Harrisment Design & Branding

Printed matters

If print is dead, then we didn’t get the memo. We excel in producing amazing print that works. Not just pretty but persuasive and productive. From flyers for small businesses to annual reports for multi-nationals (and everything in between) bring it on! Thankfully...

Expect the unexpected

Sometimes you need something out of the ordinary, special, surprising… This is when we come to the fore, creative thinking, imagination combined with pragmatism and a will to deliver tangible results… These are often one off pieces or part of a larger campaign, a...

Outstanding online

From personal sites to blogs to ecommerce and beyond! Using proven open source and commercial platforms, we combine our technical knowledge and creative talent to deliver both attractive aesthetics and a rewarding user experience. We know how the web must fit in with everything...

City Slick

We’re adept at creating sites and documents that work with large and small corporate organisations, including government. Dealing with stakeholers and regulators, you need to understand business, bureaucracy and bytes… We deal with a lot of different...

Social Manners

Whether you think its the second coming or a fad, one thing you can’t do is ignore social media. It’s a whole new channel of interaction where the audience control the content and the agenda. Learn how to survive and thrive and make it work for you and more...

Sense of identity

Creating and maintaining a successful brand is both an art and a science. You might want to add some intuition, passion and determination into that mix for good measure too! Understanding the soul of a business and expressing it visually is a special skill that we have developed...

Solution Focused

Our goal is to help you meet your creative and business challenges.

This means we take time to understand your enterprise, your organisation and all the demands upon it.

Good design is about solving problems and delivery, we pride ourselves in doing exactly that. We mix creative flair with real world business realities to achieve both aesthetics and value.

Creative Excellence

We design from a perspective of experience, empathy, flair, practicality and innovation.

The delight of creating something new that surprises and delivers beyond expectation is core to our philosophy and approach to any commission big or small.

Partnership

We believe in developing creative and business partnerships. Earning trust and commitment though consistent delivery and service is a constant goal.

This applies to clients, suppliers and colleagues, we want to be the consultancy of choice for all of those groups.

Multi Media Bar

Many people woke this morning and read about Steve Jobs’ untimely passing on a...

Maybe I’m preaching to the converted here but having a clear identity not only...

It’s always nice to be recommended by one client to another, we were introduced to...

It’s July so that means one thing (well and rain) and that it’s time for...

Ricky Gervais punctures the Hollywood bubble at the Golden Globes. Let's be clear about this, Gervais is a cult. A marmite. You either love him or hate him, you either get him or you don't. He either aggravates or deflates in equal measure. Those who are offended probably lack the self awareness of where the entertainment industry actually is, the sound of bubbles bursting is long overdue.

Yes you read it right, but it will only make sense if you were at the Pecha Kucha event...

This is a companion piece to an item I’ve written for the DBA on the top 10 Apps...

I don’t think this has happened to me before. You’re sitting down to watch...

An interview from October 2009 with Kevin McCloud talking to Prince Philip about his views on design and society, celebrating 50 years of the Prince Philip Designers Prize.

“Maps are works fo art that need to be visually pleasing in order to convey...

The WordCamp has been and gone. All in all pretty successful. You can read about...

During the Design Business Association (DBA)’s The Edge event in December,...

Ben & Jerry leave email at the bottom of the tub

Sparked by an article by Helen Leggatt, at BizReport The iconic ice cream brand seem to...

Harrisment designs award winning website

Now that the dust of the general election has settled I can mention that a site that we designed for Lynne Featherstone MP won the Orange Digital Election Award. "On every level, Lynne Featherstone's campaign site excelled: design, engagement, relevance, information."

It’s the eve of the conference, or rather the ‘un-conference’ so a good...

A logo is not a brand. People (especially those in business) who look at a logo and call it a brand are misinformed at best. A logo is part of a brand. A logo is a visual association, a shorthand if you like to the core of the brand. I'm going to define brand as a product or a service + experiences, promised, aspirations and emotions connected with it. A logo identifies, clarifies and defines the product or service it rests on from competitors, partners or similar entities. It creates the quick and handy connection between the viewer and the brand. A visual mnemonic if you like.

For those who can remember Neville Brody breaking onto the design scene he's always been admired and derided with equal measure, though always with grudging respect from his detractors. This Q & A seeks to determine which one the man behind the ego and the goatee is...

Earlier this week I recorded another couple of mins for Wedi 7 (see previous posts) which...

Last night I had the pleasure of presenting on the above subject to an audience of...

I hadn't worked on food brands for quite a while... then like London buses 3 come along at once. Some wordplay, some colour, some texture and hopefully the only cheese is in the recipes. Seems that people want comfort food, they want to do their traveling with their tastebuds as they're finding airfares more and more prohibitive. They want to express their wider horizons and aspirations in ways their budgets can afford. It's like Faith Popcorn's cocooning all over again.

I hesitate to say I’ve waved the wand of 2.0 over these logos but I’ve just...