Seedlings Early Learning

Seedlings Early Learning

Seedlings Early Learning

CLIENT

CLIENT

Seedlings Early Learning Centre

YEAR

2026

Built for the day they need the enquiry form again.

Built for the day they need the enquiry form again.

Built for the day they need the enquiry form again.

Two desktop views of the Seedlings Early Learning website: the homepage with location cards for Longhurst and Knights Stream Park, and a Why Choose Us section with a parent testimonial
Two desktop views of the Seedlings Early Learning website: the homepage with location cards for Longhurst and Knights Stream Park, and a Why Choose Us section with a parent testimonial
Two desktop views of the Seedlings Early Learning website: the homepage with location cards for Longhurst and Knights Stream Park, and a Why Choose Us section with a parent testimonial

Seedlings runs two early learning centres in Halswell, Christchurch: Longhurst and Knights Stream Park. They’re Reggio-inspired, bicultural and run by owners who care how children learn. The old site showed none of that. And like most centres in New Zealand they were full, so the site’s job wasn’t to chase enrolments. It was to reflect the centres properly and be ready for when that changes. The logo was a tidy-up, not a redesign. Each element of the existing mark was kept and given a clear meaning: the child at the centre, a nurturing frame, a feather for the korowai teachers wear, and five roots for Seedlings’ five core values. Brand voice guidelines set the tone: warm, grounded and plain-spoken, with te reo woven through. The Framer site is structured around what parents actually ask: what a day looks like, who the teachers are, how enrolment works. Original photography from Ghost&Co shows real children and real educators. Enquiry forms are built and ready, switched off until the centres have space. In the first few hours after launch the site had 290 unique visitors, a 26% bounce rate and nearly six pages per visit.

Service

Brand Refresh

UI / UX Design

Framer Build

While at

Lariat

Industry

Early Childhood Education

Three mobile screens from the Seedlings website showing Our Story and Directors, What We Offer at Longhurst, and the centres’ teaching approach, on a green background
Seedlings logo before and after: the previous orange wordmark with a tree illustration, and the refreshed cream wordmark with a child, leaves and roots inside an oval frame on dark teal
Animated walkthrough of the Seedlings brand guidelines, covering brand voice, the logo, colour palette, Solway typeface, graphic elements and brand applications
Seedlings colour palette: Midnight and Linen as primary colours, with Olive Green, Soft Lavender and Clay Red as secondary colours
Seedlings illustrated graphic elements: leaves, flowers, birds, an eye and other hand-cut shapes in teal, olive, lavender and clay red
Seedlings brand applications: the centre building with new signage, a Nau mai, haere mai flyer, a stone wall sign, a navy polo shirt, a tote bag and the website on a laptop

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