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What we do
Four services.
One argument.
That your firm should look, on paper and on screen, exactly as capable as it is on site. Everything below serves that.
A name on a
van is a
billboard.
Most trade firms are running the most valuable advertising space they will ever own — four vans, a hoarding, thirty polo shirts — and wasting it on a logo drawn in twenty minutes.
Included
- Naming review, where it is needed
- Primary mark and secondary marks
- Colour, type and layout system
- Written brand guidelines
Applied to
- Vehicle livery and wraps
- Workwear and PPE
- Site hoardings and signage
- Stationery, invoices, quotes
You end up with
Every artwork file, in every format, owned outright by you. No licence, no monthly fee to keep using your own logo, and no call to us when your signwriter needs a vector.
Built for a
phone in
a van.
Seven in ten people who look you up are doing it on a phone, one-handed, in under a minute. If they cannot see what you do and press call in that time, the site has failed — however handsome it is on a desktop.
- Design and build, hand-written, no page-builder bloat
- Quote and enquiry flows that ask the right questions
- Project galleries you can update yourself
- Hosting, backups, updates and aftercare
- Accessible to WCAG 2.2 AA, tested on real devices
Things people
actually keep.
Our oldest discipline and the one nobody else in this sector offers. It gets a page of its own.
The print work
Between us and the job
Everything we make gets used on a site.
WeatherVinylDirty handsBad lightA phone screen at arm’s length
Everything
they find
when they look.
Your website is one result out of nine. The other eight — the map listing, the reviews, the photo someone tagged you in, the directory entry from 2016 with the old number — are the ones deciding it.
- Google Business Profile, properly built out
- Review requests that people actually complete
- Social templates your team can fill in from site
- Photography direction — what to shoot and how
- Old and wrong listings tracked down and corrected
Five stages.
No mystery.
You will always know what is happening, what it costs, and what we need from you next.
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01
Site visit
A call, or we come to you. What the business is, where it is going, what is in the way.
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02
Survey
We audit what you have and look hard at who you are bidding against. You get a written summary and a fixed quote.
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03
Drawings
Two routes, properly worked up and shown in situ — on a van, on a phone, on a hoarding. Not eleven logos on a white page.
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04
Build
Design finished, artwork prepared, site built and tested, print specified and proofed on the actual stock.
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05
Handover
Every source file, written guidelines, a session with your team, and someone on the end of a phone afterwards.
Prices, on
the website.
Radical, apparently. These are honest starting points — you get a fixed quote after the survey, and it does not move unless you change the brief.
£3,500
from- Mark and identity system
- Colour and type
- Livery and workwear artwork
- Written guidelines
£6,000
from- Design and build
- Up to 8 pages
- Enquiry and quote flows
- First year hosting
£14,500
from- Identity, website and presence
- Livery, workwear, signage
- Capability brochure
- Photography direction
£9,500
per issue, from- Editorial planning
- Writing and art direction
- 32–48pp design
- Print management
All prices exclude VAT and third-party costs such as print, wrapping and photography, which we quote separately at cost. Payment in three stages. No retainer you cannot leave with thirty days’ notice.
The awkward
questions.
Mostly by being a smaller, more boring proposition. We do not sell retainers, we do not report on impressions, and we do not own anything of yours when we finish — every source file is handed over. If a job is not right for us we say so on the first call rather than three months in.
Yes. About half of what we do starts that way. We will tell you honestly if we think the identity underneath it is the actual problem, but it is your money and your call.
Not as a monthly service, no. We build sites that are technically sound and fast, which is most of the battle, and we will set up your Google Business Profile properly. For ongoing paid advertising we will point you at people who do only that and do it well.
An identity on its own, four to six weeks. Identity and website together, eight to ten. A magazine, six weeks from first editorial meeting to delivered pallet. The main variable is how quickly you can get us photographs and sign things off.
Possibly, and we would rather say so than take the money. Below roughly £250k of turnover the honest answer is usually that a good logo, decent photographs and a tidy one-page site will do more for you than anything we would charge for. We are happy to say that on a call.
No pitch. No deck.
Let’s have
a look at it.
Forty-five minutes on a call. If we are not the right fit we will say so.