Wide-format banner cropped from the Researching Law newsletter cover, showing a speaker at a podium against a warm brown background with ABF brand graphic elements

American Bar Foundation

Nonprofit Newsletter Design

The American Bar Foundation is an independent research organization that has spent over 70 years conducting rigorous, groundbreaking legal research—exploring where law, society, and culture meet. Their Researching Law newsletter translates that scholarship into accessible stories for a broad audience. Weiher Creative first redesigned the newsletter in 2012, then refreshed it again in 2024 when the ABF underwent a full rebrand—keeping the publication looking polished, current, and true to the organization’s renewed identity.

Project Scope

Graphic Design

Cover of the American Bar Foundation's Researching Law newsletter, Fall 2024, Vol. 33 No. 1, featuring a speaker at a podium at the 2023 ABA Annual Meeting, with the headline "Discounting Life: Necropolitical Law, Culture and the Long War on Terror" Two-page newsletter spread covering the panel discussion on necropolitical law, featuring pull quotes, editorial photography of the presenter and panel, and body text in the ABF's refreshed 2024 brand design Two-page newsletter spread opening the Researching Law feature article "Discounting Life: Necropolitical Law, Culture, and the Long War on Terror," with a panelist photo, summary text, and book cover Two-page newsletter spread covering the panel discussion on necropolitical law, featuring pull quotes, editorial photography of the presenter and panel, and body text in the ABF's refreshed 2024 brand design Two-page newsletter spread featuring panel discussion coverage with an editorial photo of panelist Will A. Gunn speaking, pull quotes, and editorial text in the ABF Researching Law redesigned layout