Eloise Aitken for The Common Press

Eloise Aitken, student on the BA Graphic Design programme at UWE Bristol has been paired with Shoreditch based LGBTQ+ bookshop and event space The Common Press.
Having been tasked with assisting the organisation in promoting a crowdfunding campaign, Eloise developed an elaborate foldable poster that functions both as information sheet and call to donate.

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Emma Robinson for Tell It

Emma Robinson from the UWE Bristol BA Graphic Design degree has worked for Harrow based Parents and Child support organisation Tell It. In collaboration with fellow student Cassidy Mahler working on a new logo, Emma developed a flyer anouncing two weekly support groups held by the centre, with the aim to attract wider audiences.

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Alice Chen for Save the Warehouses

BA Graphic and Media Design student Alice Chen, from London College of Communication, designed the visual elements to be used in a document illustrating the importance of saving the Omega Works complex, a former piano factory, now serving as home for a large number of people, as well as hosting a gallery and work spaces from insensitive development. The residents have formed the group Save the Warehouses to advocate their case. The developed graphic elements, as well as an illustration by We Design for the Community fellow student Akshu Patel, have been used by Alice on a printed poster showcasing the facilities and value to the community of Omega Works.

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Stephanie McEwan for The Musical Museum

UWE Bristol BA Graphic Design student Stephanie McEwan has been looking to improve the visual identity of The Musical Museum, who is currently looking to reach new and younger audiences. With the content also developed by a We Design for the Community Student, Nazym Kairatkyzy, Stephanie has designed a new information sheet for the museum, showcasing the facilities and events they offer, and updating the existing design to a more contemporary feel.

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Will Vaughan for Granville Community Kitchen

Will Vaughan, BA Graphic Design student at UWE Bristol has been working on a design for food charity and community space Granville Community Kitchen.
The long term aim being the design of a template for an e-newsletter and a website, Will has been looking into designing graphic elements that will help the organisation to put together a coherent series of designs. Will’s design elements have been brought together on an exemplary flyer introducing the organisation as a whole.

willcvaughan.com

Ayva Lily Tierney for the London School of Mosaic

MA Graphic Arts student Ayva Lily Tierney from UWE Bristol has been given a brief to redesign a logo and use it on a flyer for the London School of Mosaic, a versatile space offering classes in the craft of mosaic laying, creative workspaces and a community space. The challenge consisted in updating the current logo to a more contemporary feel, while at the same time reflecting the diverse offer, that goes beyond the title London School of Mosaic.

www.instagram.com/ayvalilyart

Talitha Thomas Kelly for Helios Centre

Talitha Thomas Kelly from the BA Culture Media and Creative Industries at King’s College undertook a series of photoshoots for Helios Centre, a centre that provides therapy and support to people suffering from long-term chronic illness.
Talitha’s brief consisted in photographing the centre’s activities in an honest and serene way, allowing them to use these in all new communications instead of having to revert to stock photography. This includes the flyer designed by We Design for the Community co-student Jemimah Sutton.

talithasays.com

Fatimah Mujtaba for Living Way Ministries

University of Greenwich’s BA Graphic and Digital Design student Fatimah Mujtaba has been working on a new visual identity for church Living Way Ministries, and their affiliated community programme Sowing Stitches.
Her designs involved a revised logo for both initiatives, as well as two flyers, promoting the services offered by the organisation and a regular youth club.

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Jemimah Sutton for Helios Center

Jemimah Sutton from UWE Bristol, BA Graphic Design, designed a new logo and a flyer for Helios Centre, a centre that provides therapy and support to people suffering from long-term chronic illness. The aim of the designs was to convert the existing logo to a new mark that presents the centre as a serious and modern institution providing invaluable healthcare services. The flyer announces all services offered by the centre and features the new logo and photography from We Design for the Community student Talitha Thomas Kelly.

jemimahsutton.com

Nazym Kairatkyzy for the Musical Museum

Studying on the MA Global Media and Communication at University of Warwick, we have briefed Nazym Kairatkyzy with developing the content for a complex but poignant info leaflet and social media posts for The Musical Museum.
Struggling with a somewhat old fashioned image, the museum has launched an attempt to reach new and younger audiences, by launching a presence on TikTok, as well as more promotions for their diverse range of events. Nazym’s text has been used on a design developed by We Design for the Community student Stephanie McEwan.

linkedin.com/in/nazym-kairatkyzy

Si Yi Li and David Povilaika for Tomorrow’s World

The work below is the result of a successfull collaboration between Si Yi Li and David Povilaika.

