GLAD 20 YEARS - Flipbook - Page 26
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Customers,
Thank You
The approach was much the same for Glad Design. An inventive graphic designer, Camilla Draiby,
knocked on our door, because she saw great potential in cooperation with people with disabilities.
She too, didn’t get money, but a desk, and she volunteered in workshops. When Glad Vocational
School was established Camilla Draiby became part of it, and in 2010 she employed a number of
people in Glad Graphic Design, which produces graphic work and patterns for external customers.
Later, when Camilla left Glad to become self-employed, her colleagues Jannie Jalloh and Preben
Larsen took over. Both had been hired as free lancers, and as is often the case at Glad they became
part of permanent staff.
“I came from an entirely different world, and probably nurtured some weird notions about what
it means to have a disability. Working here was an incredibly positive surprise, and I have grown as
a human being. The people here have no hidden agendas, you always get an honest answer, their
products are genuine and come from the heart,” says Preben Larsen.
Daily leader Jannie Jalloh totally agrees – and laughs: “You might very well get an honest opinion
you haven’t asked for. For better or for worse. One day when you might look great, they will tell you,
and the same goes for a day when you’re worn out and tired. One day one of employees told a customer that, ‘we like our customers, as long as they pay!’ The customer took it gracefully.”
In 2010 the Glad Foundation changed its visual identity. The first green and yellow logo changed
in favour of stripes, one for each of Glad’s by then many departments. The department itself is
renamed Glad Design.
“This is more precise; we produce anything from patterns over luxury sheets to print for t-shirts,
post cards and the foundation’s brochures and exhibition material.”
At Glad Design too, focus is on the product. If someone needs e.g. a flower, the illustrators, which is
the official title of the employees on special conditions, are asked to produce a flower.
Two of the illustrators, Tilde Vallø Bisgaard and Daniel Poulsen, work with patterns. They get their
inspiration from books or their imagination. They laugh merrily while describing a specially fun
assignment: ”We created flower for the Break-Cancer T-shirts, and we were filmed while creating
them. It was broadcast on TV2, and it was a bit embarrassing to see oneself on TV,” says a giggling
Tilde.
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