Great Oaks College
Great Oaks College is a further education college based in Hounslow, offering a range of courses for young people with moderate, severe or profound and multiple learning difficulties.
Great Oaks College needed a complete rebrand delivered by a team that understood specialist education, covering a new logo, website, prospectus and photography that captured real college life.
We started with the logo. The new mark is built around three overlapping circles, each representing one of the college’s three core areas: multisensory, life skills and vocational skills. Each circle carries its own colour, giving the identity flexibility while keeping everything visually connected. Clean, modern and approachable, it gave Great Oaks a logo that felt right for the students, carers and staff who engage with the college every day.
Website and photography
With the new identity in place, we designed and built a website that was clean, professional and easy to navigate for their target audience of students and carers.
Photography from our on-site shoot was used throughout, bringing the website to life with real images of young people at college, engaging with courses and experiencing the positive atmosphere of everyday life at Great Oaks. Authentic imagery makes a significant difference for a specialist college, and the photography gave the site the warmth and credibility that stock images simply cannot provide.
Prospectus design
The new A4 portrait prospectus followed the same visual direction as the website, clean and fresh with the photography carrying the design throughout.
Every page was designed to help prospective students and their carers understand what the college offered and how it felt to be part of it. The courses, the atmosphere and the outcomes were all communicated clearly, giving Great Oaks a prospectus that was as welcoming as the college it represented.
