Guiding students from alone known
We combat student loneliness by creating meaningful spaces of conversation, connection, and community.
Supporting 12,000+ students nationwide
Connection
is an
essential human need.
Listen.
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Original homepage hero
Archived copy of the live two-column hero as it stood before the orbit treatment shipped: copy on the left, collage on the right, orange 12,000+ sticker, Get Started / Give now. Faithful production markup — not a sketch.
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Collage as the piece
The collage becomes a large centered object. Headline, lede, buttons and badge sit smaller beneath it — the drawing is the hero, the type is the caption.
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Stacked column
Copy first, full width, at live display scale. The collage sits underneath as a wide landscape band — a vertical stack instead of a split.
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Type over collage
The collage is the field. Headline and actions overlay the left side, with a dark scrim so the white type still reads.
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Split reversed
The live two-column hero, mirrored: collage on the left, copy on the right.
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Full-bleed, copy in the corner
Collage fills the viewport. Type is a compact cluster parked in the bottom-left corner rather than a partner column.
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Editorial magazine
The headline spans the page under a hairline. Lede, buttons and badge sit in a narrow left rail; the collage takes the rest of the row.
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Asymmetric bleed
A slim copy rail aligned to the wrap. The collage is oversized and runs off the right edge of the viewport — not a 50/50 split.
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Copy left, collage as a strip
Text owns the column. The collage is cropped to a tall vertical sliver — a strip of the drawing, not a second panel.
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Pointer field
The collage is no longer a drawing in a column — it is a field. Photos and the yellow notecard scatter to the edges and drift with the cursor, depth-sorted. Copy sits in the quiet middle.
Connection is an essential human need.
Guiding students from alone known
We combat student loneliness by creating meaningful spaces of conversation, connection, and community.
Supporting 12,000+ students nationwide
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Broken type
The headline is an object, not a block of copy. “Alone” and “known” take the full measure; the arrow between them is a physical stroke of orange. Stamps of gathering photos sit as punctuation.
Guiding students from
alone
known
We combat student loneliness by creating meaningful spaces of conversation, connection, and community.
Supporting 12,000+ students nationwide
11
Filmstrip scrub
Copy first, then a horizontal strip of gathering photos. Move the pointer across it to scrub — like winding a roll of film, not sliding a carousel.
Guiding students from alone known
We combat student loneliness by creating meaningful spaces of conversation, connection, and community.
Supporting 12,000+ students nationwide
Move across the strip to scrub
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Sticker board
A cork locker door. The headline is an orange bumper sticker, the lede a yellow notecard, the photos Polaroids, the CTAs a stacked pair of pills. Everything is applied, nothing is typeset in a column.
Guiding students from alone → known
Connection is an essential human need.
We combat student loneliness by creating meaningful spaces of conversation, connection, and community.
Supporting 12,000+ students nationwide
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Yearbook spread
Two pages. Left is the “alone” year — four quiet portraits on ruled cream. Right is “known”: the banner photo, the headline, the ask. A gutter shadow binds them into one book.
Whisper · The year they sat alone
Whisper · The year they were known
Guiding students from alone known
We combat student loneliness by creating meaningful spaces of conversation, connection, and community.
Supporting 12,000+ students nationwide
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Notecard fan
Four cards in a stack — yellow, lavender, tan, orange — the same stock as the collage notecard. Hover fans them so the headline, lede, a photo, and the CTAs can all be read at once.
We combat student loneliness by creating meaningful spaces of conversation, connection, and community.
Supporting 12,000+ students nationwide
Hover the stack
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School marquee
The live school names become a pair of tickers that frame the headline — a movement running above and below the words, photos peeking on the right.
Guiding students from alone known
We combat student loneliness by creating meaningful spaces of conversation, connection, and community.
Supporting 12,000+ students nationwide
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Orbiting known
One word holds the center. Gathering photos orbit it and stay upright; the pointer tips the ring. The rest of the headline and the ask sit underneath, out of the way of the motion.
known
Guiding students from alone →
We combat student loneliness by creating meaningful spaces of conversation, connection, and community.
Supporting 12,000+ students nationwide
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Cut letters
Extreme negative space, then one word at billboard scale. The banner photo is cut into the letterforms of KNOWN — the destination is the picture.
Guiding students from alone →
known
We combat student loneliness by creating meaningful spaces of conversation, connection, and community.
Supporting 12,000+ students nationwide
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Text thread
The question every lonely student is asked, and almost never answers honestly. “How are you?” arrives first; the hero copy is the real reply. Photos sit beside the phone like attachments.
How are you?
Guiding students from alone → known
We combat student loneliness by creating meaningful spaces of conversation, connection, and community.
Supporting 12,000+ students nationwide
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Full collage orbit
The original gathering photos stay on the outer ring. The inner rings use the real die-cut pack from stickers/whisper-stickers-2025 — not the low-res stand-ins. One conversation card. The ask sits below, without a cream tray.
Guiding students from aloneknown
We combat student loneliness by creating meaningful spaces of conversation, connection, and community.