ARHA

The Alexandria Redevelopment and Housing Authority’s primary mission is to provide sanitary and safe dwelling accommodations to persons of low income at rents they can afford.

Challenge

Alexandria, Virginia’s growing population and housing needs outgrew ARHA’s brand and tech stack.

Solution

New Target created a fresh visual identity including a new logo and a clean website design that can scale as needed.

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Results

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Strategy

New Target has been headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia since our founding in 1998. This meant we were aware of the community and the role ARHA plays in it. The project presented us with a unique opportunity to rethink what ARHA means to the community and how to best visually showcase that.

Identity Design & Creative Vision

Our goal was to create a logo that’s memorable and recognizable. The use of acronyms is not new in the Northern Virginia area, so this made sense to be a base. Pulling inspiration from a skyline, we worked the ARHA letters into a simple, memorable logo.

Additionally, we expanded the new logo to a brand book and vision for a website that puts Alexandria’s citizens first.

Website Design

We created a website that ties government aesthetics with community sentiment. The visual hierarchy ensures that the most important information is seen first and a mega menu provides an easy way to navigate to the content throughout the site.

Development

We chose Drupal because of its web services and ability to integrate well using APIs. An important component of the development was the integration with the rent and maintenance portal which allows tenants to have direct 24/7 access to the maintenance crew. ARHA updates their list of available units daily, so we also used Google maps’ functionality to allow those needing housing to see where the units are located. Drupal’s survey module helps provide constant feedback to the agency. We continue to support ARHA’s needs including maintaining and supporting their website and providing feature updates as needed.
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How we did it.

The cornerstone of your identity is an authentic brand story. We work with you to establish a clearly defined brand strategy for your goals – a strategy complementary to your brand’s visual voice.

The creative we design is heavily influenced by the framework for innovation. We design media not just to please our clients, but to engage and delight their customers, members, or constituents. We put people first.

We’ll help you select the right technology, and code it right. Our development team is passionate about using the right mix of open source, off-the-shelf, and hosted solutions to solve complex problems.

Our engineering team understands you have multiple systems that need to communicate to provide a seamless user experience. Connecting software online is our speciality.

We understand clients have a choice of website hosting providers. Our service goes beyond stability, up time, and more to a personalized approach that meets you where you are today, and prepares you for your tomorrow

From search engine marketing strategies to social management to campaign activations and monitoring, we create bespoke digital marketing strategies for your audience.

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