Relief depicts the daily reality of people living with anxiety in Louise’s Diary

10/14/2022

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As part of its efforts to break the taboos around mental health disorders, non-profit organization Relief just launched a new awareness campaign with Le journal de Louise

Each week for a year, Louise’s Diary describes the highs and lows of a fictional character living with anxiety.

 “Louise” represents the one out of five Canadians currently living with a mental health disorder. Created by Relief, Louise’s Diary is a story that helps put what these people feel into words, gives them tips and tricks to improve their well-being, and provides them with a safe space to help break the taboos around mental health in their personal and professional lives.

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After having developed a brand-new visual identity for the organization in 2021, Cossette has once again leveraged its expertise to design the digital experience and provide the art direction for this latest project. Together with Relief, they wanted to create not just an awareness campaign, but a memorable and empathetic user experience in which everyone can identify with the character and thereby understand and reflect what they’re going through. 

It was important for us to work with a partner whose creative and digital expertise would bring our storytelling strategy to life. Cossette’s idea of putting the reader at the heart of the experience was consistent with Relief’s DNA. We’re delighted and grateful to have Cossette as a close partner, and we’d like to thank their team for their commitment and creativity.
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Alexandra Guérin, Marketing Manager at Relief
The idea behind this platform was to give Relief a communications tool that would open the door to discussion, education and mental health management—all without the finished product being too promotional. So, we created an engaging reading experience that allows the reader to consume the content gradually and follow the character’s emotional highs and lows in ‘real time.
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Frédéric Lord, Associate Creative Director at Cossette
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Credits

Original idea
Alexandra Guérin and Annie Beaudin (Relief)
Project management
Alexandra Guérin (Relief)
Project design
Charles Saliba-Couture (Les mots pour la cause), Alexandra Guérin and Annie Beaudin (Relief)
Copywriting (stories and website)
Charles Saliba-Couture (Les mots pour la cause)
Copywriting (clinical sidebars)
Alexandra Guérin, Sylvie Elsig and Annie Beaudin (Relief)
Strategy
Alexandra Guérin (Relief), Jean-Xavier Wilhelmy, Morgane Loffroy, Louis-Philippe Mathieu and Gabrielle Cyr (Cossette)
Creative direction
Frédéric Lord (Cossette)
Art direction and graphic design
Marlène Dulude (Cossette)
Illustrations
Ève Chenette (Cossette), Kevin Fouillet (Sunset Creative Studio)
Account services
Éric Deslauriers and Benoit Laurin (Cossette)
Web development
Simon Barrette
Translation
Catherine Trollope and Marsha Roc-Malychenkova
Public relations and communications consulting
Sylvie Letendre and Geneviève Guérard (Capital-Image)