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Look Outward, Inquire Within

Regis University was looking to increase their adult education enrollment. We wanted to emphasize that as a Jesuit university, Regis can help you to transform yourself as well as the world around you.

We chose a physical metaphor for transformation: origami. In print media, the reader can cut out the square picture of the "problem," such a pollution or a nurse shortage, and fold it –€“ transform it –“ into a symbol that relates to a specific program or the general all-encompassing metaphor for change: the butterfly.

To get to the instructions, the reader is driven to the program's landing page where he or she can download both the ad itself and the instructions for the origami, as well as sign up for more information.

The web experience echoed the same sentiments and pushed the origami/transformation idea further with copy and powerful messaging in regards to enrollment and being an agent of change in your community. It stood itself as its own experience, but coalesced easily with the print pieces, including brochures, newspaper ads, magazine ads and promotional material from educational expos.
ONLINE DISPLAY ADS

The online ads also incorporated the look of origami and solving issues by transforming your world. The animation mimicked the folding in origami and the end frame displayed along with the CTA the resultant origami figure.
General OLA
Education-focued OLA



Educational Expo Booth Pieces

For education expos, we created our own printed origami paper and set them up at the booth in piles. Some butterflies were already constructed, and the attendants were asked to, if idle, keep creating the butterflies. This drew prospective students to the booth out of curiosity, and the attendants were able to instruct the prospects in the art of transformation: both paper-wise with the origami, as well as the transformation of themselves and the world around them.
Instructions for creating an origami dove model.
Instructions for creating an origami owl model.
Instructions for creating an origami computer mouse model.
All origami was created by hand and crease marks noted. Instructions were tested as well! I know a whole lot more about paper folding than I ever thought I would after this project!
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Look Outward, Inquire Within
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Look Outward, Inquire Within

Look Outward, Inquire Within is an integrated campaign for adult education programs focused on the idea of transformation: students transform the Read More

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