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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.

01Brand identity

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.

Brand identity board for Kerrigan Groundworks, showing the monogram on its construction grid with the colour palette below.
Fig. 01Identity system, mark and palette.
Hands comparing printed colour swatches on a studio desk
Fig. 02Colour proofed on stock, not on a screen.

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.

02Websites
Website design for Marchetti Roofing shown on a desktop screen and a phone.
Fig. 03Built mobile first, because that is where it is read.

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
03Magazines & print

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
Capability brochure and tender documents for Renshaw M and E, fanned out.
Fig. 04Capability statement and tender kit.
Site hoarding design for Bower and Clyde main contractors.
Fig. 05Site hoarding, 6m run.
Dense metal scaffolding rising across the face of a building

Between us and the job

Everything we make gets used on a site.

WeatherVinylDirty handsBad lightA phone screen at arm’s length

04Online presence

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
Search listing, review card and social post templates for Dunlow Plumbing and Heating.
Fig. 06Listing, reviews and post templates as one system.
05How it runs

Five stages.
No mystery.

You will always know what is happening, what it costs, and what we need from you next.

  1. 01

    Site visit

    A call, or we come to you. What the business is, where it is going, what is in the way.

    45 minutes — free
  2. 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.

    Week 1
  3. 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.

    Weeks 2–3
  4. 04

    Build

    Design finished, artwork prepared, site built and tested, print specified and proofed on the actual stock.

    Weeks 4–8
  5. 05

    Handover

    Every source file, written guidelines, a session with your team, and someone on the end of a phone afterwards.

    Ongoing
06What it costs

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.

Brand identity

£3,500

from
  • Mark and identity system
  • Colour and type
  • Livery and workwear artwork
  • Written guidelines

Enquire

Website

£6,000

from
  • Design and build
  • Up to 8 pages
  • Enquiry and quote flows
  • First year hosting

Enquire

Most taken The full job

£14,500

from
  • Identity, website and presence
  • Livery, workwear, signage
  • Capability brochure
  • Photography direction

Book a call

Magazine

£9,500

per issue, from
  • Editorial planning
  • Writing and art direction
  • 32–48pp design
  • Print management

Detail

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.

07Straight answers

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.

Book a call