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Branding, graphic design and video editing

People judge the work
by the look of it
before they read a word.

Branding, graphic design and video editing built as one system, so everything you put in front of a buyer looks like it came from the same business.

CRE-01 Three layers

Creative work sits in three layers, and each one holds up the next.

A logo with no system around it gets applied differently by everyone who touches it. A system with no output is a document nobody opens. Video without either is expensive content that does not look like you.

IDN / 04Layer 01

Identity

The decisions everything else inherits. Mark, colour, type, and the rules that keep them from drifting the moment someone else opens a file.

OutputA system
APP / 04Layer 02

Applied graphic design

The identity turned into the things you actually hand people: social assets, ad creative, documents, print. Where consistency is either kept or lost.

OutputConsistency
VID / 04Layer 03

Video editing

The highest-reach format on every major platform, and the one most businesses have sitting unused on a phone because editing it is a real job.

OutputAttention
CRE-02 Fault analysis

Inconsistency reads as a business nobody is running.

Buyers do not consciously notice good design. They notice the absence of it, and they read that absence as a signal about how you do everything else. Below is what usually brings a business to this page.

  • FLT-01Your site, your social and your documents look like three different companies.
  • FLT-02The logo was made when you were a different, smaller business, and it still reads that way.
  • FLT-03There is no identity at all, just a pile of files that accumulated over the years.
  • FLT-04Nobody can find the original logo artwork, so a screenshot keeps getting reused.
  • FLT-05Every new piece of design is a fresh argument about colours and fonts.
  • FLT-06You have hours of usable footage and no time or software to turn it into anything.
  • FLT-07Your video looks unfinished next to the competitor who is spending less than you.

The cause is nearly always the same. A logo was bought, and no system was built around it. Without stated rules for colour, type, spacing and application, every person who touches the brand invents their own version in good faith. Six months later the drift is visible from across the room. We build the rules with the mark, then apply them, which is the only way consistency survives contact with a busy team.

CRE-03 Branding

Branding and graphic design that hold up in use.

The test of an identity is not the presentation. It is what it looks like eight months later, on an ad, on a van, on a proposal built by someone who was not in the original meeting.

  • BRD-01

    Logo and marks

    Distinct initial directions, then refinement on the one you choose. Primary lockup, stacked and horizontal variants, a single-colour version and a small-size mark that still reads at favicon scale.

  • BRD-02

    Colour and typography

    A palette that works on screen and in print, with contrast checked so text stays legible rather than merely on-brand. Type choices with defined roles, weights and sizes, not a font name in a document.

  • BRD-03

    Brand guidelines

    A short, usable document: what to do, what not to do, and the clearance and colour rules. Written so a printer, a developer or a new hire can follow it without calling us. Long guideline decks do not get read.

  • BRD-04

    Social kit

    Profile and cover artwork at the correct dimensions for every platform you run, plus post and Story templates so the feed holds together instead of looking assembled week by week.

  • BRD-05

    Collateral and print

    Business cards, letterheads, brochures, signage and vehicle artwork prepared to print specification with bleed and colour profiles handled, so the printer does not need to fix anything.

  • BRD-06

    Full file handover

    Vector and raster masters in AI, EPS, SVG, PDF and PNG, every colour variation, organised and named. They are your assets. You hold them whether we keep working together or not.

A brand refresh is often the better call than a rebuild. If the existing mark carries recognition worth keeping, we say so, keep it, and fix the system around it. Replacing something your customers already recognise is a cost, and it needs a reason better than a change of taste.

CRE-04 Video editing

Footage is not content until someone edits it.

Raw footage sells nothing on its own. The cut, the pacing, the sound and the captions decide whether a viewer stays past the first two seconds, and that decision happens before anyone hears your offer.

  • VDO-01

    Short-form

    Reels, TikToks, Shorts and ad cuts. Built to hold attention from the first frame, captioned by default because most of it is watched on mute, and exported in the aspect ratios each platform actually wants.

  • VDO-02

    Long-form

    Explainers, case pieces, interviews and service walkthroughs. Structured edits with a clear line through them rather than everything you filmed in the order you filmed it.

