I was checking one of my e-mail accounts after a long, long time, deleting all the rubbish mails that are habitually sent my way. And in the process, came across a few mails that carried some of the work I had done for my former organization, CFCI, when I had been in their Corporate Communications department. Those were really good days, in hindsight. I used to work with an extremely talented web-designer, Sarvajit, who despite being attached to the ITS department, had become an unofficial member of the Corp Comm team. And I thought we formed a brilliant team – whenever there was any internal communications campaign to be executed, I would come up with the copy, and she would do the design – photoshop, flash, whatever.

In fact, we got to be so good, I did away with my ad agency for all interanal comm. solutions – those guys were ripping us off in any case, charging a minimum 5g for any creative work. And their work wasn’t even that brilliant. And my fondness for scandalous copy made me rather popular (unfortunately, most internal comm. usually revolved around HR communications.. and if anyone has worked with HR, they would vouch for the fact that those guys don’t have a sense of humor). Quite a few things did eventually get published, and won me rave reviews.. a few never made it past HR (it never helps when the boss of corp. comm. is also boss of HR).

Here are some of the images I found (and I suppose its ok to share this with the world.. they never got published in any case).  And hey, if you are thinking about copying these ideas, I am totally ok with that, but let me know what you’ve done with them will ya?

Image 1: So, HR was running this internal campaign to spread awareness about a few amended policies. I loved this particular poster, unfortunately, HR didn’t find it funny (surprise! surprise!)

Images 2, 3, 4 and 5 : Snapshots of an informal, welcome brochure I had wanted to roll-out for new recruits. This too was never published, probably because the C-suite usually prefers corporate spiel in its brochures, never mind if no one reads the damn brochure. I have purposely deleted some of the other pages, which give away information about the company / its systems.

(Click on these images to enlarge)

Sigh.. nostalgia!