We know your name

A three-branch credit union going up against the banks with the one thing the banks cannot buy: being small.

Social

Client
Northbank Credit Union
Year
2024
Channels
social, 6-sheet
Line
We know your name. It is a small building.

Northbank has three branches and eleven thousand members. The banks around it had budgets, so we made smallness the point: the brass nameplate with nothing on it is the one they put your name on. Social led, with a 6-sheet run within four blocks of each branch and nowhere else. New member sign-ups doubled in the six months after launch.

Credits: creative direction and copy Rosa Delgado, art direction Kwame Boateng, strategy Tessa Whitmore, production and media Luis Ferreira.

04 northbank post
04 northbank kv
Poster version, branch windows.
04 northbank billboard
The one billboard, opposite the biggest bank in town.
04 northbank shelter
6-sheet, four blocks from the Fishtown branch.
04 northbank spread
Print run in the neighborhood papers.
04 northbank story
Story frame, teller-window green.
04 northbank still
Still from the fifteen: a form under the glass.
04 northbank detail
Detail. The plate is blank until it is yours.