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We build brands.

Then bring them to life.

A brand, design and content studio in Huddersfield, for established businesses.

We’ve been building brands for more than a decade, and we stay for what comes after: the catalogue, the stand, the website, the van. The same people design all of it, so five years on it still looks like one brand.

Twenty years in the industry, and a studio small enough that you deal directly with the people doing the design. We build brands that people who aren’t designers can use, and that still hold together years after launch.

Brand experience

  • adidas
  • The North Face
  • Nike
  • Uber
  • Eastpak
  • Dr. Martens
  • Icebreaker
  • Holland & Barrett
  • Morrisons
  • John Lewis
  • Red Bull

Retail and shopper marketing, visual merchandising and campaign work, some direct and some alongside the agencies that held the account.

Featured Work

Gladman brand refresh

Rebrand, guidelines and rollout

adidas Ultraboost Bible

The global launch Bible

Abode KBB stand

Exhibition stand graphics

How we work

Most projects run in this order: the brand, then the website, then everything printed, built or fixed to a van. Some clients arrive with a brand someone else made and start at the website.

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Branding

Brand positioning first, so we agree what the business is for before anything gets drawn. Then the identity, or a rebrand of the one you have, and brand guidelines written for the people who’ll use them, most of whom aren’t designers.

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Website

Web design from the same system as everything you print. Every page is designed and signed off before it’s built, so nothing gets handed to a stranger halfway through.

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Graphic design

Catalogues, exhibition stands, signage, packaging, point of sale, annual reports and van livery. It’s where most people meet your brand. We did Belvedere’s positioning, and five years later the livery on their new van.

See your brand the way everyone else does.

A free audit of your brand out in the world: the website, the print, the signage, the templates your own team fills in. We do the work, then walk you through it.

Start before you have a brief.

You don’t need a brief. A name, an email and a few lines about where things stand is enough. We’ll come back with questions, and tell you plainly how we can help.

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