Branding Manchester
Your creative brand agency to build your brand
Buried in your everyday activities, it’s time to reveal your brand’s brilliance.
Your brand deserves our attention
We work with fast-growing startups and heritage brands across Manchester to redefine your brand capabilities.
Your look and style are so much more than a logo or a colour palette. Your brand encapsulates who you are and what you stand for.
Are you playful, fun and mischievous?
Or are you disruptive, rebellious and daring?
Whoever you are, we will redefine where you stand in your sector.
Our brand experts will tell your story, create new levels of trust and trigger new connections with potential customers. Through a consistent design experience, your brand will be monitored across each touchpoint, from website to letterheads, social platforms to packaging.
Allow us to move you away from templated, generic logos and AI-generated imagery.
We want to challenge assumptions.
We’ll push boundaries and ask difficult questions.
Let us celebrate the unique quirks that make you special.
Never underestimate how your brand can come to life
Manchester is a busy city. The region is packed full of businesses like yours, which all want to capture the attention of the same people.
That’s why your brand is vital to help you stand out from the crowd.
As your brand agency, we won’t leave anything to chance. We’ll undertake extensive market research to establish what your customers care about, how they see you today and what might win them over tomorrow. From there, we can use our creative credentials to develop an authentic brand proposition which reimagines who you are now and reveals who you are meant to be.
Why we’re the right brand agency for your business
Our approach to building your brand is to engage in a collaborative process, where there are no bad ideas – just untapped potential.
A brand agency for startups and SMEs
If you’re starting a new business, it might feel overwhelming. Our branding team are here to guide you every step of the way. We promise to find the right words to position your business exactly as you envision. Your ambition is what drives us. Together, we’ll forge a powerful, enduring impact that becomes the very heart of your brand.
Creative brand agency for established businesses
If you’ve already built a strong brand, but you’re ready to evolve and push forward, we’re here for you. We have regularly worked with heritage and legacy businesses across Greater Manchester, helping businesses like you to revisit your story, sharpen your positioning and breathe new life into everything you stand for. Your company history fuels our creativity. Allow us to craft a refreshed identity that captivates your audience, honours your legacy and prepares you for your next chapter.
Our distinct approach to
Manchester branding services
We never jump straight into branding projects. As much as it tempts us to head straight to the fun part, your business deserves more than that. Whether you’re a small business or a legacy brand, our creative branding experts will always revert to the very beginning. Checking that the right foundations have been laid is essential to ensure that no cracks appear within your brand vision.
Step 1: The discovery workshop
This is the critical first step, which ensures that we align on your vision, your values and your expectations.
From the outset, we’ll clarify any questions and processes with your senior leadership team and key stakeholders.
Through brand proposition exercises, we’ll identify clear KPIs and success metrics which will refine the overall project brief and implementation roadmap.
Step 2: Market and audience research
Nothing is left to chance, and we never assume anything.
Your brand strategy will be data-driven and customer-centric. We want to have a 360° understanding of what drives purchasing decisions and where your brand can stand out in the crowded marketplace.
With detailed audience mapping and customer personas, your brand will be able to tap into those emotional connections.
Step 3: Creative concept development
This is where our creative juices start to flow. Our understanding of who you are and what your customers want will seamlessly allow us to create brand identities that engage and resonate.
You’ll review multiple design routes—sketches, mock-ups, and mood boards—that explore different narrative angles, colour palettes, typography treatments, and messaging frameworks. With visual style guides for each direction, you’ll enjoy seeing your brand come to life.
Step 4: Testing and refinement
Continuous feedback loops will allow us to test and refine your ultimate look and style.
Using interactive prototypes and stakeholder workshops, we ensure every element—from logo lockups to tone of voice—resonates with your audience and performs to your business goals.
You’ll walk away with finalised design assets and a clear understanding of how and why those design choices are working.
Step 5: Launch and ongoing support
You will receive comprehensive brand guidelines and toolkits along with template files for digital and print collateral.
Our post-launch support includes training, documentation, and ongoing advice to protect your brand-new refreshed identity.
We can help you with a range of creative brand services
Every Manchester business is different. What you need now may differ from what you need in the future.
Our branding services provide flexible, ongoing support—we recommend starting with the essentials and seamlessly adding new layers as your business grows. As brand creatives, we obsess over consistency and detail, ensuring your brand’s look and feel stay cohesive and memorable wherever your customers might find you.
✔ Brand Strategy
This is where we will partner with you to define your brand’s purpose, values, and market position. Through stakeholder workshops and competitive audits, we map out a clear roadmap that aligns your vision with measurable business goals. Your brand strategy will act as your blueprint to remind you that every creative decision should drive growth and build long-term equity.
✔ Brand Audit
Your brand audit is your opportunity to benchmark perception and performance. We analyse your brand vision and visual assets, check for message consistency and customer sentiment. This brand audit allows you to understand where you sit in the marketplace and what you can do to strengthen your position.
✔ Visual Identity & Logo Design
Your visual identity is the first thing you think of when it comes to branding. From conception to delivery, our graphic design and brand experts will surprise you with what we can create. Your visual identity will incorporate colour palette development, typography selection, and iconography. All will be delivered in scalable formats for digital and print use.
✔ Brand Guidelines & Toolkits
For your brand vision to work, it needs to be consistent. Along with our brand audits, we offer detailed brand guidelines and toolkits to ensure that your brand looks as it should. Your brand guidelines will detail logo usage, colour specifications, typography rules, imagery style, and tone of voice. To keep you on track, you will receive editable templates for presentations, social graphics, email signatures, and more.
Digital Branding Assets
We specialise in translating your brand into engaging digital experiences. From social media assets and email templates to web design and paid-ad creatives, we know how to optimise campaigns for platform best practices. With our help and support, all assets and campaigns will be aligned with your strategic objectives.
✔ Packaging & Collateral Design
You want your products to stand out on the shelf. Our graphic design services mean that we can ensure a consistent brand look and style across all product packaging, brochures, flyers, and stationery. We balance visual aesthetics with production considerations to ensure that your collateral is strong, appealing and memorable for all the right reasons.
✔ Environmental Branding & Signage
Bring your brand to life in physical spaces. We see empty walls as blank canvases that can be brought to life, whether you work in a retail outlet or an office, or you are preparing for an event or exhibition. From large wall graphics and window decals to wall installations and wayfinding signage, shopfronts, building wraps and vehicle wraps, nothing is too much trouble for our branding team.
Motion Graphics & Video Branding
From animated logos and explainer videos to branded social reels, our video production team know how to maximise the use of video storytelling. Our in-house production ensures seamless integration of visuals, voiceover, and music to maximise impact and maintain consistency with your brand guidelines and customer touchpoints.
Experiential Marketing & Brand Activations
We love nothing more than creating memorable moments that turn potential audiences into brand advocates. We design pop-up events, product launches, workshops, and stunts that generate buzz, drive engagement, and shout your brand’s message.
