Croce Verde

I am Croce Verde

Portrait of Marco, volunteer, on black with the line I am Croce Verde
Client
Croce Verde
Programme
Expression
Services

Concept & art direction

Portraits & reportage

Film

Infographics

Illustration & collage

Year
2025

A volunteer association is made of people, but all anyone sees is the vehicle. We turned the camera around: from the ambulance to the people who get in it.

The starting point

Emergency services are almost always communicated through the vehicle and the uniform: effective for being recognised, useless for being chosen. Someone reading a call for volunteers isn’t evaluating a service, they are deciding what to do with their own time.

The direction

Four registers under a single system of green and black. The portraits put a name and the years of service beside every face. The black-and-white reportage shows the gesture, not the emergency: a hand held, a corridor walked together. The infographics carry the numbers and the history, because trust needs data too. And the health posters do the hardest thing of all: talk about prevention without sounding like a leaflet.

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The portraits

Every volunteer says the same sentence in the first person, with their own name and years of service beside it. The association stops being an institution and becomes a list of people.

Portrait of Sara, a member for eighteen years, on black with the line I am Croce Verde
Portrait of Marco, volunteer, on black with the line I am Croce Verde
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Lives in service

Black-and-white reportage. No sirens, no staged urgency: the night shift, a hand held, a corridor walked together.

Volunteer driving the ambulance seen from inside the cab, black and white
Two hands holding each other over a blanket, close detail
Two volunteers walking a person along a hospital corridor
Hands touching in low light during a call-out
Person in a wheelchair accompanied in the dark, a single light on the subject
Volunteer on duty at the edge of an empty stadium pitch
Volunteer seen from behind in Croce Verde uniform during a match
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Informing

The fleet, the numbers and the milestones of the association’s history, drawn in the same green. The part that answers the practical questions of anyone considering joining.

Green infographic: advanced life support ambulance drawn in axonometric projection
Green infographic: minibus equipped for wheelchair transport with a ramp
Green infographic: type B ambulance drawn in axonometric projection
Card on the year 2000 and the arrival of the 118 emergency system, with a green telephone
Card showing 198,433 kilometres travelled over a relief map
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Care and health

A health-education campaign built as collage: archive anatomical illustration, flowers, cut-outs. It talks about prevention without the tone of a waiting-room leaflet.

Collage poster for World Hepatitis Day, anatomical illustration and flowers
Collage poster for World Breastfeeding Week, a maternal figure among flowers
Sage green poster on the mistake people make with lunch at the beach, food collage
Collage poster for World Humanitarian Day, a figure holding a child
Poster on wearing sunscreen all year round, collage with a sun and a figure
Collage poster for International Self-Care Day, a figure embracing themselves
Poster on check-ups close to home, collage with an anatomical heart and a television
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Other work

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