“Before working with Jacob and Bolsta, we struggled with consistency across our school’s communications. Our documents and information lacked a cohesive, professional look. Since working together, we now have consistency across numerous areas: an updated website with a more formal feel, a new school prospectus, and even simple but important details like a school-wide email signature. What stood out most was Jacob’s ability to consolidate data and translate it into something relevant and meaningful for our school community. He was easy to work with, understood that every school is different, and genuinely listened to our needs. If a colleague from another school asked about Bolsta, I’d tell them to call Jacob straight away.”
Peter Henderson, Principal
Namoi Valley Christian School is a small rural school with a big heart, and our Enrolment Journey Audit had surfaced something specific: most families engaged with the school by coming on-site. The visits were working. But without a prospectus, parents walked away with nothing in their hands, no clear reminder of the school’s value and story. The conversations were meaningful; the supporting materials just weren’t carrying them.
My favourite part of this one was the phone interviews with staff and parents. It’s the sort of thing that separates Bolsta from a creative agency in many ways: I actually spoke with people. I asked them about the parts they loved, the reservations they had, the ways the school had come through for them. Those conversations refined the language, clarified the storylines, and surfaced the moments that actually reflect Namoi’s spirit.
We storyboarded the entire prospectus before we designed a single page, so we had a deep understanding of the document’s story arc before we even started. Then, using our collaborative design approach in Miro, we co-created the structure, tone, and flow with the staff themselves, keeping it tied to the messaging strategy we’d built together earlier. The result was right-sized: a prospectus that matched the school’s scale and character rather than pretending to be something it isn’t.
The process also became a chance to evolve their visual identity gently, honouring the long-standing logo while extending the brand system around it so the whole thing felt fresh and cohesive.
The school now has a prospectus they’re proud to hand to families. It feels like them. And it became a foundation for the broader updates that followed across the website and their marketing materials.
A single, well-made prospectus turned those good conversations into something a family could carry home, and gave the staff the confidence to tell their own story.
A right-sized prospectus the school is proud to hand to families.
Language and storylines drawn from real interviews with parents and staff.
A gently evolved visual identity, honouring the long-standing logo, that set up the website and marketing updates that followed.
Orange Christian School’s executive team asked for a virtual tour. Instead of the usual static 360 images, we ran a tour design process and turned its output into a video script, delivering the tour video plus a header video and a bank of B-roll.
MCCC’s prospectus was storyboarded in the workshop as a low-fidelity prototype, mapped to the messaging strategy and the new website’s language, and built on the photography and graphic elements of the wider brand world.
