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Making giving feel like family.

Frontline Partners wanted supporters to feel like family. We created a warm identity and a modular journal system that bring stories closer and give the team a consistent foundation for every new issue.

Project scope

Brand Identity · Logo Development · Brand Starter Guidelines · Pitch + Presentation Decks · Editorial Identity · The Frontline Journal Master Template · Modular Layout System · Template Guidelines

The First Conversation

The Vision

“We want the people who stand with the persecuted church to feel like family. Can you help us give that feeling an identity and a journal they’ll want to keep?”

The Approach

Made to feel human.

We started with what Frontline Partners refused to be: one more donate button.

Online giving has taught people to expect the look of a bank. It’s clean, efficient, and forgettable, with generosity reduced to a confirmation number. The alternative is often the opposite extreme, heavy with urgency and light on dignity. Sterile or sensational, rarely human.

So we reached for the tactile over the techy: textures you could almost touch, marks that look made by hand, and a brand that feels less like a platform and more like a letter from someone you love.

What We Delivered

A mark with meaning.

Frontline Partners now looks like what it is, a family, not a fund.

The identity began with the logo. We explored how a mark could carry warmth, witness, and the feeling of something passed hand to hand. The family-tree-inspired stamp held family, lineage, connection, and permanence in one mark. Paired with the literary wordmark and grounded color system, it gave the team an identity that feels personal without becoming institutional, with starter guidelines to carry it from day one.

The Color System

The Outcome

A journal built for connection.

Then we gave that identity a place to tell its stories. The Frontline Journal is a quarterly publication built entirely on the brand we’d made. Cormorant Garamond gives headlines their gravity. Crimson Text holds the testimonies and the prayers, the words meant to be read slowly. A handwritten face appears only when a human voice needs to break through the page. The cover gives GCR and Frontline Partners each their rightful place.

And we made it theirs to keep. Beneath every spread sits a modular system of parent pages, so the team can choose a layout rather than design one. A visual layout menu shows every option at a glance. A guidelines document walks through building a new issue, step by step. We delivered it clean and imageless, a frame waiting for the next story, with one extra cover they didn’t ask for, because someday they’ll need it.

It’s a brand that reminds every supporter they aren’t just sending something. They’re part of someone’s family.

In Their Words

“New product line logo and magazine, both projects were done with a high, unique design level of expertise.”
Frontline Partners, a program of Global Christian Relief

Some photography featured in this case study is courtesy of Global Christian Relief, and some imagery is sourced from unsplash.com. All imagery is shown here for portfolio presentation only.

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