Brand design for Birmingham, without the agency overhead.
Birmingham is well served by large agencies. What it has less of is studios small enough that the person who sold you the work is the person doing it, and senior enough that you'd want them to.
Start a projectThe problem with the big agency model
You meet the creative director at the pitch. The work is then done by whoever has capacity, supervised at a distance, and you see the creative director again at the presentation. Everyone in the industry knows this happens and very few say it out loud.
It isn't dishonesty, it's arithmetic. An agency with permanent staff has to keep them busy, so briefs get matched to availability rather than the other way round.
How we're set up instead
George leads every G&Co project from first conversation to handover. Around that sits a collective of specialists, assembled per brief. The team on a travel rebrand isn't the team on a product interface, and it shouldn't be.
That means senior people throughout, no juniors quietly learning on your budget, and a team genuinely picked for your problem.
Working with us from Birmingham
We're in Warwickshire, well under an hour away. Close enough to be in the room when it matters, far enough that we're not charging you for a city centre office you'll visit twice.
Common questions
- Do you have a Birmingham office?
- No, and we'd rather be honest about that than list an address we don't work from. We're in Warwickshire, well under an hour away, and we travel to clients.
- How does a small studio handle a large project?
- Through the collective. G&Co is a principal plus a group of specialists assembled per project, so capacity scales to the brief without carrying permanent overhead. It's how we handled the Kuoni rollout across retail, campaign, print and digital.