  • VDO-03

    Branded templates

    Intros, outros, lower thirds, caption styling and end cards drawn from the identity system, so the tenth video looks like the first and nobody has to rebuild the look each time.

  • VDO-04

    One shoot, many cuts

    A single session becomes a long-form piece, several short-form cuts, Story frames and ad variants. Most of the cost of video is capture, so the economics improve sharply when the footage is worked properly.

Video runs as one-off projects or as a monthly retainer, whichever suits how often you film. Retainers get priority turnaround and the templates stay loaded, which is usually the cheaper route once you are publishing every month.

CRE-05 Where it pays

Creative is not decoration. It is a cost lever.

Design is the one input that touches every other channel at once. Improve it and four things get cheaper without anything else changing.

PAY-01

Ad creative

On Meta Ads the creative does most of the work the targeting gets credit for. Better assets move cost per result before budget or audiences are touched.

PAY-02

Website conversion

A site that looks credible in the first seconds keeps people reading. The best written page underperforms if the visitor has already decided you are small.

PAY-03

Social output

Templates turn posting from a design task into a scheduling task, which is the difference between a calendar that runs and one that slips.

PAY-04

Sales material

Proposals and decks that match the rest of the brand remove a small doubt at the exact moment someone is deciding whether to spend with you.

This is why branding, graphic design and video editing sit inside the same team as the ads and the website rather than at a separate agency. The assets are made by people who know what they are being made for, and nothing has to be re-cut because the ad platform rejected the dimensions or the site needed a different crop. See web design and development for where the identity lands first.

CRE-06 Project shape

How a branding project actually runs.

Four stages, with the thinking done before anything is drawn. Most bad identity work is not bad design. It is good design solving a problem nobody defined.

01 Week 1

Brief

Who you sell to, who you are up against, what you want people to assume about you, and what the current brand is getting wrong. We look at the competitors' visual territory so you do not land inside it by accident.

02 Weeks 1 to 2

Directions

Distinct routes, each shown in use rather than as a logo floating on white. You are choosing a direction here, not a finished mark, and that distinction keeps the decision honest.

03 Weeks 2 to 3

Refine

The chosen route is developed through revision rounds until it works at every size and in every context you will use it in. Logo projects typically finish around here.

04 Weeks 3 to 6

System and rollout

Guidelines, social kit, collateral, templates and the full file handover. A complete identity system usually runs four to six weeks end to end, depending on how much collateral is in scope.

Ongoing design work runs on a monthly retainer once the system exists, covering whatever the month needs: ad creative, social assets, documents, video. That is normally the point at which consistency stops being something you have to police.

CRE-07 Questions

Questions worth asking before you commission creative.

Straight answers, including the ones that are less convenient for us.

Q-01How many logo directions do I see?
Three distinct directions, deliberately different from each other rather than three versions of the same idea. You pick one, and that one is refined through revision rounds until it works. Showing a dozen options usually means the brief was not clear enough to narrow them.
Q-02What files do I get, and do I own them?
You get every format needed for print and digital: AI, EPS, SVG, PDF and PNG, with all colour variations, organised and labelled. You own them outright. If we stop working together you take the full source set with you, which is not true of every arrangement in this industry.
Q-03How long does a branding project take?
A logo project typically runs two to three weeks. A full identity system including guidelines and collateral is usually four to six weeks, depending on how much is in scope and how quickly feedback comes back. The approval loop is the variable, not the design.
Q-04Can you refresh what we have instead of starting over?
Yes, and it is often the right call. We look at what carries recognition and is worth keeping, then rebuild the system around it: colour, type, application and rules. If the existing mark genuinely cannot be saved we will tell you, but we do not start from a blank page as a default setting.
Q-05Is video editing available as a one-off, or only on retainer?
Both. Single projects are fine if you film occasionally. If you publish every month a retainer is normally better value and faster, because the branded templates are already built and the turnaround is prioritised. We will tell you which one your filming pattern actually justifies.

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