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Design Place Creative Services

We ask
better
questions.

Strategy first. Design second. Results always.

Creative that moves people.

Our Services
What we do

Our Services

Creative Direction

Graphic Design

Brand Support

Website Design and Build

Conference and Event Branding

Print Management

Direct Mail

Project Management

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Creative that moves people.

Design Place offers a range of complementary creative and project management consultancy services, delivered by experienced practitioners who ask the right questions before a single design decision is made. We work with political, commercial, and international clients across print, digital, and live environments.

What we do

Our Services

Design Place offers a range of complementary creative and project management consultancy services to help deliver the best outcome for your business or campaign.

01

Creative Direction

Every successful campaign starts with the right strategy. We work with you to establish a clear outcome, develop a creative solution that serves it, and execute across whatever media best reaches your audience.

02

Graphic Design

We match you with the right designer for your specific needs, drawing on a network of experienced graphic designers and illustrators with deep knowledge of both print and digital. Fast turnaround or detailed creative innovation, we find the right fit.

03

Brand Support

Whether you are launching a new business and need a brand built from scratch, refreshing an identity that has grown stale, or rescuing one that has lost its way, we can help. We work from the inside out, understanding your mission, your audience, and your market before a single design decision is made.

04

Website Design and Build

A website is often the first place a potential client forms an opinion of your business. We manage the whole process, helping you gather and shape your content, writing and editing copy where needed, and working with experienced developers to deliver a site that reflects who you really are and what you actually do.

05

Conference and Event Branding

We have considerable experience transforming venues into powerful statements of intent. Working closely with your venue provider, we deliver cost-effective, high-impact branding across print and digital that brings your mission or campaign themes to life.

06

Print Management

The print market is crowded and jargon-heavy. We cut through it. With access to printers across the UK and beyond, we manage everything from short runs to millions of pieces, finding the right solution at the right price.

07

Direct Mail

Social media gets the attention, but direct mail still delivers. We plan your campaign, develop the creative, and source the most cost-effective print and DSA providers in the market to get your message in front of the right people, within budget.

08

Project Management

When a campaign requires several of these services working together, we bring them under one roof. From creative brief through to final delivery, we keep everything on time and on budget.

How we work

Six Steps to Success

Design Place uses a tried and tested method to deliver the best outcome for every client.

01

Budget

We start with budget, not because it limits ambition, but because it shapes the smartest path to the best outcome.

02

Requirements

We interrogate the brief. What does the business or campaign actually need? What makes it distinctive? What is the message that must land?

03

Research

We examine all available research to make sure the campaign reaches the right people in the right way.

04

Solutions

We bring Steps Two and Three together, refining the brief and developing initial creative directions.

05

Confirmation

We present initial concepts for review and sense check everything: creative, messaging, and delivery method, before committing to production.

06

Delivery

We deliver. Final designs, confirmed costs, production completed on time and within budget.

Selected work

Case Studies

Brand

Company Rebrand

A large international organisation with a significant global footprint and over a hundred staff came to us with a brand that had served them well but was beginning to show its age.

The core challenge was their logo. Distinctive and recognisable, it had been designed for a pre-social media world and simply did not work in the square and circular formats that digital platforms demand. The brief was clear: modernise, but do not lose what made the brand recognisable in the first place.

Working with a strong-willed leadership team and a wide group of stakeholders, we redesigned the logo, refreshed the colour palette, and introduced a more contemporary typeface, all while keeping clear continuity with the existing brand. Getting diverse stakeholders to land on consensus is often the hardest part of any rebrand. In this case, careful management of the process was as important as the creative work itself.

We then built out a comprehensive suite of brand assets across every touchpoint: digital templates for PowerPoint and Word, branded clip art, a curated photo library, stationery, merchandise, and a full office rollout including signage and wall graphics that transformed the physical workspace to match the new identity.

Events

Event Venue Takeover

A client wanted to make a statement. Having hired a pub in central London for an exclusive client entertainment evening, they wanted the venue to feel entirely their own, from the outside in.

The brief was to rebrand the exterior of the pub so that the building itself became an expression of the client's identity for the duration of the event. Simple enough in concept, but the execution came with a significant constraint: as a temporary installation, nothing could cause any physical damage to the building. No vinyls, no fixings, no screws.

