ProYouth Summer Training Program Cover
ProYouth Summer Training Save The Date Poscard
The Job
Training Manual Design
This is one of my favorites from the vault and dates back to my after-school teaching days. This was a whole program for the 2012 Pro-Youth/HEART Summer Training session. The team that came up with that year’s theme of “Olympic Gold” wanted an ‘olympic’ feel to the poster and I drew inspiration from an Algerian postage stamp for the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles which had a flame-shaped dove atop the Olympic Torch. I was very much into origami (if you’ve seen Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex, you understand this), a fascination I sort of still have but I had started it a decade even before I ever thought of doing this. I can still do this in under a minute, but I would fold my tip dollars into hearts for servers at restaurants. The final shape of my origami dollars is what I traced for the heart on the dove’s beak.
This was the final product of nearly a week’s work of “origamifying” various versions of a dove before I landed on this one. I even had origami-themed “medals” all over the bottom, but the training team decided that it looked too confusing. It’s really a shame I no longer have my original working documents anymore because I would have loved to have a higher-resolution file of that “Save The Date” card on here as well.
You can view the entire program here. (Adobe Acrobat Reader may be needed)
The Client
Pro-Youth
Visalia, CA
The Gear
- Adobe Illustrator
- Adobe Photoshop
- Adobe InDesign