Si Yi Li, MA Design Products student from the Royal College of Art has been working on a design strategy for electronic music & tech incubator Tomorrow’s World, an initiative by On Da Beat studios. Her work consisted in a vocabulary of music and tech related visual elements, a strategy for social media, as well as a redesign logo. To gather with We Design for the Community co-student Dovydas Povilaika Si Yi designed a flyer for the organisation showcasing the new strategy.

www.lisiyi.net

Design Management graduate David Povilaika from London College of Communication has been taken to look at communications by electronic music & tech incubator Tomorrow’s World, an initiative by On Da Beat studios.
Using AI-generated characters, Dovydas’s designs rely on a series of strategic graphic elements, developed in collaboration with fellow student Li Si Yi, with the aim of providing the organisation a vocabulary of music and tech related design elements that can be used across future communications.

www.davidpovilaika.com

Akshu Patel for Save the Warehouses

UWE Bristol MA Graphic Arts Student Akshu Patel designed an elaborate illustration for Save the Warehouses, Haringey.
Akshu used Sketch Up to create a simplified architectural drawing of the Omega Works complex, a former piano factory, now serving as home for a large number of people, as well as hosting a gallery and work spaces. The multifunctional use of the site has been highlighted on Akshu’s drawing, and used on a new flyer by We Design for the Community co-student Alice Chen.

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Laura Castelo for Stardust Arts

As part of her brief Laura Castelo, graduate from the BA Graphic and Digital Design degree at Greenwich University went to photograph two rehearsal sessions at the community run Steel Pan Orchestra Stardust Arts.
Together with a new logo and visual identity developed by We Design for the Community fellow student Jaclyn Solomon, the photos have been used on a new flyer, also designed by Laura, to help the organisation to attract new members.

lauracastelo.co.uk

Cassidy Mahler for Tell It

Falmouth University BA Graphic Design student Cassidy Mahler has been working on a new logo design for Parents and Child support organisation Tell It. Cassidy’s designs reflect the wide range of services offered by the organisation, and presents them in a friendly and positive way. The selected design has been featured on a flyer developed by We Design for the Community co-student Emma Robinson.

www.linkedin.com/in/cassidy-mahler

Jaclyn Solomon for Stardust Arts

Middlesex University BA Graphic Design graduate Jaclyn Solomon has been working on a new logo and visual identity for the community run Steel Pan Orchestra Stardust Arts.
Having proposed a variety of design routes, the selected design has been used on a flyer made in collaboration with fellow student on the programme Laura Castelo.

www.behance.net/NOISYDAZE

Megan Price for five Community Organisations

Megan Price delivered valuable design research for a series of posters for St Michael and All Angels Church, The Feminist Library, Homegrown in Tottenham, Zodiac Arts and Inkluder CIC. Megan provided written content and design compositions for posters to be displayed in local London Underground stations, supported by Art on the Underground. The posters aim to promote the work each organisation does in its community. The final poster designs were then designed in collaboration with Ronie Kempinska. 

meganprice.net

Matei Teodor for St Michael and All Angels Church

The Church of St Michael and All Angels, in Stoke Newington, organises a series of events welcoming all members of the community. This newly designed website by Teodor Matei (University of Greenwhich) promotes the organisation and its activities with a contemporary, inclusive look and feel.

