Amy Wright for Latin American House

A brand design project for Latin American House, an organisation that, amongst other activities, provide advice and education and hold community events and workshops for the latin American community and beyond, in London. The re-design involved a new logo, a colour scheme, and layout proposals for social media pages, posters and front of house signage. While this new visual identity can be appealing to a broader audience, for the colour palette, Amy took inspiration from the latin American environment and homes, in order to create a welcoming atmosphere. 

Amy Wright's website: amymorag.com

Danni Xu for Samafal

This project aims to help Samafal update their website photos with new, more authentic images. Samafal has been established to support BAME women and their families to overcome barriers and integrate widely into the community. Danni Xu became part of the Samafal family for a day, and took a series of shots to represent the organisation’s different aspects and activities.

@dannnnni_xu

Alex Abadjeva for CraftA

In this Website redesign project, Alex Abadjeva, who studies at Central Saint Martins, reorganised the content and created a new, friendly, accessible website for CraftA, a South East London based organisation holding arts and crafts workshops to “alleviate loneliness” amongst the elderly living in the area. While introducing more handcrafted graphic elements in the layout, here, the aim was simply to provide the organisation with a more effective web presence, suitable to their users and donors.

Alex Abadjeva's website: alexabadjieva.design

Carina Kanbi and Xiaolu Zheng for PEACH

Xiaolu Zheng is a graphic designer and illustrator, and Carina Kanbi is a researcher and curator. After visiting Custom House and meeting PEACH members, the two conducted a series of interviews to highlight the work of PEACH, how they overcome housing insecurity and to showcase some of their extraordinary team. The interesting content that emerged from this interaction was combined with a series of visuals to be translated into a publication, posters and social media posts.

Xiaolu Zheng: lunaticlu.com
Carina Kanbi: @carinatenewaa

Ishqha Khidzr for The Showroom

The Showroom is a not-for-profit organisation commissioning upcoming artists to interact with the local community through exhibitions, workshops and other activities. Ishqha’s initial task was to work in collaboration with artist Adam Shield and following his creative direction, to translate a flyer’s content into Arabic and print it in using riso graph. As a follow up, he then created a set of graphic elements to be composed into a series of posters to promote the Showroom’s Saturday Workshops in the area.

Ishqha Khidzr's website: ishqhakhidzr.org

Chigbu Elechi for Thamesmead Community Benefit Society

Chigbu Elechi, a student from UAL Camberwell college of Arts, joined the Bexley Eco Festival hosted by Thamesmead Community Benefit Society, and documented her visit through of a series of analogue photographs and recorded conversations. Chigbu created a genuine, personal and emotional connection with the event and the people involved. All this emerged in text and images that were produced, which will be used for the organisation’s website first blog post. 

Chigbu Elechi's website: uncleesthermadethis.com

Alice Goodliffe for Mimosa House

Mimosa House is a radically inclusive art space based in central London. Alice designed a booklet to be distributed both digitally and in print to promote the gallery’s activities to patreons, as well as a large-scale banner to be displayed in the front of house. Alice decided to experiment with cyanotypes of mimosa flowers, the symbol of international women day, in order to represent the gallery’s ethos: an open and accessible space showcasing women and queer artists work. 

Alice Goodliffe's Instagram: @alcgdlff

Jiefei Zhan for Money A+E

A set of icons and illustrations for Money A+E’s new project, aiming to provide care and accommodation for young homeless in Newham, as well as immigrants, ethnic minorities and ex-offenders. These friendly graphics represent how the service provided should help the users “move on” in their journey through the programme, their life and the community. Jiefei developed this colourful, uplifting and energetic visual language to be appealing to youngsters, and to better suit the values of this specific project.

Jiefei Zhan's Instagram @mayakumoday

Parth Gupta for Sida

Sida - Somali Integration and Development Association - works directly with the Somali community in the UK and overseas to provide help and services in any way possible: hosting workshops, courses, organising inclusive events, etc… Parth has worked directly with the organisation to restructure and re-design their website, in order to better communicate what they do and to help them reach a specific audience more effectively, making it easier for people in need of help to access the services, while also facilitating getting involved, volunteering and donating. 

Parth Gupta's Behance: behance.net/pantomess-studio

Ellie Cassidy for Migrants in Culture

Ellie’s project for Migrants In Culture was to take their current design map and transform it into a new format that could be more easily read and understood. The previous design held all the information set across one single page so this took the approach of a small booklet format instead, where the text had more space to sit, with illustrations to accompany as a visual guide.

Ellie Cassidy's Behance: www.behance.net/elliecassidy1

Fyona Seguin for Money A+E

A set of new guidelines (colour palette, type and logo) produced for MoneyA+E’s new spin off project. For the creation of the visual identity, Fyona explored different routes: some bolder and more modern and others based on hand-written type, evoking more personal and organic values. The graphic elements were then integrated in different branded content (website, online banners, etc…) to promote the project to sponsors and partners.

Fyona Seguin's website: fyonaseguin.com

Beatrice Sangster for The Showroom

Briefed by We Design For The Community, Beatrice acted as a researcher and strategist to develop an overview of the design and functioning of websites of similar organisations internationally, as well as commenting on The Showroom’s existing website in the light of their current activities and future plans. The programme involved meeting with members of the Showroom and working in conversation to better understand their activities, their target audience and understand how they would like to see themselves in the medium term future in the process of redesigning their web presence through a new website. 

Beatrice Sangster's website: sangsterbeatrice.co.uk

Rania Kinantan for DASH

Flyers and a banner design for DASH, a community organisation working with people with disabilities and aiming to encourage them to reach their full potential and be independence in life. Rania’s friendly and fun designs, which emphasises the organisations’ motto, aim to communicate positivity and inclusivity. The handmade graphics are a reference to the arts and craft workshops that DASH regularly organises.

Rania Kinantan's Instagram: @warminglight

Summer School 18-22 July 2022

After selecting students and organisations, they were paired up and bespoke briefs writing for each specific collaboration. The students did some preliminary design work and deliverd these on July 18th. Then, during one week of hard work, the projects were developed further into more refined graphic design projects.

A variety of different projects were produced (photography, posters, flyers, websites, research, social media posts, etc...) to a high quality standard. The level of engagement, enthusiasm, and honest emotional drive was outstanding. During the week the students attended two workshops, one on socialm edia management by Helen Gale, and one on "writing with an impact" by Anna Faherty. The organisations finally received a series of outcomes and joined us on the Friday for an afternoon of "Show and Tell".

Some of the research produced: https://padlet.com/ugolinimarco/wedesignforthecommunity

Thanks to all participants:

Alex Abadjeva - Central Saint Martins
Ishqa Abdul - UWE Bristol Graphic Design
Alice Goodliffe - UAL Camberwell College of Arts
Ellie Cassidy - UWE Bristol Graphic Design
Chigbu Elechi - UAL Camberwell College of Arts
Parth Gupta - Central Saint Martins
Rania Kinantan - University of Westminster
Naiara Nunes - University of Edinburgh
Beatrice Sangster - RCA 
Fyona Seguin - UAL
Carina Tenewa Kanbi - Central Saint Martin
Amy Wright - UWE Bristol Graphic Design
Danni Xu - Kingston School of Art
Jieifei Zhan - RCA
Xiaolu Zheng - UAL Camberwell College of Arts

A special thanks to:

Emily Wood - Course Leader, Graphic Design BA - UAL Camberwell College of Arts