Branding
The thoughtfully designed articulation of an intelligently conceived strategy that reflects your purpose, values and audience. Brand drives sales, loyalty and sustained growth. Brand is power.
04/12/2019
Guest blog: How to plan and track project impact
Adam Fennelow, Head of Services at the Design Business Association, shares a super-simple way for projects to be analysed for effectiveness right from the off, demonstrating Return on Investment and helping to ensure strong relationships between agency and client delivery teams. The right steps at the start of every new project will inject effectiveness and...
Rea Clarke
Account Manager
Rea has supported the delivery of high-profile projects for British Racing School, Paradigm Trust, and, pre-Spring, the English National Ballet and Tiger Aspect.
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03/10/2019
A plea for personality
We’ve all got very good at the process of branding, but there’s rumblings of a backlash. It seems that well conceived and rigorously applied brand strategy might, just possibly, be squashing the personality out of things. The word ‘authenticity’ has been bandied about to such a degree that it’s become meaningless. Authenticity, if unearthed without...
31/07/2019
Freelancers: tell us about you!
It’s shaping up to be a busy Autumn, and we’re keen to hear from creative freelancers. We’re building up a roster of talented freelancers who can support our studio with niche and extra skills. They include illustration, photography, film, editing, animation, development, design, writing. Maybe you have a folio full of something we didn’t know...
05/07/2019
This is what we do.
Ever wondered what Spring does? Here’s your answer. We have so many stories to tell, people to introduce you to, and ambitions for ourselves and our clients. Sometimes it’s hard to get it all into a small space. So here is a very brief overview of what we do, for whom.
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24/05/2019
How the lacklustre Game of Thrones finale can improve your brand
After eight years the HBO epic Game of Thrones aired its last episode this week and it’s safe to say most fans were less than pleased with the result. Cards on the table before we begin, I haven’t seen a single episode. I read the first book a few years before the TV series began,...
12/03/2019
In Design Week, on brands that improve people’s lives
This week, Design Week asked Erika to share her thoughts on how brands might improve our lives. This comes in response to a report published by Havas, about Meaningful brands. The truth of the matter is that the Havas research is designed to emphasise the value of their content offering. Good content is a great...
CLIENT The Hog Hotel
PROJECT Brand: Dave the Hedgehog becomes hotel icon
We knew that we would need to include a hedgehog as part of the typeface – it could not be a type and supporting icon identity. So to create something truly unique we put pen to paper to develop the illustration style. Taking the ‘O’ of a bold sans serif font enabled us to illustrate...
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CLIENT Jordon Freight
PROJECT Brand: through it all for a freight business
Letting nothing stand in our way to produce a quality new brand
CLIENT Cromwell Museum
PROJECT Brand: “pimples, warts and everything”
Spring was asked to help The Cromwell Museum to examine and express its brand, as the museum moved away from its previous management by Cambridgeshire County Council.
CLIENT East Suffolk Council
PROJECT Brand: an iconic logo for Britain’s first super district council
The Council wanted their stakeholders to have the opportunity to be involved in the design decisions, so we created a range of options for sharing with the community.
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CLIENT Greenhouses Direct
PROJECT Brand: bringing growth to greenhouses
An identity which truly represents the high-quality offering from Greenhouses Direct
CLIENT West Suffolk College
PROJECT Brand: forging business connections for students
Spring's bold design style uses shapes, colours and overlaps to create the connection
08/02/2019
Spring brings brand specialist Simon Middleton onto team
Spring has added Simon Middleton’s talents to enhance the agency’s branding offer for new and existing clients. As author of three books on branding and marketing* and with a fourth in the pipeline, Simon’s specialist focus on brand complements the agency’s existing work. Formerly Creative and Brand Director of Fox Murphy, Simon travels extensively to...
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CLIENT Moroccan National Tourist Office
PROJECT Brand: Much, MuchMorocco!
Spring’s MNTO brand structure draws together three key attributes: welcoming, unspoiled and mystical...
CLIENT Look Sideways-East
PROJECT Brand: Look Sideways-East
This brand identity allows partner organisations to be associated with the region’s arts offerings.
CLIENT Wolff-Evans
PROJECT Brand: Wolff Wolf
Spring’s hand crafted branding reflects the product’s handmade-in-Suffolk USP
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CLIENT Visit Norwich
PROJECT Brand: City of Stories
Encouraging travellers to make Norwich part of their story
CLIENT Vertas
PROJECT Brand: driving engagement
Working together to define the brand positioning
CLIENT Two Magpies Bakery Southwold
PROJECT Brand: An eye for detail
No sorrow, just joy with this iconic brand for an award-winning High Street bakery and patisserie
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CLIENT Sail Loft
PROJECT Brand: Setting sail
Creating a brand identity for Southwold’s beachside hideaway
CLIENT Suffolk County Council
PROJECT Engagement: STEM blows your mind!
Showing young people the endless possibilities of a career in STEM
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CLIENT Marriage's the Master Millers
PROJECT Launch: throwing bakers out of planes
Saying it with flour for artisan bakers everywhere
CLIENT Debach
PROJECT Brand: Illustrating Capacity
Delivering a new brand for the 40th anniversary
CLIENT Hollow Trees Farm
PROJECT Brand: a growing theme
A fitting brand for the complete day out experience
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CLIENT Havensfield Happy Hens
PROJECT Brand: Happy Hens
Hatching a new brand for this fantastic egg company
CLIENT eats
PROJECT Brand: Focus and Grow
Serving up a fantastic new identity for this school catering company
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CLIENT The Unruly Pig
PROJECT Brand: Punk Pig
Getting unruly with one of Suffolk's top gastropubs
CLIENT DanceEast
PROJECT Brand: Move | Be Moved
Capturing the spirit of dance for one of the UK's most exciting dance companies
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Spring is passionate about DanceEast and its vision, and they are full of creative ideas for each new challenge. We love working with Spring and our audiences are loving our work = a happy partnership!
CLIENT Moroccan National Tourist Office
PROJECT Destination Marketing: MuchMorocco
Bringing Morocco to the English-speaking world ... and vice versa
CLIENT MH Goals
PROJECT Brand: designers for goalposts
A game-winning brand for this leading sports equipment manufacturer
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Spring’s creative achieves exactly what we hoped for. Our aim with the MuchMorocco campaign is to bring the essence of Morocco to holidaymakers. It is warm, vibrant, friendly, accessible, stylish … all qualities shared by Morocco as a country.
23/03/2016
Six awards in the bag for Spring
A posse of happy, rather weary Springers headed back to the Suffolk Coast this morning, following a night of success and celebration at the branding awards, Transform Europe. We are delighted and proud to share the news of a Gold, two Silvers, two Bronzes and a Highly Commended for work Spring has undertaken with Moroccan...
18/02/2016
DanceEast brand springs to life
Spring’s brand for DanceEast has developed over the course of years, and has allowed us to gain a deep knowledge of DanceEast’s purpose, aims and ambitions as we manage the deployment of its identity. The result of this long relationship is a brand identity which gets to the very heart of the organisation and allows...