Creative Direction2024

Built for teams who need the whole idea, not just the deck that describes it.

Overview

The agency practice carries a thought from first sketch through to the thing that actually ships. Strategy, direction, and production sit in one room rather than three, which is what keeps the intent intact on the way out.

Challenge

Most briefs arrive carrying three arguments at once, each defensible, none dominant. The work that followed tended to be competent and forgettable, because nobody had decided what it was for before the design started.

Our Approach

We settle the argument first and write it down in a sentence. Everything after that — type, motion, casting, media — either serves the sentence or gets cut. Strategy and production run on one track, so there is no handoff for the intent to leak through.

Outcome

A positioning, an identity system, and a launch campaign delivered as one piece of thinking rather than three engagements. The system left with its reasoning attached, so the next team to touch it could extend it instead of guessing.

Iris Coleman
(Creative Direction)
Felix Hart
(Strategy)
Naomi Blake
(Production)
Live project
“We came in with a folder of half-decisions. We left with one argument and everything pointed at it.”
Jules Mercer,
Brand Lead

What we do04

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Positioning

Strategy

The argument the work is making, written down in one sentence before anything is designed.

02

Identity

Design

Type, colour and mark, built as a system with its reasoning still attached.

03

Campaign

Production

Film, stills and copy made together, so the launch reads as one idea rather than three.

04

Handover

Systems

Files, rules and the thinking behind them, handed over so the next team can extend it.

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