Campus Gate

A new student residence. A clear picture of life inside.

Campus Gate needed to introduce its residence before opening its doors. We created the brand and website, turned floor layouts into 2D plans and 3D images, and designed marketing materials that brought the same identity into the neighbourhood.

The new Campus Gate website on a desktop monitor, beside a scale model of the residence and a rolled-up floor plan

Client: Campus Gate Residences
Industry: Student housing & real estate
Location: Toronto, Canada
Engagement: Brand identity · Website design & development · Floor-plan visualisation · Print & outdoor marketing

Context

The first residents needed something they could picture.

Campus Gate was preparing to offer premium student accommodation steps from the University of Toronto Scarborough. Spacious rooms, modern finishes, amenities, and convenient parking shaped the offering.

Before opening, the business needed a way to introduce the residence and build an interest list. Students and their families needed enough detail to understand the accommodation, compare their options, and decide whether to take the next step.

The Campus Gate residence from the street: timber-clad townhouses behind a dark fence and the Campus Gate entrance sign

A Campus Gate bathroom with a glass walk-in shower and a lit mirror

A Campus Gate kitchen with an island, stools and stainless appliances

The challenge

Help people understand a home they hadn’t visited.

Campus Gate needed to communicate what the rooms offered, how the floors were arranged, and what made the residence worth considering. That information had to work together across the website, property visuals, and printed marketing.

Our task was to make the offering tangible and give interested visitors a straightforward way to register their interest.

WebsiteRooms, pricing, amenities and an interest-list signup.
Property visuals2D floor plans and 3D renderings of every floor.
Print & outdoorBillboard and sandwich-board designs.

“OpenCore brought our vision for Campus Gate to life. From the website and branding to the floor-plan renderings and marketing materials, they helped us show future residents what makes this place special.”

Campus Gate Residences

Steve Page · Student housing, Toronto

The brand

Give the residence an identity of its own.

We created a visual identity that reflected Campus Gate’s approach to student living: comfortable, considered, and modern.

Warm brown tones, soft gradients, and clean typography established the direction. Applied across the website and marketing materials, the identity gave the residence a consistent and recognisable presence.

The website

Built around the questions that come before an enquiry.

We designed and developed a responsive website that introduced the residence and organised its key information into a clear journey.

The Campus Gate website on a laptop in a sunlit living room

Step 01
Understand the offering.
The opening sections brought together the residence’s location, accommodation and amenities, helping visitors quickly understand what Campus Gate offered.
Step 02
Compare the rooms.
Separate room options presented the differences in size, bathroom arrangements and floor location alongside pricing, with links to floor plans for context.
Step 03
Explore the surroundings.
Location information placed the residence in the context of student life — proximity to campus and nearby places to eat, exercise and spend time outdoors.
Step 04
Register interest.
Clear calls to action and an email signup gave visitors a simple way to stay informed ahead of opening.

Floor-plan visualisation

From a flat layout to a clearer sense of space.

We created two complementary views of the floors, starting with 2D drawings and then developing 3D renderings.

2D floor plans: understand the arrangement.

We designed SVG floor plans showing how each floor was laid out and how its spaces connected.

The drawings gave viewers a clear reference for understanding the arrangement. Their scalable format kept the plans sharp when enlarged.

3D renderings: picture the space.

We then created static 3D images of the layouts, adding depth and perspective to the same spaces.

These images helped translate the plans into a more tangible view of the floors. Together, the two formats made it easier to move from understanding the layout to imagining the space.

Print & outdoor

We extended the Campus Gate identity into billboard and sandwich-board designs.

Each format called for a different balance of information. Billboards needed a message that could register at a distance, while sandwich boards offered a closer introduction to the residence. Consistent branding connected these materials with the website, giving Campus Gate a unified presence across its physical and digital marketing.

A Campus Gate billboard with Spider-Man reading a paper on top: “The city needs Spider-Man, but you need Campus Gate”

A Campus Gate sandwich board outside the residence: “Welcome to Open House”, enter to win AirPods, 11 July 2026

The outcome

A connected set of tools to introduce the residence.

Campus Gate gained the brand, website, property visuals, and marketing materials to support its launch and leasing conversations.

01IdentityA distinct visual identity carried across digital and print.
02WebsiteA responsive website explaining the accommodation, amenities, pricing, and location.
03WebsiteAn interest-list signup supporting enquiries ahead of opening.
04Visualisation2D SVG floor plans and static 3D images showing the floor layouts.
05Print & outdoorBillboard and sandwich-board designs supporting local visibility.

A new student residence. A clear picture of life inside.

The first residents needed something they could picture.

Help people understand a home they hadn’t visited.

Give the residence an identity of its own.

Built around the questions that come before an enquiry.

Understand the offering.

Compare the rooms.

Explore the surroundings.

Register interest.

From a flat layout to a clearer sense of space.