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Welcome to design to communicate: a multi-channelled design studio delivering thought-provoking, user-led communications across branding, print, strategy and web.
Our aim is simple: to produce audience focused communications that deliver a clear message through a functional and creative approach. Based close to Tower Bridge, London; we have a range of clients with all sorts of requirements, from independent self-starters to corporate institutions, and we treat them all with the same dedicated service.
About DTC
Consult. Create. Captivate.
First things first, we love design. Like a double mocha with cream, design and everything that comes with it makes the dtc team feel warm inside. The concepts that we create, and the ideas that we deliver, come from our passion to engage with our clients. We spend whatever time necessary consulting to determine our client's exact needs before going to work creating something that will captivate their audience.
We're proud to be a small design studio that packs a punch. Our skill sets cover strategy, design and implementation and we get fired up about challenges that test us, driving us to progress and ultimately enabling us and you to create something special.
dtc: the complete package
We successfully provide design solutions to our clients across the following areas:
- Brand identities: working both with existing brands and creating fresh inspiration
- Design for print
- Strategic direction and brand positioning
- Design for screen and web: we design and build web applications and sites -
AJAX, CSS, FLASH, HTML PHP; we speak them all.
Our Team
Phil Reid
Director
With over 10 years' experience in the design industry, Phil has a proven track record in both digital and print mediums. His effective approach is tested across a wide range of disciplines with skills that cover strategy, design and implementation. Driven by creating conceptually led design solutions, Phil’s ability and knowledge ensures design deadlines are consistently met and client expectations surpassed.
Support Team
Everyone involved in dtc gets fired up about challenges that test us, pushing us to progress and ultimately enabling us and you to create something special.
Backed by a team that conceive and deliver design solutions that go that ‘extra mile’, the strategies put in place by dtc have proudly supported both national organisations and SMEs alike.
Marc Johns
Designer
A dedicated designer who is a whizz at all things Mac! With a keen eye for detail and a background that spans both product and graphic design, Marc has been translating conceptual thoughts to on-screen designs for over four years.
Sam Small
Designer
A designer with a grounding in illustration and new media adds a unique creative touch to the work produced at dtc. Highly proficient in conceptual sketching, and translating these through to on-screen creations, Sam knows Adobe Illustrator inside out.
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Our services
Your brand is your most important asset. It says who you are and what you stand for, so it is not something we at dtc take lightly.
Experience has taught us that an established brand needs to remain fresh, so we think progressively to help maintain your status at the top. A brand needs to be noticed, so our job is to get creative, delivering cutting-edge design that truly reflects you and the messages that you want to communicate.
Designing for print is as different from web work as instant coffee is to ground, we appreciate this and keep an open mind in our approach. It matters little if we are designing an exciting new sustainability report or a simple press release, we will attack it all with the same vigour and passion to give it the right look and feel.
We take into account both the form and function required and use all sorts of technical wizardry to produce a product that any reader simply would not want to put down.
Your vision and values matter, it should drive what is positive about your business and empower both those that work for you, and the clients that you service. What we need to know is what gets you going and how we can spread that positive energy through everything associated with your business.
Creating a strategy takes time, it does not come overnight. At dtc we pride ourselves on putting in the hours necessary to not just get the job done, but get it done right. For us it is in the details, we want to understand you and your business so that we can put your message across in a clear and concise manner.
We will not just design your website, we will build it, from scratch, using all the tools of the trade. Don't know your PHP from your HTML? Think AJAX is just a detergent? Leave it to us, this is our language, and at dtc we speak it fluently.
These days a company without a website is not a company, and a company with a poor site is not much better off. We will help make your site leap from the screen and have all visitors and regular users alike whizzing around with comfort and ease. Not just that, but we are on call whenever you need to make amends, or because things just happen.