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Integral is now live!
Did you know that a good company culture increases revenue by 4X? Forbes found that companies with the best corporate cultures which encouraged leadership initiatives and employee recognition grew 682% in revenue.
An effective internal communications strategy and delivery is key to building a strong company culture.
Introducing ‘Integral’…a dynamic internal brand solution we developed for EG, an established provider of data, news and analytics products and services for the UK commercial real estate market.
The name ‘Integral’ encompasses a double meaning, positioning the ‘EG’ logo at the centre reflecting how employees are essential to the company’s success. The creative solution was brought to life across numerous deliverables, including a welcome pack, merchandise, and intranet banners.
If you would like help with your internal communication programme, do contact us at dh@designhouse.co.uk.
When light becomes colour: Dan Flavin at David Zwirner
Earlier this year, Matt, our Design Director, paid a visit to David Zwirner’s London gallery on Grafton Street to see the Dan Flavin exhibition, coloured fluorescent light. It was, by his own account, one of those rare experiences that stays with you long after you’ve left the room.
Flavin is an American minimalist who worked almost exclusively with commercially available fluorescent tubes from 1963 until his death in 1996. He made colour do things that paint simply cannot. Rather than applying pigment to a surface, he poured light into space, flooding walls, floors and ceilings with hues that shifted depending on where you stood. Pink bled into red. Cool white held its distance. The room itself became the canvas.
The exhibition brought together works that re-created Flavin’s 1976 shows. It presents all nine colours of his visual vocabulary, from red and green to the various whites he employed. Seeing them together made one thing abundantly clear: colour is never neutral. It carries weight, temperature, and intent.
For Matt, the visit was a useful provocation. At Designhouse, we think carefully about colour Not as decoration, but as a strategic tool. The choices we make for clients are considered against architecture, audience, and longevity. Flavin understood this instinctively. His restraint, working within a deliberately limited palette, produced work of extraordinary range and emotional depth.
It is a principle we return to often. The most enduring colour decisions are rarely the boldest, they are the most deliberate. Over fifty years of working with major brands has taught us that a well-chosen colour does far more for a brand than novelty ever could. Flavin knew it. We do too.
Hidden Pathways to Extinction Film
We are proud to share the latest video from our Science Stories film series in collaboration with Springer Nature Group.
This film explores scientist Giovanni Strona’s research into the often unseen methods that can lead to extinction. Giovanni Strona is an ecologist and a researcher at the European Commission.
His Springer book “Hidden Pathways to Extinction” shares the multitude of pathways that can lead to biodiversity loss.
According to the book, global warming’s effect on the survival of species is only one small part of the complex process. We need to move our focus away from individual species and start looking for the invisible connections linking their past, present and future existence.
Designhouse has partnered with FTSE 250 companies and global enterprises for over 50 years, delivering strategic brand consultancy that creates measurable competitive advantage. If you’d like to discuss your brand challenges, we’d be glad to talk.
The Winter Lights Festival
This week we’re excited to share the Winter Lights Festival.
This is the largest festival of its kind in London, annually transforming Canary Wharf with over 20 installations. Designed as an immersive trail, you are guided by various light art and interactive installations created by some of the most innovative artists in the world.
To brighten up your evening, head over and check it out before the 28th of January.
Happy Lunar New Year!
Yayoi Kusama x Louis Vuitton pop-up.
This iconic collaboration has taken over Harrods. Ranging all the way from a robot Kusama in the window, to an infinity mirror room, to a patisserie counter, all covered in polka-dots of course. Kusama’s art also lights up the stores entire building facade, using the iconic Harrods exterior as a canvas.
Make sure to head over to Knightsbrige to check it out!
Xceptor Campaign Creative
We’re proud to share that our Tax Campaign creative work for automated data solution provider Xceptor has gone live!
To highlight the benefits of Xceptor’s offer, the campaign uses simple illustration, engaging headlines, and human interaction, to create a unique narrative in a sector normally over-reliant on clichéd visuals.
Xceptor’s re-brand and positioning strategy helped drive 523% ROI in three years. Read the full case study
Designhouse has partnered with FTSE 250 companies and global enterprises for over 50 years, delivering strategic brand consultancy that creates measurable competitive advantage. If you’d like to discuss your brand challenges, we’d be glad to talk.
Ice skating at Somerset House
To celebrate the team being back in the office after the holidays, the Designhouse team had a fabulous time going ice skating at Somerset House.
Shortlisted in the 2023 Transform awards!
Bailey: Vision and Sound exhibition
We are delighted to share the Bailey: Vision and Sound exhibition.
