Welcome to Lore Creative
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We are a close-knit, friendly creative team with bags of experience in design and marketing for schools, trusts, and colleges (we’ve been doing it for over 20 years!). We believe the key to successful school marketing is great communication.
That’s why we take time to get to know you, your school, and your stakeholder community before we dive into creatively communicating your unique values through design. Whether you need brand design, a prospectus, website or a creative wall display, we can help.
We’ve collated a snapshot of our work here in this brochure - we hope you enjoy taking a look through.
Branding
We are specialists in designing a consistent brand style which we will apply across all your marketing elements.
Videography
We produce and direct videos that truly showcase your School’s personality. We work with you from story boarding to final edits.
Photography
We work with you to build a shoot itinerary that ensures we capture all the ‘real’ looking shots you need on the day.
Whether it’s a printed prospectus or a digital online brochure, we create a bespoke design for your school.
On site visuals
From banners to signage, displays to wall art, we work with you to showcase your brand all around your school site.
Website
Often the first impression your audience will see, we design and build bespoke websites to match your brand.
OUR APPROACH
We care deeply about client relationships. Many of our clients have been with us for ages, and are regular customers; we believe that’s what makes us different!
For each client, we choose a select team to work on their project; pairing personalities and creativity skills to ensure a smooth and successful result in all we do. We acknowledge that budgets are a constant concern for schools and pride ourselves on working with our clients to come within their budget – what ever it may be!
Videos for your school, academy or trust
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Videography is very popular medium for presenting your school’s assets and USP’s. We produce and direct videos that truly showcase your school’s personality and ethos. There are many different types / styles of video that can be achieved and we will discuss these with you, please see the link below to view some samples of our recent video projects.
Visit: www.lorecreative.co.uk/services/school-videos/
Case study: Beacon Academy
School prospectuses, Sixth Form Marketing materials
“Having carefully researched our options, Lore Creative stood out due to their wealth of knowledge and experience within the education sector, their consistent approach, and competitive rates. Their team, was incredibly helpful and responsive throughout the entire process. From the pre-shoot visit to the day of the shoots, their support was invaluable. They were always available to answer any questions and provided reassuring advice, which made the planning process much smoother.
We had a clear vision for the outcome for the photography and the prospectus work, and Lore Creative not only helped us achieve it but also offered insightful suggestions along the way. The logistics of school photography can be complex, but Sarah’s understanding of our needs and considerations really helped us to plan effectively and efficiently.
The shoot days at our two secondary schools in East Sussex were enjoyable thanks to the extensive planning we did together, and we were confident that everything would go as planned. The entire process was smooth, the pricing was competitive, and we felt confident that we were in safe hands with Lore Creative.
We highly recommend Lore Creative to any schools or multi-academy trusts looking for professional, reliable, and well-executed school photography and design services. Their experience, dedication and support made all the difference.”
Mrs C Hoper, Marketing and Communications Manager
Case study: Downlands Community School
School logo rebrand and rollout
Before & after
“Lore Creative created our new logo, new prospectus and brought our school’s vision to life in a captivating video. It was their extensive knowledge, attention to detail, and helpful professional approach that made this project run so smoothly. Highly recommend their talent and expertise!”
Downlands Community School required a new logo and visual style for their school marketing and had been recommended Lore Creative by a local School.
From the first meeting we understood that the team at Downlands didn’t feel their current logo embodied or reflected the ethos of the school. They wanted a new logo and design style that was modern, crisp, and communicated their bespoke location in the South Downs.
The logo is now being used sympathetically as watermarked features throughout the school, via wall graphics, prospectus and their communications. We have recently completed a new marketing video for the school.
Jo Miles, PA to Senior Leadership Team
Case study: H3 Federation
Development of new Federation identity, school logos, marketing literature and recruitment video
H 3 Federation
Haverstock School
Harmood School
“We’ve worked closely on some mammoth projects – including developing an identity for our new schools Federation, and a full rebrand of two individual schools – with logos, video production, signage, materials, uniform and more. At each stage in the process, Lore were helpful, patient and imaginative, and we’re delighted with the results. They bring this same attention to detail to our smaller jobs too, creating smart and professional materials for us all year round. I would recommend them without hesitation.
Lore Creative make brilliant partners on any project, no matter how large or small. They’re always delightful to work with: endlessly creative, thoughtful and professional. They are generous at sharing their wealth of ideas and experience. And they’re supremely reliable, gently guiding each project along to make sure your deadlines are met.
The team always take time to listen and understand your aims, and work tirelessly to deliver what you need.”
Anna Butler, Marketing and Communications
Case study: Ancaster CofE Primary School
Logo refresh and creation of church school ‘vision and values’ theme
When Ancaster Primary School first approached us, they asked us first and foremost to freshen up their school logo. They wanted to keep the centurion, but wanted the logo to feel more modern.
Recently the school approached us for another branding project. They had recently rewritten their school Vision and Values, and they asked us to help bring them to life. They wanted the new vision to be apparent around school and in classrooms; they wanted visitors to see their journey and share in their ambition. Our brief was to embed the values visually through the school so teachers, parents and the children can relate, understand and believe in the school’s message.
Before & after
“Working in partnership with Lore Creative to create a visual interpretation for our new Vision and Values was an exciting and rewarding experience. They listened carefully to what we had in mind and were able to interpret our thoughts, turning them into excellent designs, producing what we had in mind - and some more! The designs are creative, effective and the messages are clear. The colours are perfect. The whole team are professional and efficient - nothing is too much trouble.”
Debra Moore, School Business Leader
Case study: Wyken Croft Primary School
Creation and roll-out of a new visual interpretation of the school’s Vision and Values.
Wyken Croft Primary School wanted their written school Vision and Values to be brought to life visually around the school. They asked us to take their text and create a visual brand style that would speak to their pupils, staff, visitors and community. We took these and started to create concepts of how we could visualise elements to make them enticing and interesting through their new internal branding.
We created a main graphic that could be used online, on-site and also in their internal and external communications (recruitment packs, presentations etc.). Using the bright colours and icons for each value, we designed themed posters and wall graphics for stairwells and corridors, ensuring the new style was ‘singing’ all aspects around the school.
Once we’d installed all the new internal branding, we also supplied the school with electronic files for each of the designs so they could use them in-house; establishing a consistent approach to their new brand.
& after
Case study: Learning without Limits Academy Trust
Trust wide brand development
Quantity 250
Size 900x20mm
Repeat 100mm
Required by 22/06/21
Notes
“As a Trust made up of 5 schools we had a wide range of documents, designs and other media being produced mainly in house with varying levels of quality. We set out on a journey with Lore to standardise our core documentation with a new house style. We were that happy with the professionalisation of our image that we expanded our working relationship to a full marketing strategy to include advertising, rebranding and large-scale internal branding. We have an amazing working relationship with Lore and nothing is too much trouble which means the end result is always high quality and represents each of our individual academies and the Trust perfectly.”
David Goulding, Director of IT & Communications
The exact position of the print may vary on the lanyard and the print may be cut or sewn through. Logo and text will be within 1mm of the edges of the lanyard.
WHAT NEXT?
If you’re looking for support to develop your brand, create a new prospectus, promote your Vision and Values, or simply want to talk about what options are available, please get in touch with us, we’ll be happy to talk you through what we could produce together.
Check out our website for examples of our work and marketing inspiration for your Trust or School. Get in touch
tel: 07802 329242
email: office@lorecreative.co.uk web: www.lorecreative.co.uk
A friendly team of experts ready to support your school marketing, branding and design.
