Loyola High School
of Los Angeles
A modern experience rooted in tradition
As one of the top-ranked all-boys Jesuit high schools in the country, Loyola was in need of a website redesign to modernize the look of their site and improve usability for both current and future students, parents, and staff. We updated the site design, maintaining the traditions of their over 150 year history. In partnership with bluefeet, we reworked the content flow to make navigating the site easy and showcase why they are so unique.
Project Scope
Strategic Design Meets Impactful Storytelling
Loyola wanted the website to be a meaningful experience that demonstrates their elite education to future students and parents, while also a resource for current students, parents, and staff. Prior to designing, we went through rounds of architecture and wireframes that detailed the site structure and content organization to ensure all information was easily accessible.
With wireframes established, our design team was challenged to take their traditional branding and give it a modern twist. We selected a clean, san serif typeface for use in the navigation, sub-headings, and body copy to give the site a modern look as well as increase legibility. We balanced this with a serif typeface for headings to maintain a feeling of scholar and tradition. We pushed the traditional grid layout by overlapping and slightly off-setting shapes to give it a modern edge, and incorporated large-scale imagery and video to give future students and parents a real glimpse into life at Loyola.
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Information That’s
Easy to Find
At Loyola, community is important. From their commitment to the students and families they serve, to alumni and staff, and the surrounding area. For them, taking advantage of the opportunity to share information and connect online, from anywhere, was a necessity. We developed an accessible website experience that is easy to navigate from any device, so critical communications aren’t missed.
Looping in the Alumni
Loyola is not only devoted to their future and current students, but to students of the past. They have an active alumni community that is a huge contributor to the school’s long-term success. We designed and built an online hub called, The Cub Chronicle, for alumni to connect and stay up to speed on news and events. In addition, we created an alumni email template so their staff could send regular communications that would stand out in their inbox.
A Virtual Celebration
We all experienced the impact COVID had in changing in-person events to virtual. Loyola’s class of 2020 graduation was no different. We helped Loyola create a special virtual graduation complete with video tributes, senior spotlights, a photo gallery, and a live streamed ceremony among other things.