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Megan Leach for Revert2Reality

Revert2Reality is based in north London and provides support for the middle eastern community and more. Megan Leach designed a new leaflet for the organisation to promote itself to both their service users and to potential donors.

https://www.instagram.com/designby_megan_
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Siana Bezuhanova for ESDEG

Siana Bezuhanova was given the task to redesign a report for ESDEG outlining challenges faced by families with children with special needs in relation to schooling in West London. She created a simple and engaging layout and a series of new diagrams to guide the reader through the complexity of information.

https://sianasbezuhanova.wixsite.com/sianabezuhanovaportf

Marvis Anozie for Project Turnover

Project Turnover is an organisation based in Feltham, London, offering new opportunities and a second chance to young people. Marvis Anozie is a graphic design BA student at UWE Bristol. Marvis supported the organisation by designing a series of engaging and informative posts for their social media channels, including a printable Pdf.

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Owen Chiou for Inkluder CIC

Owen Chiou studies graphic design communication at the Chealsea College of Arts. Owen designed a brand new website for Inkluder CIC, an organisation based in Barnet providing a safe space, events and engagement for LGBTQIA+ people and beyond. The website is a combination of an easy navigation with uplifting graphic elements. The reference to ink and printing draws a humorous, yet historical connection with the borough of Barnet the famous Henry 'Inky' Stephens. 

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Sze Hang Lo for Homegrown in Tottenham

This talented illustrator form London College of Communication has created a typographic system for Homegrown in Tottenham, a grassroots political organisation fighting for social justice in north London by encouraging critical thinking, facilitating education and organising a series of events. The logo, icons, bespoke typeface and colour palette have a friendly, yet political look and feel and can be used on the organisation’s communication items such as their website, social media accounts, flyers, etc…

http://www.szehanglo.com

Lingyan Chen for Lewisham Youth Theatre

RCA Design Research student Lingyan Chen has worked at a participatory-based research for the Lewisham Youth Theatre with the aim of sing posting and modifying the elevation of the organisation’s new venue in south London. Ideas were developed in group workshops and then applied to the building in a speculative proposal.

www.lingyanchen.com

James Li for The Recshop

University of Greenwich Graphic Design BA graduate James Li has used Figma to redesign the website of The Recshop. This CIC based in Wood Green organises events such as open mic, gigs, musical training  and recording facilities to support young musicians in North London. The design proposal also includes a new logo with an improved, more contemporary typographic look.

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Adira Andlay for Homegrown in Tottenham

Adira Andlay, an RCA and Imperial College London student of MA/MSc Global Innovation Design, created a social media strategy for local activist group Homegrown in Tottenham (a grassroots political organisation fighting for social justice in north London by encouraging critical thinking, facilitating education and organising a series of events) as the organisation at this stage did not have any online presence.

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Evan Cummins for The Feminist Library

Website redesign for the Feminist Library by Evan Cummins, a UAL Camberwell graphic design BA student. The Feminist Library was set up in 1975 and is currently based in south London. They organise plenty of events, maintain a prominent archive and were looking for the chance to enhance their visibility. The new website design is radical and empowering.

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Kate Martin for Citizens Advice Wandsworth

Kate Martin from UWE Bristol graphic design BA designed a series of different design proposals for a logo and flyer introducing a new programme by Citizens Advice Wandsworth called AFA (Advice First Aid) which goal is to share advice and knowledge in relation to the cost of living crisis in London.

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Charlie Rozario for Zodiac Arts

UWE Bristol graphic design BA student Charlie Rozario has used WIX to redesign Zodiac Arts website in close collaboration with the head of the organisation. The new website attempts to simplify and restructure the content previously found onto two existing sites into one clear and accessible page. Starting off from martial arts techniques, Zodiac Arts provides sport, wellbeing and recreational workshops for people with special needs and disabilities, particularly wheelchair users.

rozariodesigns.com

Ronie Kempinska for The Feminist Library

A new leaflet designed for south London-based the Feminist Library by UWE Bristol MA student Ronie Kempinska.

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Zee Mirza for Choices

Choices is a charity organisation supporting young people who are at risk of exclusion, not in education, employment or training (NEET). Despite the extremely valuable social impact this organisation has in the community, their previous online presence was outdated and with the support of Zee Mirza (UAL Chelsea) we were able to provide a website redesign and restructuring of the content.

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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