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Wayfinder Family Services

Unifying an expanding organization

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A growing human services agency needed a cohesive identity that would honor where they’ve been and embrace where they’re headed.

Growth led an organization into a wider range of services.

Junior Blind of America began in Los Angeles in 1953 as a recreational program for children with vision loss. Today, it’s a powerful organization with a statewide presence and deep expertise in programmatic areas that extend far beyond visual impairment including special needs, foster care, adoption, and mental health services. The “Junior Blind” identity was an important part of their history, but it no longer represented the organization they had become.

Building on history while making room to tell a larger story.

Junior Blind has long been known as the go-to place for programs for the visually impaired in California. To be effective, a new identity had to appeal to clients and donors with connections to issues around vision loss, as well as to new audiences who were more familiar with them for other areas of their work.

A name that fits—with flexibility

Big Duck’s creative process quickly surfaced the “wayfinder” as a powerful metaphor for their diverse services—a concept that spoke to their individualized approach, to their emphasis on partnership and empowerment, and to their work with the visually impaired. “Wayfinder Family Services” is both a name and the basis for a holistic brand identity that can grow with them for many years to come.

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The final Wayfinder identity expresses their hands-on support and communicates their emphasis on partnership with the people they serve.
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Along the way, we developed a variety of names and visual identities, inspired by their unique approach to helping people facing great challenges to thrive on their own terms.
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We explored a range of color options for their final symbol and wordmark—landing on the warmth and optimism of a yellow, orange, and red palette.
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Their final tagline choice is a powerful promise—one that Wayfinder exemplifies in their work every day.
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Big Duck gave the Wayfinder team the tools and guidance to apply all pieces of their visual identity (color, type, photography, etc.) consistently.
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Wayfinder’s new mission statement unifies their work in clear, compelling language. It is one of several messaging components Big Duck developed.
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Decades of growth had led to a messy array of distinct brands, which we helped to organize and align with a customized brand architecture strategy, shown here in visual mockups.

Together, we’ll reach new heights.

The Wayfinder Family Services brand embraces the full  scope of their expanding work—vision loss, special needs, foster services, and more—in a unified and powerful voice.

Big Duck are the buy-in experts. Not by convincing stakeholders at the end of the process, but by involving them in healthy conversations every step of the way. Encouraging everyone to express their opinions and concerns allowed for a productive discussion that yielded a strong identity—one that all agreed embodies who our organization is and where it’s going.

— Ed Chambliss, Branding Committee Chair, Wayfinder Family Services

As a result

Wayfinder Family Services is communicating with one voice, connecting the dots between all aspects of their work and building deeper relationships with old and new audiences.

 

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We clarify brand strategy and develop powerful brand assets to help you speak and write in more compelling ways.

• Audience research
• Brand strategy
• Naming and tagline
• Logo and visual system
• Brand architecture strategy and solutions
• Vision, mission, and values statements
• Key messages, boilerplate, and elevator pitch
• Issue area narrative analysis and development
• Rollout plan
• Digital brand guide
• Marketing collateral
• Website consulting

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