Christ Community Chapel
A comprehensive brand system, Next Steps space, and web application designed to empower a church to reimagine its mission.
Christ Community Chapel is known as a large regional church in Northeast Ohio. In the next 30 years, they hope to grow in both size and community-centeredness. This shift in perspective ignited a new mission for the church to “Reimagine life because of Jesus.” We worked alongside CCC to craft a comprehensive brand identity, Next Steps Space, and Next Steps Web App that would highlight a culture which empowers people to meaningfully invest in substantive, Christ-centered, and lifelong relationships.
Throughout the process, we sought to create a comprehensive system that would help their internal design team to communicate effectively across their many events, programs, services, and spaces.
Client
Christ Community Chapel
Hudson, Ohio
Services
Brand Identity, Brand Guidelines, Logo Design, Stationery, Print Collateral, Strategic Workshops, Web App Design and Development, User Experience, Information Architecture, Signage, Environmental Graphics, Fabrication Coordination
Year
2019
A new brand system was created to introduce a comprehensive, cohesive, and unified experience for those engaging with CCC. The spectrum provides examples of both functional settings and expressive settings with a range of opportunities in between. Brand elements—the logo, lockups, typography, color, and texture—can be thoughtfully selected from the system to communicate most effectively. A set of icons was created to represent the church’s motives—the ways in which they pursue their mission.
The form of the C monogram challenges viewers to see church community members as one—radiating around a central point as a symbol of fellowship in Christ.
We designed the Next Steps Space to engage both new visitors and long-time members alike. The space includes a slatted pine wall and a custom environmental design that reflects the qualities of the C monogram, while custom iPad panels house a custom web app designed and developed to help people get involved with CCC. The Web App prompts people with a series of questions, which then combine to create a custom-generated set of “next steps” unique to each person. These can then be sent via text message or email to each individual.
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