Based in Melbourne

-37° 49' 17.76" S

145° 02' 12.12" E

Based in Melbourne

-37° 49' 17.76" S

145° 02' 12.12" E

VRV SCHOOL

#branding #identitydesign #educationalinstitution

VRV SCHOOL

#branding #identitydesign #educationalinstitution

2022

Team: Harish Sundar

Status: Branding Completed, Website in progress

My role: Brand and visual design, Research, Analysis, Implementation, Marketing strategy, Website design
Tools used: Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, Figma, Framer

Collaboration:

The Health Transformation Lab, RMIT


Team: Harish Sundar, Sarah Bartley, Saumya Mutneja


Status: Proposed & in further development

Clients introduction

Valluvar Vidhyalaya Matriculation Higher secondary school is a co-educational higher secondary school with a long history of serving the Srivilliputhur population. They cater for 1300 pupils from kindergarten to standard 12 for the past 25 years. VRV has evolved into one of the region's top private schools, with a thriving environment supporting students and young brains in management and equipped with sophisticated infrastructure.

Base requirement

An identity redesign was required in order to improve the institution's identity in light of the new infrastructure and managerial changes.

Services offered

Branding - Research, analysis, brand strategy, mood board, logo design, design collaterals, content and communication design, marketing material preparation

Challenges

Current Identity
Redesigning the brand identity via a modern lens to focus on the present and future audience, within a population already familiar with the previous brand identity, required deeper awareness and positioning in society through strategizing.

Educate
Learn more about the education business and the Srivilliputhur region, and how a new brand redesign might give a fresh facelift to adapt to the future market.

Visuals
Being a school working in a third-tier city, the quality of the visuals provided was falling short of professional standards and the new brand identity.

Logo conceptualisation

Logo conceptualisation

Thiruvalluvar, a celebrated Tamil poet and philosopher best known for his work Tirukkuṟaḷ, inspired the school's name. Due to the overuse of Thiruvalluvar imagery, we sought to improve the school's image with a modern and likeable approach. As a result, the students' and community's common reference to the school as "VRV" has been adopted as the formal identity, and we built the brand around this. We looked into alternative options for blending the old and new logo marks.

Thiruvalluvar, a celebrated Tamil poet and philosopher best known for his work Tirukkuṟaḷ, inspired the school's name. Due to the overuse of Thiruvalluvar imagery, we sought to improve the school's image with a modern and likeable approach. As a result, the students' and community's common reference to the school as "VRV" has been adopted as the formal identity, and we built the brand around this. We looked into alternative options for blending the old and new logo marks.

Thiruvalluvar, a celebrated Tamil poet and philosopher best known for his work Tirukkuṟaḷ, inspired the school's name. Due to the overuse of Thiruvalluvar imagery, we sought to improve the school's image with a modern and likeable approach. As a result, the students' and community's common reference to the school as "VRV" has been adopted as the formal identity, and we built the brand around this. We looked into alternative options for blending the old and new logo marks.

Logo deliverables

Logo deliverables

Brand colours

Brand colours

Primary colour:

Philippine Green

RGB: R0 G126 B64

CMYK: C89 M26 Y100 K13

HEX: #007e40

Primary colour:

Sizzling Sunrise

RGB: R251 G219 B0

CMYK: C3 M10 Y100 K0

HEX: #fbdb00

Secondary colour:

Chinese Black

RGB: R18 G18 B18

CMYK: C1 M1 Y1 K93

HEX: #121212

Secondary colour:

White

RGB: R255 G255 B255

CMYK: C0 M0 Y0 K0

HEX: #ffffff

Tertiary colour:

Venetian Red

RGB: R204 G21 B18

CMYK: C0 M90 Y91 K20

HEX: #CC1512

Typography

Typography

CLEOPATRA

H1 - Heading

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Roboto

Secondary Heading

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Raleway

Body

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Raleway

Body

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Concluding thoughts

The outcome pleased the management. I was offered the position of design consultant for the client's future design needs. This role provided me with hands-on experience convincing multiple decision-makers on the client side and using my communication design skills to create materials for the Srivilliputhur population.

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  • Currently living in Melbourne, the aboriginal land of Kulin Nation, I would like to acknowledge the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People throughout Australia and their continuing spiritual relationships and connections to their unceded Land and country.

© 2022 Harish Kumar Sundar Raman. All Rights reserved.

© 2022 Harish Kumar Sundar Raman.

All Rights reserved.