Magazine cover concept help: financial literacy + disability
September 16, 2010 10:01 AM Subscribe
Magazine cover design meeting in 3 hours and I'm stuck. We're a cross-disability magazine and the next theme is roughly "asset building and financial literacy". Our message: not as scary as it sounds.
Please help me brainstorm image ideas, hive mind.
What we don't want: images of piggy banks or money
What we do want: something inviting so people pick it up
Who we are: cross-disability magazine that's been publishing for over 30 years
Content of this magazine will include: people with all types of disabilities (mental health, physical, learning, developmental, etc) to accessing plain-language information about "asset building" and financial literacy. Eg: savings accounts, Registered Disability Savings Plans (we're in Canada), and how to build non-tangible assets through community networks (trading, exchanges, swaps, etc), what community resources exist, etc.
If you're curious, see previous issues online here:
http://www.bccpd.bc.ca/transitionlive.htm
Thanks for any help!
Long time reader,
Sam
Please help me brainstorm image ideas, hive mind.
What we don't want: images of piggy banks or money
What we do want: something inviting so people pick it up
Who we are: cross-disability magazine that's been publishing for over 30 years
Content of this magazine will include: people with all types of disabilities (mental health, physical, learning, developmental, etc) to accessing plain-language information about "asset building" and financial literacy. Eg: savings accounts, Registered Disability Savings Plans (we're in Canada), and how to build non-tangible assets through community networks (trading, exchanges, swaps, etc), what community resources exist, etc.
If you're curious, see previous issues online here:
http://www.bccpd.bc.ca/transitionlive.htm
Thanks for any help!
Long time reader,
Sam
Have you done thumbnails? What'd you come up with?
What we don't want: images of piggy banks or money
Think about what money buys both in terms of physical goods and mental state. There should be plenty of options there.
Who are your local photographers? Have you talked to them about this?
posted by nomadicink at 10:16 AM on September 16, 2010
What we don't want: images of piggy banks or money
Think about what money buys both in terms of physical goods and mental state. There should be plenty of options there.
Who are your local photographers? Have you talked to them about this?
posted by nomadicink at 10:16 AM on September 16, 2010
View from the back of an empty classroom, with most of the focus on the chalkboard. Hand-written on the board is your message: "Financial literacy: It's not as hard as you think."
Elsewhere on the cover, floating text: "Go back to school with our articles on:", then follow with a bulleted list of specific topics.
posted by jbickers at 10:33 AM on September 16, 2010
Elsewhere on the cover, floating text: "Go back to school with our articles on:", then follow with a bulleted list of specific topics.
posted by jbickers at 10:33 AM on September 16, 2010
Wizard of Oz theme: Dorothy is now in a wheelchair, being pushed by (let us say) the Tin Man along the Yellow Brick Road, to see the Financial Wizard for help in managing her money.
posted by grizzled at 10:33 AM on September 16, 2010
posted by grizzled at 10:33 AM on September 16, 2010
A friend who works with a variety of learning disabled says he would be very happy if his students would be able to handle a check book in the future. So a check book?
posted by Gungho at 11:07 AM on September 16, 2010
posted by Gungho at 11:07 AM on September 16, 2010
Illustration of a person sitting atop a very tall, precarious pile of assets (could be money, but also a car, a house, expensive household products).
posted by lunalaguna at 12:18 PM on September 16, 2010 [1 favorite]
posted by lunalaguna at 12:18 PM on September 16, 2010 [1 favorite]
A young adult in a wheelchair wheeling up a hill that's layered over a stock chart.
posted by bravowhiskey at 1:39 PM on September 16, 2010
posted by bravowhiskey at 1:39 PM on September 16, 2010
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posted by TooFewShoes at 10:10 AM on September 16, 2010