Brewster Academy
Mount Holyoke College Art Museum
Agile Mind
Brewster Academy
Brewster Academy is an independent boarding high school in New Hampshire, comprised of 365 students from two dozen states and over 20 countries–a diverse and dynamic mix of learners and thinkers who value individual differences, work together, and challenge and support each other.
Our focus was to create recruitment materials that would reinforce the Brewster Academy brand, communicate the School’s mission to prepare diverse thinkers for lives of purpose, and attract an audience of prospective families. We created an immersive experience, visually and verbally, that captures Brewster’s distinctive culture, personality, and energy.
The new admissions system is anchored by the New Student Viewbook, a dynamic and modular 12-page piece designed to immerse prospective students and families into the Brewster experience. The viewbook conveys Brewster’s unique approach to team-based learning, student-centered development, and global education, using compelling storytelling, student-driven narratives, and high-impact visuals. It features customizable inserts tailored to individual family interests, ensuring a personalized admissions journey.
Our brand narrative is simple, and uncluttered, yet sophisticated and vibrant. The copy and design underscore Brewster’s values and innovative approach to teaching and learning. We enhanced the visual content by using dynamic, expressive photography interspersed with graphic ribbons of fun facts to reflect the joyful, diverse and collaborative nature of a Brewster education.
House of Possibilities
House of Possibilities (HOPe) provides individuals with disabilities and their families with a life-changing path to greater independence. AMN collaborated with HOPe’s leadership team to better express thier mission, vision and values. Anchored by the tagline we developed, See What Belonging Can Do, we created a suite of colorful brand-driven posters and icons commensurate with the joy, energy and hope inherent in the House of Possibilities.
House of Possibilities
House of Possibilities (HOPe) provides individuals with disabilities and their families with a life-changing path to greater independence. AMN collaborated with HOPe’s leadership team to extend their brand and narrative to a vision brochure targeted to potential donors. To introduce their retail presence, we developed the name and brand for HOPe Unlimited, a social enterprise supporting individuals with disabilities. The store serves to underscore HOPe’s mission, sell curated product developed by artisans and entrepreneurs with disabilities and promote employment opportunities for the disabled.
Museum of Science
Gritty, messy, confidently curious, fun, smart, approachable and contemporary-these words capture the tone of our design for the Museum of Science’s look book. We designed a visually rich, inspiring and unexpected brochure about the Museum that aspires to elicit wonder, curiosity, engagement and investment from a myriad of audiences. Our objective was to elevate the narrative of the Museum to show its depth, magic and rigor and develop a visual narrative which reclaims the Museum as a place that pushes boundaries, shapes the future and allows us to imagine a better world.
This look book won first place in the Institutional Category of the American Alliance of Museums Design Competitions as well as first place in the Annual Fund, Capital Campaign & Other Development Materials category at the New England Museum Association Annual Publications Award Competition.
Lincoln School Providence
Lincoln is an independent school in Providence where bold minds thrive. Students learn, achieve and explore with joyful abandon, embracing academic challenge, speaking their minds, and discovering who they are. They grow in confidence and character, and then delve into futures full of meaning and success at every level of their academic journey and beyond. We were honored to tell their story and bring it to life.
Belmont Hill School
Belmont Hill School educates boys in mind, body and spirit to develop men of good character. The Belmont Hill community encourages and challenges students to discover and pursue passions, seeks excellence, and face adversity with resilience. Critical thinking and creativity, teamwork and competition, hard work and reflection, and tradition and innovation are cultivated in each boy. We have been honored to tell this school’s story by creating their bi-annual magazines, their campaign communications, and their recruitment materials.
Imago Dei Fund
Organization
Imago Dei Fund is a faith-inspired grant making organization grounded in the conviction that each woman and man reflects the image of God.
Target audiences
Prospective grantees, partners + likeminded funders, current grantees, media + general public.
Assignment
Create impactful, emotive and disciplined brand messaging. Design a responsive website that presents IDF as a vessel that helps and inspires a community of organizations and individuals to change the world through philanthropy and through action. Develop an easy to use CMS using WordPress that allows for a non-technical user to easily update different types of content.
Technology Requirements:
- WordPress selected as CMS platform based on IDF team experience and ease of maintenance
- Responsive front-end development to support wide range of viewports from mobile to desktop
- Development of a dual-focus blog with opinion-based and news-based content
- Integration with MailChimp email marketing platform
- Integration of Google analytics
- Filterable database of over 150 grantee profiles
- Training for Imago Dei Fund Staff