San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
2008 Festival branding and promotion
The festival's identity is a distillation of disparate cultural and symbolic strands. Rather than fall back on Jewish clichés and using film stills to drive the visual story, we instead pulled loose one of the two triangles from the Jewish star, abstracted it further by making it isosceles instead of equilateral, and the used this basic shape as the modular unit to create a mosaic that hints at both the multi-faceted nature of Jewish culture and the quilted ties that binds all Jews together.
For the second straight year Volume was hired to create the identity and campaign for the SF Jewish Film Festival. The visual identity provided distinct and captivating promotional opportunities and was a conversation starter throughout the festival, while overall ticket sales rose 14% from the previous year.
TESTIMONIAL
"The work you've done this year is glorious. After months of analyzing and manipulating the design elements for one thing and another, I grew blind to its magnificence. Seeing the poster under the bright lights on stage yesterday at the press conference made me fall in love with it all over again. It is truly incredible and makes the SFJFF look like a first rate operation, something to aspire to."
Elizabeth Greene, SFJFF Administrative Director
RECOGNITION
CCA / This Is Not Real Design exhibition


