Capture the imagination of prospective parents
Your school is a unique and wonderful place to learn. But how do you make your ethos and personality really come to life and shine out from the pages of your prospectus?
The Art of School team will help you to successfully over come this challenge. We understand that it’s so important for all your traditional and digital marketing efforts to quickly capture the imagination of prospective parents.
We’re a team of specialists with well-honed skills in VisualBrand Identity, Photography, Video, Print, Marketing and Project Management. Independent schools, just like other commercial businesses we work with, need to have a brand that is clear and consistent at every point of contact.
Here you can see examples of our work for Bethany school. Their logo was already well established, but they needed a creative platform to highlight their core philosophy, ‘The Virtue of Learning’.
John McCarthy, our Creative Director, designed a circular visual language centred on the School’s core philosophy - a constellation of learning habits known as the ‘Virtue of Learning’, which is based upon the philosophies of Aristotle and Aquinas.
John produced a vision for the prospectuses and worked closely with Roddy Paine, our exceptional photographer, to produce an extremely detailed shoot list. He also consulted with Matt Bigwood our print expert.
Emma Pearce, as our Marketing Specialist, supported Bethanyby project managing the design, copywriting, approval process and printing of over 50 pieces of marketing collateral. This included school and sixth form prospectuses, bursaries and scholarships brochure, course information booklets, website animation video, pop up graphics, merchandise and a suite of press adverts for deadlines throughout the year.
Thank you so much to Emma and the Pearce Marketing team for all their support during the marathon roll out of our school rebranding. By working with Emma, it enabled John McCarthy, who developed our fantastic new brand, to focus on all the graphic design work that was needed.
Emma project managed the delivery of a huge amount of new marketing collateral -liaising with us, John, the printer and an external animation specialist. This was as well as coordinating and meeting deadlines for over 12months of printed adverts.
Their communication was really good and we simply wouldn't have
got everything done without them.
Ginnie Corbett
Marketing and Admissions Manager
Roddy and John have been a great team to work with over a number of years. We were looking to refresh our website back in 2014 and Roddy visited as a photographer - we’ve not looked back ever since! Roddy introduced us to John who spent real-time getting to know us. As a result we looked to reshape our prospectus and other publications. They absolutely understood our messaging, ethos and vibe and we’re delighted with the results.
Tim Calvey
Headmaster, Orley Farm School
Specialist Delivery
The Art of School team can deliver images that consistently communicate your messages across all mediums, including print, video and web animation. We’ll always take account of all the versions of your uniform, the gender and nationality of your pupils and the range of facilities you provide. With you, we’ll devise a detailed schedule and timetable to ensure we gather all the photographs and video required. John and Roddy’s storytelling abilities, through design and visuals, includes planning scripts, art direction, editing and all elements of post production.
We have been working with JohnMcCarthy since October 2018 and in that time John has designed a number of prestigious school prospectuses and direct marketing campaigns for our school. I couldn’t recommend John McCarthy more highly. He is incredibly creative, reliable, always a fast turn around and always very patient! One of the best agencies I have used in a very long time.
Wendy Owens,
Marketing Communications Director,
Radnor House Sevenoaks
Roddy and John have been a great team to work with over a number of years. We were looking to refresh our website back in 2014 and Roddy visited as a photographer - we’ve not looked back ever since! Roddy introduced us to John who spent real time getting to know us. As a result we looked to reshape our we looked other publications. They absolutely understood our messaging, ethos and vibe and we’re delighted with the results.
Tim Calvey
Headmaster, Orley Farm School
Start a conversation.
Would you like to have an initial conversation about your branding, photography and/or marketing requirements? We'd be delighted to talk to you. In the first instance, please make contact with Emma Pearce who can introduce you to the individual team members as required.
You can reach Emma on 01323 769130 and emma@theartofschool.co.uk. Thank you.
Emma Pearce
Marketing Specialist & Project Manager
John McCarthy
Creative Director & Branding Specialist
Roddy Paine
Photographer & Videographer
Ben London
Web Design Specialist
Matt Bigwood
Print & Display Specialist