Harvard School of Public Health
Boston, MA
 
"Health Without Boundaries: Agendas for Action" is a new 40-page publication with an 8-page embossed cover designed and produced by CFL. It depicts the school's achievements under Dean Barry R. Bloom and sets forth the challenges confronting public health as he returns to teaching and research. Created in collaboration with writer Madeline Drexler, we worked closely with Dean Bloom, Chief of Staff Alix Smullin, Assistant Dean for Communications Robin Herman, and Senior Director for Development Marketing and Planning Julie Rafferty. Distribution of 22,500 copies was to the entire HSPH mailing list, the greater Harvard University community and graduation ceremony attendees.
 
Executive Producer/Director Jonathan Barkan supervised three full-time HSPH communications staff members as they produced a new employee orientation video. His role was to provide creative and technical direction, project management training and oversight, and producer/director mentoring. The success of this engagement encouraged Barkan to suggest similar consulting support to other universities and institutions to improve the quality of in-house video production.

Hawaiian Cloud Forest Coffee
Honokaa, The Big Island, Hawaii
 
Producer/Director Jonathan Barkan visited and admired this organic coffee farm on the slopes of Hawaii's Mauna Kea volcano. Totally off-the-grid utilizing solar power, farmers Hillery and Erik Gunther are expanding and simultaneously restoring indigenous Koa trees and habitat for endangered bird species. We are exploring funding and creative treatments for a documentary about this, and perhaps other, successful models of sustainable organic farming.
 

Massachusetts 9/11 Fund
Boston, MA
 
We have consulted with the Fund's 3-person staff and the Family Advisory Committee to plan and manage the 2008 and 2009 State House Commemoration events. We created a mixed-media video centerpiece to memorialize the Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Rhode Island residents lost on 9/11. This is an important opportunity to participate in the difficult and long-term healing process that we and 9/11 families share. The Commemoration features a number of live music performances and a collection of readings that we organize and produce.
 

Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center
Boston, MA
 
"Preparing for Chemotherapy at the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center"
 
This 20-minute DVD is designed for all MGH chemotherapy patients, their families and friends. It features physician, staff and patient interviews, and location video at the MGH, all in an effort to reduce anxiety and respond to frequent questions and concerns. Distribution includes the initial delivery of 10,000 DVDs to date, on-demand playback over the hospital's video network and web streaming. We also produced and delivered a foreign language version DVD in Mandarin Chinese, Spanish and Portuguese.
 

National Scoliosis Foundation
Stoughton, MA
 
We completed a new classroom video that will annually introduce school spinal screening to some 18 million 5th graders nationwide. Sponsored by DePuy, a Johnson & Johnson Company, we produced the Foundation's first video in 1983. We are planning to produce three additional videos that are designed for patients and their families.
 

The Naylor Collection
Chestnut Hill, MA
 
We were retained to sell the world's largest and finest private collection on the history of photography. Consisting of some 31,000 cameras, images and ephemera, with an extensive espionage collection, the breadth and quality of The Collection can never be replicated. Our role included collaboration with the owner and renowned photo historian Jack Naylor on marketing strategies, a promotional catalog and video, international publicity, targeted mailings to a carefully researched list of potential buyers, planning of major auction events, and discussions and negotiations.
 
A major auction was held in NYC in October of 2007 and we served as liaison between the owner and auctioneer. We also coordinated sale of the balance of The Collection. Feature stories about The Collection were placed in publications such as The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, Maine Antiques Digest, and Shutterbug. A story with links to our web site aired on National Public Radio’s Weekend Edition. The catalog that we created received the GRAPHIS “G Award” and was featured on a two-page spread in the GRAPHIS Design Annual 2007.
 
In collaboration with photographer Brian Smith, we acquired from The Naylor Collection over 6000 glass negatives. The images principally represent the work of two New England photographic studios in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. They are a rich and intriguing archive that we are cataloguing and photographing in preparation for upcoming exhibits, publications and sale.
 

Scottish Rite
Lexington, MA
 
"Unfolding the Flag - Celebration of an American Symbol"
We are researching and producing a new video that will be installed as a permanent attraction at the Rite's National Heritage Museum in Lexington, MA. It features the Museum's restored 15-star flag and will stimulate audiences to think about the reasons that our flag is so revered, about the many symbolic roles that it plays in our culture, and about the implications of those symbolic qualities. A 15-star flag flying over Fort McHenry during the War of 1812 inspired "The Star Spangled Banner" and we recently interviewed 97-year-old Francis Scott Key III.
 
We are also currently in discussions with collector and designer Kit Hinrichs of Pentagram, planning to bring to the Museum his award-winning exhibit "Long May She Wave." We are working closely with Museum staff and the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibit Service (SITES).
 
New Member DVD
 
Membership development is a critical challenge for the Scottish Rite fraternity. We created a 10-part menu-driven DVD with a companion web site and custom packaging for wide distribution to young men. Comprehensive planning and production phases included focus groups, marketing and publicity plans, and creative video treatments introducing the best that Scottish Rite has to offer.
 
To date, over 70,000 DVDs are in distribution.
 
32˚ Masonic Learning Centers for Children
 
In addition to the National Heritage Museum in Lexington, MA, the Rite's principal charity is the sponsorship of 59 Learning Centers that offer free 1:1 tutoring to children with dyslexia. We produced our third video “UPDATE” for fund-raising and a first-ever 30” TV public service announcement.
 

 

RECENT WORK

Boston Children's Museum
Boston, MA
 
In collaboration with colleague Mike Callahan of Museum Technology Source we captured to hi-definition video and then edited a computer flight simulation. The video program, delivered as a digital file, is for a wide two-screen display in a new museum exhibit. We also edited segments from the popular PBS series "Buster" into 1.5-minute menu-driven vignettes.
 

The Hamilton Trust
Boston, MA
 
On the occasion of the 125th anniversary of this, the first private investment club in America, we created a 64-page commemorative book printed on a full-color Indigo digital press, a Gala dinner program and a custom-engraved USB flash drive in a gift box.
 

The Massachusetts Historical Society
Boston, MA
 
We began an expansive engagement to enhance the Society's regional and national image and to promote membership and fund-raising. Deliverables included the conception and design of a new Society booklet, two new membership brochures and a multi-page bookmark. We also designed and produced the annual meeting invitation.
 

Scottish Rite
Lexington, MA
 
We completed a new parent orientation video for the 32° Masonic Learning Centers for Children. It includes new hi-definition video and source material from our library compiled since this charity, focused on dyslexia, was first introduced in 1995.