Author: Matthew Gillman

We’re always on the lookout for training and development opportunities for our team. Design Business Association offers many courses and workshops specially created for branding and creative agencies like us.

Last month, our Senior Account Manager, Lucy Whyte attended a course about Resilience and how to improve and build your resilience in the workplace. She has described her experience, and how the course will help her as she progresses in her career.

“The DBA resilience course struck a great balance between offering insights into the resilience landscape and providing practical preparation techniques to manage resilience in both your professional and personal life. I look forward to acting on the advice and sharing the insights with my colleagues.”

As a founding member and winner of nine DBA effectiveness awards, we would highly recommend any branding and design agencies to take a look at joining the association here.

We were so pleased to see winning horse, Lisnagar Fortune sporting a Donohue branded horse blanket at Punchestown racecourse.

In 2020, Designhouse were commissioned by Donohue Marquees to reimagine the business’ name and brand identity, to be used across a range of different mediums including their new website, merchandise and now horse blankets!

Take a look at the full case study here.

We are very proud to support Westminster City Council in their new Night Safety initiative Night Stars.

Night Stars are a network of volunteers who provide a wide range of practical and emotional support to people out in Westminster at night. From helping people find a safe way home to a cup of coffee to assisting people in reporting crime. It’s been incredibly rewarding to work with them on bringing this brand to life, from name through to helping get volunteers on board.

But don’t take our word for it! Desirée Weston, Strategic Communications Manager at Westminster City Council has shared her experience of working together, “We are proud and excited to launch the Night Stars initiative to bring extra safety and support to the streets of Westminster at night-time.  Designhouse have done a wonderful job of bringing the purpose and intention of the initiative to life through the brand design, while making it memorable and distinctive.”

We were delighted to welcome Will Mackenzie for a day in the studio last week.

Will is spending his year in industry as a Marketing Campaign Executive at our client, British Gas Business.

He spent the day shadowing Sam Hancock who shared some insights into the world of design.

“It was great coming to see the whole team at Designhouse.

As someone at the start of their career, getting an overview of the creative processes and design workflow they employ has been really insightful and inspiring for my future.”

Thank you for paying us a visit Will.

3Sixty Duty Free have recently won a 10-year contract at Ontario International Airport in Southern California, marking its first duty free concession on the US West Coast.

Their dynamic brand and clever name, created by Designhouse ensures stand out in the busy airport environment and reinforces their mission to be recognised as a disruptor and innovator across the Travel Retail sector. Indeed, just 12 months after Dh completed the re-branding programme, Korean Duty Free retail giant, Hotel Shilla announced it was to acquire a 44% stake in 3Sixty, reported to be worth $121m (source DFNI).

Have a look at the full case study here.

To celebrate the month of Veganuary, some of our team headed out to our local Vegan cafe, Shaw Cafe, to pick up some hearty plant-based dishes.

No matter where or how you are spending Christmas this year, we wanted to take the opportunity to wish you a very Merry Christmas.

We are looking for an Account Manager to join our busy studio. Your role is an integral part of the client team, and you will support the team on all account management tasks on a mix of exciting client projects.

We are a fun, close-knit team based in Aldwych, Central London, with great clients ranging from multinationals to smaller, family-owned businesses.

The ideal candidate must have at least 2 years experience in a similar role.

We’re looking for a good team player, with a proven ability to prioritise and excellent attention to detail.

To apply for the position, please send a full CV and a covering letter of no more than one page to lucy.whyte@designhouse.co.uk.

Congratulations to the Loan Market Association on their 25th Anniversary Book Launch.

We are delighted to have a long-standing collaboration with the Loan Market Association, recently collaborating on their 25th Anniversary Book. The book features chapters from experts in the loan market, from legal and regulatory analysis to Fintech and ESG.

Download the full book here.

Happy Hanukkah to all those who are celebrating!

From our team at Designhouse, we warmly wish you a joyful Festival of Lights.

Some of our team have been busy growing their Movember moustaches! Who do you think should be given the ultimate prize: being allowed to keep their moustache?

Movember are a men’s charity changing the face of men’s health by encouraging people to grow a moustache for the month of November. The money raised each year funds ground-breaking projects and raises awareness for the men’s health crisis.

Today is Remembrance Day, which marks the end of the First World War when the Armistice was signed on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month in 1918.

When hundreds of bright red poppies emerged from the battlefields in the wake of the war, they appeared to symbolise the arrival of peace and freedom. For the whole country, the iconic red poppy has become a poignant reminder of the enormous sacrifices made by so many.

The power of the poppy was first recognised by Canadian World War One soldier, John McCrae, who was stunned by the red-cast landscape and went on to describe the salience of the poppies in his poem, In Flanders Fields.

“In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.”

Whether pinned to our chests or adorning a memorial, the symbolic poppy is now unmissable throughout our streets every November.