Elemental media

Great visions face great challenges. Josiah Venture has been changing the lives of young people in Eastern Europe for 15 years now. In the next three years this team wants to double their impact and plans to raise $10 million in order to do so. Our job was to create a design for their 2×3 Campaign tour. This included the creation of this logo, the design of all PR materials and a website.

Josiah Venture is a nonprofit organization with a couple of hundred employees and when the time came to revamp their corporate look we were asked to get on board. This was probably our largest project in 2008. It was a challenging task to redesign our own earlier design. The project started with a visual concept proposal, then we designed more than two dozen PR-related products, created a new skin for JV’s intranet and continue to design personalized prints for employees as an ongoing service.

Banská Štiavnica – today part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site – was originally inhabited by the Celts and grew into a royal town with churches, Renaissance palaces, elegant squares and castles. In recent times the town has undergone restoration and our team was given the opportunity to create a marketing campaign for this apartment residence.

This job included: visual idea, logo, slogans, website design and programming, promotional brochure, copy for the website and a brochure in English and Slovak.

Global Youth Initiative organized a gathering of a couple of hundred youth workers from all around the world in Jerusalem. The objective was to reconnect with the roots of the Christian faith and our job was to facilitate this experience graphically on all printed materials and screens. Here you can see the tourist guide-format GYI booklet, together with a 9×3 meter banner.

A fun project for Josiah Venture’s kids ministry. Our goal was to make a photo yearbook to preserve memories.

Credo is a real estate developer who was building an exclusive villa in the historical and cultural center of Slovakia and was having a hard time selling it. Our job was to come up with a logo, marketing slogan and brochure that would put its high quality and style on display. Our photographer Matej took a field trip to Trnava and came back with an idea.

The Cube is an apartment building currently being consstructed in Žilina (2009). This was one of those projects where our team played the role of a marketing agency. We were asked to take the marketing study and create an entire campaign for a given audience. We ended up taking the name (Cube) and creating six different marketing slogans, visuals, photography, typography and logo, as well as changing the color scheme of the building in consultation with the architect and designed the website and print materials, including a presentation for investors. The building sold to an investor before there was even a building permit based purely on the campaign itself.

JV Elements is a resource DVD providing a curriculum for groups who want to study the basics of the Christian faith in a non-traditional (cool) way. For us at Elemental Media this included shooting and editing 18 short films all over the region and then creating a design and producing a DVD video and DVD-ROM content with Flash navigation, as well as a student workbook and leader’s guide, all this localized into 12 Central and Eastern European languages. The project took over a thousand hours of work and 18 months of our lives. And we could almost say we loved every minute of it.

Elements is a series of 10 small group meetings on the topic of Christianity. It is designed for new, young believers to lay a foundation for their newly-discovered faith. So the meeting needs to be deep, but interesting. As should the workbook.