Client: Bloxham School
Art Direction, User Interviews, Wireframes, UX & Responsive Website Design.
OBJECTIVES
Telling authentic brand stories in the educational sector has become a bit of a niche for us. And when Bloxham School in Oxfordshire commissioned us to help them with their digital strategy we jumped right on the case.
Bloxham School has a strong ethos, big ambition and an expectation that every child will flourish. It has the desire to develop students as critical thinkers and independent learners through an all-around holistic approach to education. They believe strongly in preparing young people for life beyond the school gates, with the core skills and the finest academic qualifications needed to be successful and adaptable in an ever-changing world.
The brief was to produce an elegant, bold and brave new website, that would accurately portray life at the school and promote its core educational hallmarks. The website needed to consistently convey Bloxham School’s brand promise and help reinforce this promise right through from an initial school visit, to school life and beyond.
SOLUTION
Every one of our projects starts with asking a lot of questions, so only after we conducted a series of stakeholder interviews did we summarise the user and business requirements and were ready to work on the website's structure, both in page groupings and in individual page priorities.
The resulting website has a high degree of information-giving and also maintains an optimum level of engagement by continuing to celebrate Bloxham School’s key qualities and successes.
ASSET PRODUCTION
Bloxham School identified five hallmarks as part of its brand positioning strategy, which was used as a brief for the website’s photography and homepage video. Over the course of two days, our team covered the school’s key areas and topics allowing us to produce a 30-second piece that touched upon all five of these hallmarks with the aim of providing a quick introduction to the school and its grounds.