Project
SLED CPR
Overview
The SLED CPR (State, Local, and Education Cyber Priorities Report) was an annual industry report, delivered in a magazine style format. Its purpose was to inform and spark discussion within the non-federal public sector market on the advances happening in cybersecurity protection. Additionally, the report was meant to forecast what was coming for the year ahead for new attack techniques and collaborative initiatives.
Challenge
While these types of reports are not uncommon in the cybersecurity industry, few focus on the non-federal public sector and the risks they face. This was the first time NuHarbor Security had attempted a promotional item of this size and scope. NuHarbor had also gathered contributions from partner businesses and experienced leaders in the state, local, and education space. In theory, this distributed the workload. In practice, it meant project management duties added to the task of designing the document.
Summary
Role
Graphic Designer, Creative Director
Responsibilities
Collaborate with stakeholders to create designs that meet their goals and objectives, Meet tight deadlines while maintaining attention to detail, Create infographics and source licensable images, Optimize printed and digital version for their different needs
Collaborators
Additional Designer (2023-2024 edition only), Executive Leadership. Public Sector Cybersecurity Experts, Marketing Team
Deliverables
Printed magazines, Interactive PDF for online readers
Approach
Printed magazines, Interactive PDF
When inheriting another designers work, I always like to meet with the previous designer to discussion intention, blockers, and what needs to be unchanged. I then have a similar meeting with the engineering team to see if they can spot any issues for developement cycles. In this case, meeting with engineering revealed that several data points wouldn’t be available for the first iteration. I removed those from the design and let the product owner know so that it wouldn’t be a surprise and also so that it could be added to the backlog and prioritized appropriately.
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Project
SLED CPR
Overview
The SLED CPR (State, Local, and Education Cyber Priorities Report) was an annual industry report, delivered in a magazine style format. Its purpose was to inform and spark discussion within the non-federal public sector market on the advances happening in cybersecurity protection. Additionally, the report was meant to forecast what was coming for the year ahead for new attack techniques and collaborative initiatives.
Challenge
While these types of reports are not uncommon in the cybersecurity industry, few focus on the non-federal public sector and the risks they face. This was the first time NuHarbor Security had attempted a promotional item of this size and scope. NuHarbor had also gathered contributions from partner businesses and experienced leaders in the state, local, and education space. In theory, this distributed the workload. In practice, it meant project management duties added to the task of designing the document.
Summary
Role
Graphic Designer, Creative Director
Responsibilities
Collaborate with stakeholders to create designs that meet their goals and objectives, Meet tight deadlines while maintaining attention to detail, Create infographics and source licensable images, Optimize printed and digital version for their different needs
Collaborators
Additional Designer (2023-2024 edition only), Executive Leadership. Public Sector Cybersecurity Experts, Marketing Team
Deliverables
Printed magazines, Interactive PDF for online readers
Approach
Printed magazines, Interactive PDF
When inheriting another designers work, I always like to meet with the previous designer to discussion intention, blockers, and what needs to be unchanged. I then have a similar meeting with the engineering team to see if they can spot any issues for developement cycles. In this case, meeting with engineering revealed that several data points wouldn’t be available for the first iteration. I removed those from the design and let the product owner know so that it wouldn’t be a surprise and also so that it could be added to the backlog and prioritized appropriately.
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CONTACT
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g.w.pouliot@gmail.comSOCIAL
Project
SLED CPR
Overview
The SLED CPR (State, Local, and Education Cyber Priorities Report) was an annual industry report, delivered in a magazine style format. Its purpose was to inform and spark discussion within the non-federal public sector market on the advances happening in cybersecurity protection. Additionally, the report was meant to forecast what was coming for the year ahead for new attack techniques and collaborative initiatives.
Challenge
While these types of reports are not uncommon in the cybersecurity industry, few focus on the non-federal public sector and the risks they face. This was the first time NuHarbor Security had attempted a promotional item of this size and scope. NuHarbor had also gathered contributions from partner businesses and experienced leaders in the state, local, and education space. In theory, this distributed the workload. In practice, it meant project management duties added to the task of designing the document.
Summary
Role
Graphic Designer, Creative Director
Responsibilities
Collaborate with stakeholders to create designs that meet their goals and objectives, Meet tight deadlines while maintaining attention to detail, Create infographics and source licensable images, Optimize printed and digital version for their different needs
Collaborators
Additional Designer (2023-2024 edition only), Executive Leadership. Public Sector Cybersecurity Experts, Marketing Team
Deliverables
Printed magazines, Interactive PDF for online readers
Approach
Printed magazines, Interactive PDF
As the article materials began to roll in, I laid out a few pages as a style sample for the remainder of the document. Through discussions and revisions, the NuHarbor team came to a consensus on an aesthetic direction. Layout of the magazine continued with regular check-ins. When all the content had been placed appropriately, I duplicated the file so that each format could do what it does best. The color formatting was changed for paper printing and the page count was finessed to have an even number of pages. The digital version got links between articles and bibliographical sources, links to partner organizations, and email contact links.
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