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Integral is now live!

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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.

 

Vibrant new identity for Reboot

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Reboot has been formed by a group of influential senior communication and marketing professionals. Their mission is to educate and provide a platform for business leaders to create a more diverse, inclusive workplace. They aim to raise visibility of challenges faced by ethnic minority employees within the financial services sector and beyondthrough the power of storytelling. Reboot provides a platform for individual voices to tell their story in the media, with a strong ambassador bench from companies including State Street, Numis, BlueBay Asset Management, Invesco Ltd., GIC and MFS Investment Management.

In addition, Reboot leverages research such as its flagship Race to Equality report to highlight trends around discrimination in the UK workplace. Using these findings, alongside collaborating with other diversity and inclusion campaigners, Reboot pushes for progressive change on racial equality in the financial services industry.

We are delighted to support this important initiative and have created a bold and vibrant new identity. The brand mark symbolises positive change, with a punchy strapline containing a clear call to action ‘It’s time to switch the narrative’. Our aim being to motivate involvement and interest from business leaders to lend their support by getting actively involved.

If you would like to know more or lend your support do contact hello@rebootequality.org.

The Winter Lights Festival

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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.

Yayoi Kusama x Louis Vuitton pop-up.

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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!

Bailey: Vision and Sound exhibition

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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!

Universal Everything- Lifeforms

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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

EY Exhibition

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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.

Dream Travel Exhibition

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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!

Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirror Rooms Exhibition

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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!

Follow us at Designhouse for regular branding news and to keep up to date with new openings.

 

Frieze Sculpture Exhibition

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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.

Follow us at Designhouse for regular branding news and to keep up to date with new openings.

 

‘Frameless’ Exhibition

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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

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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.

Design Business Association offers many courses and workshops specially created for branding and creative agencies like us

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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.

Lisnagar Fortune proudly sported a Donohue branded horse blanket at Punchestown yesterday

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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.

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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 from British Gas Business for a day in the studio!

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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 opens in Ontario International Airport

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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.

LMA Book

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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.

Remembrance Day

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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.