I've had the opportunity to work with the AHA on their fundraising gala materials on a few occasions. Despite being pro bono, we were always able to find excellent artists and vendors to lend their expertise to the project — one of the distinct advantages of the client being such a well know and respected organization. 

For the "Hero in All of Us" campaign I was able to enlist the services of  two artists I'd long admired from afar: Italian illustrator Gloria Pizzilli, and Brooklyn-based typographers Volume One.  

Working with Taylor James out of London, we produced a fully animated version of our book that played to a packed crowd on the deck of the retired aircraft carrier Intrepid, the venue for the event. And our Cannes Lion case study was hand animated by our intrepid art director Matt Holt. 

Although the gala itself is considered to be a black tie event, we decided to take the theme to it's logical extreme and create a post-modern deconstruction of golden age comic books — the primary colors, giant format, and dynamic splash pages — gave our materials a bold look unlike anything the client or their donors had seen before.