Change starts here…1st April 2022
15.03.2022
Studio Life
It’s time to start looking at things differently…
Change starts here…April 2022
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08.03.2022
Studio Life
Who was it said that CHANGE was scary? Don’t listen to them!
In a world that moves faster every day, embracing CHANGE is the only way to thrive.
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22.02.2022
Studio Life
Change Starts Here
Every brand is on a journey that evolves over time and ours is no different…
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09.02.2022
Studio Life
A new chapter begins…
Once upon a time, nestled deep within the rolling hills of the West Country, was a small design agency with a great big creative heart…
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13.01.2022
Brand Positioning
Brand Positioning
Narrowing your audience is the first step to increasing your brand appeal
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16.11.2021
Packaging Design
Still Wild: Coastal Gin
A delicious new Gin inspired by the rugged coast of Pembrokeshire
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14.09.2021
Promotional Packaging
Understanding the mindset of a Gift Purchaser
How to attract a Gift Purchaser to your Sports Nutrition brand – even if they haven’t ever heard of you…
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19.07.2021
Packaging Design
2021 Pentawards Shortlist
We’re very excited to announce that our Bickiepegs redesign is on the 2021 Pentawards shortlist!
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01.07.2021
Packaging Design
Have real babies had their day?
Why parents are finding real baby images on packaging a turn-off…
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16.06.2021
Insights
Make those First Impressions Count
Brands often only have one opportunity to make a great first impression – whether with consumers, or those elusive trade buyers – and so you need to make it count.
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08.06.2021
Packaging Design
Design Award Shortlist
We’re thrilled to have one of our designs shortlisted in the Home, Leisure and Other Markets category for the 2021 Pentawards!
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08.06.2021
Insights
Changing our own Consumer Mindsets
In adapting to the ‘new normal’, our Design Director Rikki has discovered something better than before…
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13.05.2021
Inspiration
World Drinks Awards 2021
Our Design Director Mark will be joining the panel of judges
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11.05.2021
Packaging Design
Gift Packaging for Active Lifestyle brands
Increase engagement with your consumers and reach new audiences
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04.05.2021
Branding & Packaging
Awards Finalist
We’re so excited that our redesign of Bickiepegs has been shortlisted for The Drum Roses 2021!
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16.02.2021
Insights
Engaging Storytelling through Packaging Design
As the physical, tangible version of your brand story, is your packaging design telling the same tale?
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07.12.2020
Branding & Packaging
Still Wild – Exquisite Hand-Foraged Spirits
Unleashing the ‘Wild Side’ for this truly unique product
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27.10.2020
Branding & Packaging
Welcome to the Wonderful World of Bickiepegs!
A radical re-design for this traditional brand, to help future-proof them for many more generations to come!
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08.10.2020
Branding and Packaging
Better for you bread, bursting with vitality!
Delicious bread, with half the carbs – to help you feel great from the inside out, bursting with vitality to take life head-on!
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01.10.2020
Packaging Design
It’s all Hunky Dory for this Limited Edition beer
We loved breaking free of brand guidelines to create this funky limited edition packaging!
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27.05.2020
Insights
Stunning Photography: Bringing Packaging Design to Life
You might be surprised at how many different types of shots are required for one piece of packaging!
We asked Stef from SCG Photography to give us some insights into how she helps bring packaging design to life, for use across multiple platforms.
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20.04.2020
Insights
Who doesn’t love an award winning Gin!
We’re proud to be working with Lidl on their award-winning range of Own Label Gins and Gin Liqueurs
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25.02.2020
Insights
Delivering commercially-effective design
Creating magnificent design solutions for some of the UK’s biggest brands and innovative start-ups
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02.12.2019
Packaging Design
Hortus – Special Release Gin
We’re proud to have created the latest packaging design for Lidl’s new Hortus Special Release range of delicately infused uniquely flavoured gins…
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25.07.2019
Promotional Packaging
Limited edition packaging gone wrong?
By Mark Stubbington
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03.06.2019
Shopper Marketing: Inspiring the consumer journey
Before a customer even holds a product in their hand for the first time, we use design to educate, persuade and inspire them to choose your brand…
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07.05.2019
Branding & Packaging
Gift Packaging: increase sales and drive incremental growth
By Rikki Payne
We discuss how gift packaging offers a great opportunity for brands to explore brave and differentiated packaging design, and develop new connections with consumers…
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15.04.2019
Branding and Packaging
Daily Cultures: a brand on a mission to pioneer plant-based gut health
Creating a vibrant and distinctive new brand identity for gut health brand Daily Cultures…
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11.02.2019
Insights
Inspiring the Trade: Get your Products Listed
Do you bring excitement and intrigue to trade buying meetings? Do your sell-in presentations do justice to the time and effort you have spent perfecting your brand and products?
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06.02.2019
Insights
Sustainable Design: Inspiring truthful and realistic strategies
Download our thought provoking questions which we hope will inspire your sustainable packaging strategies…
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05.02.2019
Branding and Packaging
Gin Packaging: Exquisite Hand-Made Gin
By Kate Clayton
Creating a modern twist on a classic style for this small batch Gin packaging
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31.01.2019
Insights
Packaging Design: Create Intrigue through Storytelling
By Mark Stubbington
How can a relatively small piece of packaging design really help brands deliver an intriguing, consistent brand story?
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16.01.2019
Insights
Sustainable Packaging: is your brand doing ‘the right’ thing?
By Kate Clayton
Empowering brands to be honest and realistic about sustainability before design work starts
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21.11.2018
Insights
Gift Packaging: Luxury & Sustainability living in harmony
By Kate Clayton
We believe brands can achieve a balance between the indulgence and luxury expected of gift packaging with an environmentally sound and sustainable proposition. Find out how…
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10.07.2018
Branding & Packaging
Packaging Design: Craft Beer gets deep
We recently teamed up with Lidl UK to create a brand identity and packaging design for their latest craft beer offering…
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14.05.2018
Insights
Gold Award for Special Edition Bread Packaging
DA’s Design Director’s Rikki Payne and Mark Stubbington travelled up to Manchester to attend The Drum Roses Creative Awards 2018, and they didn’t come away disappointed…