BUDDING GROWING THRIVING
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BUDDING GROWING THRIVING
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BUDDING GROWING THRIVING
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BUDDING GROWING THRIVING
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Client

Lovell Homes

Project

Faraday Green

Services

Advertising

Brochure-ware

Marketing Campaign

Outdoor Media

Print Collateral

Video

Social Media

Photography

Marketing Suite

Identity Development

Miles Platting is a 264-acre inner city housing estate in East Manchester that Lovell Homes are turning into a sustainable, mixed tenure urban environment. This is a regenerative scheme in the truest sense and involves a comprehensive 15 year refurbishment programme of 1,520 existing council houses and flats and the creation of 1,800 new-build family homes and apartments.
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There was no place here for marketing spin and design artifice. Creating confidence, building trust and reinvigorating an entire community were vital short-term objectives, whilst the regeneration and renewal of East Manchester into a vibrant, community were key long-term goals.

A NEW WAY OF LIFE
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A NEW WAY OF LIFE
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A NEW WAY OF LIFE
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A NEW WAY OF LIFE
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Avoiding anything that could be perceived as a hard-sell, blatant marketeering or the corporatization of a community, we elected to build the communications strategy around a humble low-fi identity and simple visual language. To some degree this was anti-brand and anti-marketing, driven by information, community engagement and tangible evidences.

It’s been a real pleasure working with OnFire to develop the different phase of Platting Village. Faraday Green is a great example of how they combine strategic thinking with creativity to give each development its own unique brand-feel. In the case of Faraday Green, they perfectly communicated what it stood for and what it aimed to achieve, which is why it was welcomed with opened arms by local residents as well as new ones.

Rebecca Baird, Communications & Marketing Manager

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