ARCON — "Be Counted." pitch cover in white and green slab serif, with ghosted counter numbers climbing to 1,380,557

ARCON

ARCON "Be Counted"

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Campaign Pitch · Pitch and presentation design
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Campaign pitch deck

A tally-mark ledger concept for a national youth electoral participation competition.

The Brief

The ARCON colloquium asked students to pitch on youth, electoral participation and civic responsibility. The real problem is not that young Nigerians don't care. They are the loudest generation online and the least counted at the polls, and a campaign that lectures them gets scrolled past.

The Idea

Be Counted. We don't fight the habit of posting, we hijack it: every civic act, from registering to checking a claim to showing up, becomes a tally mark on one national counter that only goes up. Online you get seen. In a democracy you get counted.

How We Made It

We built the pitch as an argument that moves one slide at a time: insight, tension, big idea, mechanic, executions. Slab-serif headlines in white and a bright civic green on near-black, cream pages for the tension and the mechanic, and red saved for one line, "We vanish like spectators." Hand-drawn tally marks run through every slide, and the cover carries ghosted counter numbers climbing behind the title. The mechanic is four plain steps, register, verify, show up, watch it rise, and the deck ends on work people can picture: a 60-second hero film called "The Count" and the Zero Boards, billboards that start at zero and climb with the live tally.

The Result

ARCON — the big idea slide: "Be Counted." beside hand-drawn tally marks, framed as an identity, a verb and a civic line
ARCON — "The mechanic: The Tally" — register, verify, show up and watch it rise
ARCON — insight slide "We are the loudest generation Nigeria has ever produced — and the least counted."
ARCON — key executions: the hero film "The Count" and the Zero Boards out-of-home counters
ARCON — tension slide "We post like citizens. We vanish like spectators." contrasting online and offline behaviour