This exhibition features David Bailey’s portraits of legendary musicians and explores his influential role in cultivating the image of music through his camera lens. Some of the exhibition’s highlights include a unique screenprint of John Lennon and Paul McCartney, an early portrait of young Mick Jagger before the Rolling Stones, and an unseen portrait of Dizzy Gillespie.
Head over to the Dellasposa Gallery to check it out!
Merry Christmas!
Happy Hanukkah!
Happy Hanukkah from all of us at Designhouse!
ABBA Voyage
Universal Everything- Lifeforms
We are delighted to share the ‘Universal Everything- Lifeforms’ exhibition.
This exhibition brings together 14 projects within a series of habitats designed by Ab Rogers Architects. Featuring unpredictable, generative pieces and installations that mirror and shift with both time and audience interactions. The lifeforms are made with generative software meaning that the art is always transforming.
Head over to 180 Strand to check it out!
Photo: 180 The Strand
Sportex Campaign
EY Exhibition
We are delighted to share the EY exhibition.
This exhibition features many Cezanne works displayed for the first time in the UK, showcasing the artist’s struggle between seeking official recognition and pursuing his own unique art style.
For a look into the works that paved the way for modernism and abstraction, head on over to Tate Modern this weekend.
Happy St Andrews Day!
Dream Travel Exhibition
This exhibition brings together two series of landscape paintings, both Hong Kong landscapes from Wong’s real life experiences and landscapes of British countrysides which he drew from Google Earth during the pandemic, when travel was restricted. Wong inserts his trademark toy car into each UK landscape paintings to recall the idea of a virtual road trip. The exhibition aims to meditate our innate desire to travel in not only the real world, but also the imagined.
Head over to Unit London to check it out!
Van Gogh: The Immersive Experience
Remembrance Day
Remembrance Day
International Animation day
Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirror Rooms Exhibition
This week’s exhibition features the ‘Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirror Rooms.’
The mirrored walls in combination with a shallow pool of water reflect and multiply tiny colourful lights which create the feeling of infinite space. This is one of Kusama’s largest installations to date, allowing it to fully transport you to the artist’s vision of endless reflections.
This mesmerising exhibition has been extended until June 2023 due to popular demand, so make sure to head over to Tate Modern to check it out, this is one not to miss!
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Frieze Sculpture Exhibition
We are delighted to share the ‘Frieze Sculpture’ exhibition.
Head over to Regent’s Park this weekend to visit the exhibition featuring 19 large-scale works by artists including John Giorno and Ro Robertson. This year’s display engages with a number of themes from poetry to political messaging.
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Marketing Communication News shares our Finatal rebrand
Creativepool shares our Numis rebrand
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‘Frameless’ Exhibition
We are delighted to share the Frameless exhibition.
This multi-dimensional art experience allows you to fully immerse yourself in artworks from Monet, Cezanne, Kandinsky, Klimt and so many more. This exhibition features four galleries with a different type of immersive technology in each one.
Head over to Marble Arch to lose yourself in a world of light, colour and sound.
Frieze Returns to London
We are delighted to share that Frieze has returned to London!
Frieze is one of the world’s most influential contemporary art fairs, taking place every October in London for one week only. The fair brings together six millennia of art- from rare antiques to luminaries of the 20th century. This year’s exhibition celebrates the cultural life of London and showcases its global reach.
Head over to Regent’s Park this weekend, this is one we wouldn’t want to miss.
World Brand Design Society shares our Numis Rebrand
The design of King Charles III royal cypher
A pivotal moment in this nation’s history.
The design features a Tudor crown transitioning from the St Edward crown that was used by Queen Elizabeth II and has become part of the national identity.
Read our LinkedIn post here:
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6980461059044257792
Our Nation’s Greatest Brand Asset
We have lost our nations greatest brand asset. A true style icon who lived and breathed our values and represented us so beautifully on the world stage. Thank you. Rest in peace. Long Live the King.
Read the article here:
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6975382003886002176
Design Business Association offers many courses and workshops specially created for branding and creative agencies like us
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.
National Photography Month
Lisnagar Fortune proudly sported a Donohue branded horse blanket at Punchestown yesterday
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.
BB energy
We are very proud to support Westminster City Council in their new Night Safety initiative Night Stars.
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.”
International Women’s Day
We were delighted to welcome Will Mackenzie from British Gas Business for a day in the studio!
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.
We are proud to announce our collaboration with Westminster City Council
3Sixty opens in Ontario International Airport
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.
Springer Nature Group
Merry Christmas!
No matter where or how you are spending Christmas this year, we wanted to take the opportunity to wish you a very Merry Christmas.
LMA Book
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.
Royal Academy of Arts
COP26
Remembrance Day
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.