatur County Visitors and Recreation Commission needed a headquarters location with enough programming space, parking, and public amenities to host its own functions and offer a home for other, smaller non-profits. A $1.5 million capital campaign sought … Continued…
The Alliance of the American Dental Association is a national organization of dental spouses who support their life partners’ profession with community-education and legislative initiatives. AADA launched an outreach program called Senior Smiles, targeting the dental health of older adults. I created the campaign logo, along with a brochure designed to fit into kits of … Continued…
For Orthopaedics Indianapolis and its Eastern-Indiana practice, I wrote a pair of ads that used allover background images to showcase its clinicians’ expertise with routine injuries and those resulting from athletic competition. The athletic-themed ad targeted families. The more-general ad equated orthopaedic excellence with the artistic performance of a symphony orchestra. View or download the … Continued…
This product photograph accompanied an article in the quarterly magazine published by the Indiana Dental Association. The original image cropped off part of the top and one end of the sealed package, which set at an odd angle against a gradient background. I removed all four components of the image from the background, rebuilt the … Continued…
Many not-for-profit organizations, especially those that provide vital social services to otherwise under-served populations, stand or fall on their infrastructure’s ability to support their programming. When Boone County Senior Services outgrew its longtime headquarters in Lebanon, Indiana, its not-for-profit foundation embarked on a capital campaign aimed at raising the $2,000,000 necessary to build a new … Continued…
For the orthopaedic specialists at SCORE, I wrote a series of ads that focused on individual sports, including baseball, basketball, football, and soccer. Each ad used an exaggerated statistic to emphasize the difficulty of competing while injured: a 700-foot distance to hit a home run, a 20-foot high basketball rim, an opposing football team with … Continued…
At Crown Hill Cemetery, the third-largest non-governmental cemetery in the U.S., one of its most famous of its memorials honors Mary Ella McGinnis, who died on August 6, 1875, at the age of six. If you stand in just the right spot at the right time of day, her monument appears to return your gaze. … Continued…
Orthopaedics Indianapolis wanted to promote its services directly to employers and parents. I wrote two ads that used original illustrations based on the character of Humpty Dumpty, the fallen egg in need of rescue. One message promoted the need for expert orthopaedic care to resolve workplace injuries. The other, addressing families with athletic youngsters, pointed … Continued…