Making a familiar promise feel true.
Pingree School, a coeducational independent day school north of Boston, competes for families in one of the country’s most crowded independent school markets. Nearly every school in that market promises small classes, individual attention, and students who are known. Families hear those words at every open house and school fair, until they stop meaning much.
Pingree’s commitment to seeing and supporting the distinctive talents of every student runs through how its students learn, grow, and build confidence. The admissions team needed a message that would bring that commitment through clearly and in Pingree’s own voice. It also needed materials that could show families, not just tell them, what that commitment looks like in practice.
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“We See You”
With our design partners, we guided Pingree through a discovery process that surfaced its enduring promise: an individualized program that gives every student the space, time, and attention to stretch their thinking, explore their capabilities, and build lasting confidence.
That promise became a simple, direct theme, “We See You,” with meanings on several levels and plenty of room for creative expression. We built an admissions messaging platform around it that balances Pingree’s academic excellence with its student-centered approach, then carried it into a modular viewbook, photography that reflects how students and faculty see their world, and the website homepage.