Brand You is a small creative studio with a focus on giving you a personal service. We act as a one-stop shop for new, growing and established businesses for all things "visual". This may be logo and corporate identity work, design of print material or the design and development of a website or application.
What types of businesses do you work with?
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work with new, growing and established businesses who want to "connect" with their audiences. Often this also means working with business owners with
whom we "click". We're open to all ideas and all business sectors who want help communicating and connecting as effectively as possible with their visual material.
Find out more about who we work with.
But who are you?
Our permanent team-of-four are
passionate about demystifying the whole "branding and website" thing
that every business is encouraged to "invest in". Learn more about us here.
Creative agencies are a dime a dozen these days, so why use Brand You?
Good question. We can think of 6 good reasons off the tops of our heads...
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We've all had "real jobs". Suzanne
was a programmer, then an IT project & programme manager then a
trainer and consultant before specialising in design and development,
Nat has worked for several large not-for-profit organisations as an
application developer, Taylor was a graphic designer for a large UK-based organisation and Sally worked
in business development and sales. We are not graduates who know nothing about
how "real" businesses - big and small - work. So we can all
contribute useful information and bring insight from past experiences
to help make your project a success.
We also know what it's like to juggle a "real job" with a new business idea, so we can help you there too.
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We're mad about communication and "connecting".
It's essential in helping us understand your needs, share our ideas and
get the job done. So we try to avoid jargon and tend to stick to
"straight speaking". When we think that things are getting lost or
misunderstood, we raise this as an issue and get your project back on
track.
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We do (almost) everything ourselves.
Between us, we provide brand consulting, website design, website
development (the techie stuff), graphic design and general business
advice based on over 12 years of business experience and 5 years of
working as "creatives". We do occasionally outsource work, but this
tends to be for specialist needs - for example, if you tell us that
you must use Ruby-on-Rails as a programming language, we'd probably
have to bring in the skills or more likely, turn down the project.
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We enjoy what we do and people tell us that we're good at it. Our
designs really do act as visual identities for our customers, our
technical solutions are developed with your needs in mind (as opposed
to our preferences - we don't like blinding you with science!) and the
advice that we offer provokes interesting responses like "Ooh, I didn't
think of that. That could really make a difference to my business."
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We're all individuals who have made the leap from the corporate world to working for ourselves. Our
approach tends to be practical, professional and integrated and we love
helping other "risk-takers" launch and grow their own businesses. We also identify with growing and established businesses, as that's where we are now.
- We're careful about the projects we agree to take on.
We make a point of getting to know you and your business as thoroughly
as possible before agreeing to take on your project. If we don't feel
that we can work with you, or do a good job on your project, we won't
take it on. This means that if we do go ahead with your project, we
are already very confident of a positive outcome.
When
choosing to work with a creative team, the bottom line is that you need
to feel comfortable with the people you choose to work with.
Quick quizz
Try our quick-and-easy "Is my creative team right for me" quizz - it might help!
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