Brand Takeovers
With Millennials and Gen-Z students glued to their devices, they tend to choose brands that have a clear voice, character and are creative. Exploit Instagram, Snapchat and TikTok platforms with unique animated and video content. Increasing brand interactions to increase enrollment.
persuasive prospectus
To support your school or college’s website, a prospectuses is crucial to showcase your facilities to potential students, their parents, new teachers and to local business. Creating a downloadable version would strengthen your sustainability credentials. Helping you make a convincing case.
outside the classroom
With the shift to online learning during the pandemic and the inevitable growth of online learning providers, take this opportunity update your website. Evolve your branding, integrate your social media, and provide a richer, more engaging online experience for students and staff.
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Opening doors
My first freelance design client was Oxford University Press. When I took the plunge in 2007, they gave me my first opportunity designing promotional materials for their Higher Education textbooks. A decade later I am working for several divisions across the business including Academic publications, Online & Reference materials, and several Journal titles. Getting my foot in the door helped reassure me that I’d made the right decision. OUP is an inspiring educational institution, with over 500 years of history printing the written word.
A New curriculum
As Nelson Mandela famously once said: “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world”. Education is my passion. In a similar vein as my design work for the arts and culture sector, I feel like I am able to give something back. I’ve produced work for schools and colleges, universities, for online learning and tuition platforms, for libraries and academic institutions across the educational spectrum.
I work collaboratively with marketing departments and editors to expertly deliver advertising and promotions using both paper and pixels. I create branding for new product launches, design presentations for pitches, entire exhibition stands and supporting collateral, design and develop microsites, materials to engage the alumni community, course and prospectus brochures to entice new students, book and journal cover concepts. My first graphic design assignment whilst at University, was to produce a book jacket for a Graham Greene classic.
With an ever increasing number of titles migrating online, the importance of a logical well structured design approach, which may well be invisible to the majority of readers, will improve both speed and accessibility to the content. Any structure must also be responsive. I employ responsive design layouts to ensure your publication performs to the best of it’s ability across all devices from mobile to desktop. Embracing change to provide a seamless experience between printed and online publications.
Turning the page
When creating digital brochures, strategy documents and annual reports for clients I aim to incorporate genuinely useful features as opposed to trendy tricks. Adding a simulated page curl with sound effect is such a cliche! Start with an interactive contents page, allowing readers to jump straight into the content that most interests them, before they follow a more traditional cover to cover journey. At a more detailed level, I guide the eye deliberately by organising the on-screen information using different levels of styled hierarchy.
Other interactive elements worth considering are: mouse activated rollovers to reveal deeper level information, call-to-action buttons (CTA), external and internal links to related content or similar articles, adding rich media content to further engage readers such as explainer animations, podcasts, webcasts, videos and infographics.
Never stop learning.
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Education sector deliverables
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Academic & Alumni Events
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Annual Reports (Digital & Print)
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Branding & Brand Guidelines
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Course Brochures
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Exhibition Banners & Stands
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Explainer Animations
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Infographic Design
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Interactive Documents
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Podcast & Webcast Branding
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Presentations & Pitches
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Prospectuses (Digital & Print)
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Signage (Digital & Print)
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Social Media Assets
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Virtual Exhibition Platforms
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Website Banners
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Entire websites or specific landing pages (designed & developed in Wix or WordPress)
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Why choose Garlic?
We are committed to and working towards sustainable business practices. If printed materials are necessary, then we recommend that our clients use paper sourced from well managed forests (FSC) and biodegradable inks if possible. We are a proud 1% for the Planet member, committing 1% of our annual income to support environmental organisations.
Garlic’s clients will testify to our ability to listen attentively, to understand the complexity of their product or service and to remain focussed throughout the design process. We’re passionate and committed about delivering tangible results for your business. View client testimonials here
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Our design process ensures projects meet deadlines and stay on budgets but also helps to spark our clients thinking. Clients expect us to voice an opinion, to challenge them, and to push the creative boundaries towards the deadline. Don’t worry if you’re new to briefing design projects – view our design process here
With over 25 years diverse graphic design experience in both print and digital, we are confident we can deliver creative solutions to surpass your expectations. Garlic has now successfully completed over 3,500 design and branding projects, all perfectly seasoned with creativity. See the creative results for yourself
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