Open Bank is a faith-based community bank built on relationship banking. The brief was an institutional story deck — the kind of document that has to work in an investor meeting, a branch onboarding, and a partnership conversation without being rebuilt for each one.

The difficulty in a deck like this is never the visuals. It's that the source material arrives as four unrelated kinds of information: a chronology stretching back to 2005, a geographic footprint across the United States, growth figures, and a set of people and community commitments. Each one wants a different form. Presented as a uniform run of slides, they flatten into noise, and a reader who joined the room for one of the four leaves without it.

I structured the deck as four distinct movements — Our Journey, Our Network, Our People, Our Growth — and gave each one the form its information actually needed. The history became a horizontal timeline that reads as continuous momentum rather than a list of dates. The footprint became a California map where branch density is visible at a glance instead of requiring a table lookup. Growth and community work carried the same header system and green accent so the reader always knows where they are in the document, even joining mid-deck.