We developed a creative proposal that worked within those constraints, designed all the materials, sourced a specialist print supplier, and then found and supervised the installation team on the ground. The result was a striking exterior transformation that turned heads on the street and gave the client exactly the statement they were looking for.

By nine o'clock the following morning, every element had been cleanly removed, leaving no trace.

Digital

Website Design and Build

A historian, writer, and public speaker needed a website that could do several jobs at once: showcase her books, promote her speaking engagements, and give visitors a genuine sense of who she is and what she does.

Working from an initial brief, we developed and built a site that brought together the full picture of her professional life: a structured overview of her work and biography, a photo gallery, a curated collection of podcast appearances, YouTube interviews and clips, and a selection of book reviews.

At the heart of the site was a clear and simple contact mechanism, allowing event organisers and promoters to enquire about bookings directly, and visitors to ask about upcoming events.

The site was built so that ongoing maintenance and updates could be handled by the client herself, without the need for ongoing technical support or additional costs. Giving clients genuine independence after handover is something we consider from the very beginning of every project.

Political

Political Manifesto

Days before a general election was called in a Caribbean nation, a political party needed a complete manifesto. Eighty pages. Delivered in under a week.

The brief came with a clear vision: the client knew exactly how they wanted it to look and what it should convey. What they did not have was the raw material to make it happen. There were virtually no illustrations, very little local visual content, and no image library to speak of.

The real challenge was building the visual foundations from scratch under extreme time pressure. This meant sourcing imagery that was not only high quality, but genuinely representative of the country: its people, its landscapes, its character. Every image had to have real provenance and local authenticity, carefully researched and selected to ensure nothing jarred or felt generic.

Working with the authors and local stakeholders, we compiled, designed and delivered the finished manifesto on time, meeting a deadline that left no room for error.

Due to the nature of our work, we are unable to name clients or identify specific campaigns. Discretion is a cornerstone of everything we do. We are happy to discuss any of these projects, and our wider experience, in more detail on request.

Who we are

About

Design Place

Design Place Creative Services was founded by one of the UK's most experienced political campaigners and creative directors.

With more than 35 years across politics, design, and campaign organisation, he began as a political agent, running parliamentary and local election campaigns at the sharpest end of the democratic process. That background, built on voter contact, grassroots strategy, and team organisation across multiple UK General Elections, gave him an instinct for what actually moves people.

He later moved into creative direction, specialising in political design and production, contributing to high-profile campaigns at the national level. He built one of the world's leading web-to-print campaign resources and has overseen the production of more than 250 million political leaflets.

His work has taken him far beyond the UK, with campaigns delivered across the Caribbean, Africa, the Middle East, and the Mediterranean. Today he works with political, commercial, and international clients, combining the instincts of a ground-level campaigner with the technical discipline of a designer to produce communication that is clear, purposeful, and effective.

Our commitment

"Understanding the needs of the client sounds obvious, if not cliche, but it is very often not the starting point of the creative process. What is the desired outcome? Who are the key stakeholders? Who is the audience? These are the questions we ask before we design a single item."
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Our Values

Loyalty

We are in it for the long haul. When the pressure is on and the deadline is tight, we are exactly where we said we would be.

Teamwork

The best results come from working closely with our clients, not just for them. We treat every project as a genuine partnership.

Passion

We care deeply about the work we do and the clients we do it for. That enthusiasm shows in every project, however large or small.

Commitment

Every project gets our full attention and effort. There is no such thing as a small job when your name is on it.

Quality

We hold ourselves to the highest standards, every time. Good enough is never good enough.

Discretion

We will never promote ourselves at our clients' expense. What we work on, who we work for, and what we know stays with us.

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Whether you have a live project, an idea you want to explore, or simply want to find out more about how we work, we would love to hear from you.

Get in touch and we will get back to you promptly.

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Join Our Network

Design Place works with a roster of talented freelance graphic designers and illustrators throughout the year. We are not always actively recruiting, but we are always interested in hearing from the right people.

If you have strong experience in print media, a solid understanding of digital platforms, and the kind of professional attitude that puts the client first, we would love to hear from you.

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