Are you launching an exciting new product or want to take your brand to the next level? Then read on…
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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09.02.2021
Branding & Packaging
Just launched, the new look Conde Noble wine
A dramatic re-design for this Lidl GB range
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26.01.2021
Packaging Design
Doidy Cup: Packaging Refresh
We’ve loved bringing a bit of fun to this tried and trusted baby weaning product
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12.01.2021
Insights
HERE IT IS…
9 insights for Sports & Nutrition brands
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17.12.2020
Inspiration
Farewell 2020!
Phew! 2020 is almost over. Here’s to a better 2021…
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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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16.11.2020
Insights
DOWNLOAD NOW… brand insights for the Sports and Nutrition categories
9 brand insights to help you successfully connect with the active lifestyle and fitness audience
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09.11.2020
Insights
COMING SOON…for Sports and Nutrition brands
Enhance your ability to connect with your consumer and reach new audiences
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05.11.2020
Insights
Design Studio Life: Shaping Superpowers
We’re talking to Design Director Rikki about problem solving through design and his love of movies.
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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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20.10.2020
Inspiration
Uniting Bristol’s Creatives
We’re proud to be members of ‘Bristol Creative Industries’ – bringing the Bristol creative community together.
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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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24.09.2020
Insights
Design Agency Life: Shaping Superpowers
Welcome to Penny, the newest member of our team
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07.07.2020
Packaging Design
The perfect serve? The Pentawards think so!
We’re thrilled to announce that our packaging design for Hortus gin slimline cans has made the shortlist for the 2020 Pentawards!
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15.06.2020
Insights
Design Agency Life: Celebrating Superpowers
We chat with our Office Manager Liz about a love of all things creative, ‘drawing with light’ and an encounter with Banksy!
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01.06.2020
Shopper Marketing
Digital Image Optimisation
Turn your online pack images into a powerful marketing tool!
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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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12.05.2020
Inspiration
Thank you!
A little bit of positivity…
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06.05.2020
Insights
Proactive Collaboration
Within the design industry the term Collaboration is losing its value from being overused and underdelivered, but we believe it’s still a crucial part of the design process…
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23.04.2020
Inspiration
Together we will get through this…
It’s business as usual for our studio, thanks to our amazing team!
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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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06.02.2020
Insights
Insight-Led Design
Design is no longer simply about just creating beautiful things. There is a journey to get there, starting with the consumer.
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23.01.2020
Branding and Packaging
5 Reasons…
Our clients believe in us, and here’s why you should too!
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15.01.2020
Inspiration
2020 Trends from Fjord
It’s the end of this world as we know it… the human experience is growing increasingly complex and our changing priorities are filtering through to all areas of design and creativity.
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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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26.11.2019
Box Packaging Solutions
Box packaging – the new real-life experience
By Mark Stubbington
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09.10.2019
Insights
Top tips for graphic design graduates
By Mark Stubbington
Guaranteed to help you land a placement or that all important first job!
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05.09.2019
Insights
Two Blokes Talk…Design
Two designers. Two agency owners. Two opposing opinions…
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27.08.2019
Insights
Blood, Sweat and Cheers!
25yrs as an independent Design Agency, must mean time to celebrate…
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15.08.2019
Insights
Design Agency Life: Celebrating Superpowers
By Kate Clayton
We talk early starts, cute baby hyenas and a love of sleep with Senior Account Manager Kate
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25.07.2019
Promotional Packaging
Limited edition packaging gone wrong?
By Mark Stubbington
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18.06.2019
Insights
Design Agency Life: Celebrating Superpowers
We talk extreme cleaning and having your head jumped on with Design Director and Business Owner, Mark
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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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20.05.2019
Packaging Design
Make your packaging design Instagrammable!
By Kate Clayton
As a packaging design agency we help inspire consumers to pick and click products with bold, striking and well-crafted packaging design…
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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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30.04.2019
Insights
How consistent is your brand imagery?
