SILENT MODE

Turning a silent setting into a loud metaphor.

Silent mode is a setting we choose to turn on temporarily. But for 4 million students in the U.S. without music education, silent mode isn’t a choice. It’s their everyday reality.

For the Young Lions 2026 Print Brief, we were tasked with creating a print that inspires donations to Save the Music’s “Give the Gift of Music” campaign. So we turned an everyday digital experience into a human truth, showing that every student deserves to be heard.