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Ecological restoration · 2026 onwards

Restor

Restor is the digital platform connecting the people restoring the planet, a Swiss nonprofit spun out of ETH Zürich, built with Google, and home to the world's largest community of restoration projects. The platform was already built when we came in. Our work is everything around it: the campaigns, the pages, the posts, the newsletters, and the fundraising that put it in front of the people who need it.

Role
Embedded creative partner
An extension of the team
Scope
Campaign pages · Social
Email · Fundraising design
Cadence
Monthly content direction
Campaign by campaign
The Restor Insights portfolio landing page on a laptop
01 · The remit

We did not build the platform. We make sure the world sees it.

Restor's product and platform were established long before we joined, and they are good. What a science-led nonprofit rarely has is a standing creative team, someone to hold the visual language steady across a dozen channels while the science, the partners, and the funding conversations keep moving.

That is the remit. We work inside Restor's brand rather than over it: campaign landing pages, the social feed, the newsletter, and the fundraising asks, produced at the pace of the organisation and answerable to the same mission.

02 · Campaign pages

Each campaign gets a page that can carry an ask on its own.

The RestorLife Awards and the support page are two different jobs. One has to explain eligibility, categories, dates, and a judging panel clearly enough that an NGO in the field can apply without a call. The other has to make a donation feel like a decision, not a form. Both are built from the same components, the same dark and pale-green banding, and the same restraint.

The RestorLife Awards 2026 applications page, hero film, award categories, key dates and the evaluation committee
RestorLife Awards 2026: applications
The Support Restor page, donation milestones, the global map, and the feedback loop explained
Support Restor: fundraising
Restoration is already happening. Design decides how many people hear about it.
Working principle
03 · Social content

Photography first, type as the frame.

The Instagram and LinkedIn feeds run on real photography from the projects themselves, with a small set of typographic devices layered on top: an arced line for context, a highlighted marker for the news, a single yellow accent held back for what matters. Product announcements use the same grammar in the dark palette, so the feed reads as one voice whether the subject is a sunflower or a dashboard.

Instagram post announcing the Business Leadership Award finalists over a sunflower
Instagram: awards finalists announcement
Restor Insights campaign post, reporting time saved, shown over the product dashboard
Restor Insights: product marketing
04 · Email and newsletters

One story per send, and one thing to do about it.

Newsletters, award announcements, and donor updates are written and laid out to the same rule: lead with a project, not the organisation, and close with a single action. Templates are built to survive the real conditions of email, image blocking, dark mode, and a phone in one hand.

Restor · Newsletter
RestorLife Awards 2026 finalist announcement email
Finalist announcement send: RestorLife Awards 2026
Restor · Awards
RestorLife Awards 2026 winners announcement email
Winners announcement send: RestorLife Awards 2026
Newsletter

A monthly send built around one project story, with platform news kept to a short second block.

Campaign sequence

Awards invitations, deadline reminders, and finalist announcements written as one arc rather than separate emails.

Donor updates

What the money did, in plain language, tied back to named projects on the platform.

05 · Holding the brand steady

Consistency is the deliverable nobody asks for and everybody notices.

Restor speaks to smallholder farmers, scientists, institutional funders, and the G20 Global Land Initiative, often in the same week. Keeping one visual system across all of it means writing down what was previously carried in people's heads: how the mark is used, when the yellow appears, how a page bands from ink to pale green, what a headline is allowed to claim.

Every new asset now starts from those rules rather than from the last file someone found, which is what makes a small team look like a house style.

Outcome

A standing creative function, without a standing creative department.

Restor briefs a campaign and gets the page, the posts, the email sequence, and the assets back as one coherent set. Nothing waits on a freelancer being found, and nothing arrives off-brand.

It is the least glamorous kind of design work and the most useful: an organisation doing serious ecological work, showing up in public as seriously as it works.

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