You’ve dedicated significant time, energy and budget to perfecting your brand and packaging design, and now achieving visual continuity across multiple platforms is key to increasing the chances of your brands/products resonating with the consumer…
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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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02.04.2019
Branding & Packaging
Brand & Packaging: Shaking up the Nigerian snack market
We recently created the brand identity and packaging design for this dynamic, vibrant and colourful range of international snacks…
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26.03.2019
Insights
Brand Naming: Our top 5 tips
By Mark Stubbington
Deciding on a brand name is one of the most important parts of the creative process, which makes it both exciting and daunting. Here we share our top 5 tips for coming up with those all-important brand names…
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20.03.2019
Insights
Creative Pitches – how to get the most out of design agencies
By Kate Clayton
Choosing the right design agency is a crucial part of the creative process and so here we share 3 key points that we’ve found can make a real difference in getting the most out of pitching agencies…
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13.03.2019
Trade Comms
‘Blüming’ Beautiful Trade Materials
By Kate Clayton
Creating intrigue and excitement for the launch of Danone’s new BLÜM water
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05.03.2019
Insights
Visual Theatre: Elevate your packaging in-store and online
Leave a lasting impression with consumers by thinking beyond the packaging to bring your products and campaigns to life…
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03.03.2019
Insights
Design Agency Life: Celebrating Superpowers
By Kate Clayton
Talking elevators, acoustic guitar and getting covered in paint with Designer, Hannah
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25.02.2019
Trade Comms
Bringing ‘the next generation of water’ to life
Creating an intriguing Trade Kit for Danone’s new INFINITY WATER
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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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23.01.2019
Packaging Design
Packaging Design: At One with Nature
By Kate Clayton
New packaging design for Vogels, bringing the countryside onto the pack
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22.01.2019
Inspiration
Design Agency Life: Celebrating Superpowers
By Kate Clayton
Talking bananas, golf and Butlins with our Artwork Manager, Matt
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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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08.01.2019
Packaging Design
Packaging Design: Pretty in Pink!
By Kate Clayton
Changing the pace for a new special release Hortus Premium Pink Gin.
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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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14.11.2018
Inspiration
New Buying Experiences Book: Through Their Eyes
We’ve created a book about sensory buying experiences. Get your copy and journey with Beth to experience her purchasing decisions in the aisle, outdoors and online to discover what inspires her before she clicks and picks out products…
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07.11.2018
Insights
Colour in Packaging: Pretty in Pink?
The problems brands face when using the colour pink to target products to women…
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27.09.2018
Insights
Build transparency using your ‘Digital Pack Imagery’
With 78% of consumers placing brand transparency at the top of the list when it comes to choosing which brand to shop with, this could be the best time to use the ‘digital pack’ to amplify your brand’s superpowers…
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09.08.2018
Insights
Sustainable Packaging Design: How we’re adapting…
By Kate Clayton
Since attending a Design Business Association (DBA) discussion on ‘How can design affect the sustainability agenda’ back in the Spring, we’ve been exploring what impact we can have when it comes to influencing packaging design briefs. Find out what we’re up to…
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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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04.07.2018
Insights
Transit Packaging: Engaging consumers at home
How to make the most of the space between a customer committing to a product online to the moment it lands in their hands at home.
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18.06.2018
Branding & Packaging
Reusable bamboo beer bottle anyone?
By Mark Stubbington
The challenge of trendsetting for FMCG companies…
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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…
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09.05.2018
Insights
Male Packaging Design: Creating ‘Man’ Appeal
The insights we use to develop branded packaging design for today’s male market…
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18.05.2018
Inspiration
Creative Packaging: the design lifecyle
By Kate Clayton
With more informed shoppers dissecting labels with a forensic eco-lens, spending a bit more on environmentally bespoke solutions could result in bigger returns in the long-term…
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01.05.2018
Insights
Project Management: why is it worth paying for?
By Kate Clayton
Project Management is an area that’s often undervalued in terms of time, so we’d like to expand on what goes on behind the scenes to explain why it’s worth the investment.
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09.05.2018
Inspiration
Award Winning Design
We’re excited to receive two nominations and two awards this month…
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15.03.2018
Packaging Design
Beautiful Packaging achieves sell-out for Lidl UK
The number of Hortus Gin liqueur bottles sold per hour in November was 400. That’s 7 bottles sold per minute! This was our approach…
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01.03.2018
Promotional Packaging
Limited Edition Packaging: Breaking the Mould
Working with challengers and market leaders to take existing products beyond their core packaging. Four ways to get noticed…