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Dr Agresti

A die-cut brochure shaped like an ice lolly for Dr Daniele Agresti’s paediatric dentistry practice, designed for children and their parents.

Sector
Paediatric dentistry
Discipline
Editorial design, illustration
Deliverables
Die-cut brochure, illustrations, icon set, photographic layout
Dr Agresti

The strategic premise

Dr Daniele Agresti’s practice speaks to children between four and nine and to their parents, and it needed a useful tool, one that would explain prevention and dental care in a calm and slightly magical language, made of wooden toys, soft colours and everyday objects.

Moodboard, wooden toys and their colours

The first sketches

The sketches are in pencil, the doctor walking with the child, the mouth with its little teeth, the toothbrush and the objects of daily hygiene, the characters who then live on the pages.

Pencil sketches for the brochure

Development

The format comes from the die line, a folder that becomes an ice lolly when closed, so a child picks it up like a toy and not like an instruction leaflet; open, it spreads the content across a cross of panels.

The folder die line
The panel layout
Illustrations and icons

The system

The system brings together line icons for oral hygiene, soft and legible typefaces, a palette of light blue, aqua and coral, and cut-out photographs of the doctor, who moves through the pages like a character.

The typefaces
Cut-out photographs of the doctor
The open layout, outside and inside

Applications

The printed brochure opens like a game, panel after panel, and gives parents information on prevention in the same tone it uses with their children; beside the brochure appears the soft toy the doctor uses in the practice to reassure young patients.

The open brochure in hand
The brochure closed and open
The inside panel with the little teeth

The outcome

The result is a tool a child wants to hold, and for that very reason it also brings parents the information that really matters.

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