Croatan Institute is an independent, nonprofit research institute whose mission is to harness the power of investment for social good and ecological resilience by working at the critical nexus where sustainability, finance and economic development intersect. The institute’s activities address some of the most complex sustainability challenges of our time, often in close partnership with practitioners in the field and movements for social and environmental change. With the desire to make the institute’s print collateral progressive, vibrant and cool, Kompleks Creative was asked to design and layout the Divest-Invest Clean Fifteen publication and Wallace Global Fund Case Study.

Since then, we have provided logo design for their Organic Agriculture Revitalization Strategy (OARS) and graphic design of their retractable banner, among other Institute projects. When designing the OARS logo, we were tasked with creating a logo mark that could gain credibility among farmers, policy holders and educators.