Old Harbor Native Corporation

DIGITAL

Annual Report

Introduction - The Why

Old Harbor Native Corporation (OHNC), a regional Alaska Native Corporation, engaged our team to create their 2025 annual report with a clear mission: reflect the corporation’s financial strength, honor a major leadership transition and celebrate cultural stewardship.

This year’s report marked a pivotal moment - the retirement of long-serving CEO Carl Marrs and the appointment of Kristina Woolston, OHNC’s first female CEO. The report needed to honor this leadership milestone, embody the corporation’s deep cultural heritage and present record-setting financial results in a format that was both engaging and accessible to a wide shareholder base.

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The Approach

We began by meeting with the OHNC team to outline their needs for the annual report for both creative and strategic communications. We conducted strategic research, audited past reports, and reviewed OHNC’s brand closely to uncover key themes: subsistence, land stewardship, community resilience, and legacy.

From there, we established a joint workflow between account and creative teams. Content gathering, visual concepting, and client collaboration happened in parallel, ensuring that creative innovation and cultural authenticity could be achieved without compromising quality. Once a creative vision was decided on, we got to work laying out the report.

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Tactics & Execution

Design & Visual Identity

OHNC wanted a look that felt familiar to their brand, yet completely new and visually distinctive from their other materials. Using their breadth of traditional patterns and motifs, we established a new style that brought visual balance to a copy-heavy application and seamlessly complemented their photography under the theme “Unguwacirpet: Our Way of Living”.
We developed a custom color palette, inspired by Kodiak Island’s lush emeralds, mosses, and deep forest tones, to reinforce OHNC’s deep connection to the land as the Alaska Native Corporation for the Kodiak region.

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Production & Delivery

The report was optimized for both digital distribution and print, ensuring accessibility for shareholders across remote regions. Working closely with a local printer, we were able to maintain high-production quality and ensure every detail - from color accuracy to material selection - reflected the integrity and vision of the final piece.

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Results & Conclusion

The 2025 Annual Report, sent to 570 OHNC shareholders, became more than a year-end publication - it served as a powerful tool to reinforce OHNC’s mission: building economic and educational empowerment while perpetuating cultural pride and self-determination. This project exemplifies our team’s ability to deliver creative work that is both visually distinctive and strategically aligned with our clients’ missions.

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