One of our perpetual challenges: it’s hard to describe what Frontier does. Every company’s challenges and our solutions to address them are highly unique. We sell our creative approach, not off-the-shelf products.
Meanwhile, the last couple of decades in corporate communications have meant every deck, every one-pager is expected to have charts, colors, icons, and other means of data visualization to ostensibly aid in comprehension (but in actuality to keep people from getting bored). We attempted to keep our comms both academic and friendly—illustrating broad corporate concepts such as collaboration or influence with simple iconography and stock photography. But the results always felt hackneyed, imprecise, and dumbed-down with certain stock photo models faces everywhere we looked.