Choose a designer to work with

Creative work is achieved best as a partnership, rather than as a set of items to be delivered. Find out how best to work with creative suppliers and learn about the skills they bring to Sussex.

Before you commission creative work

 Find out what to do first.

• How to get started

  The first thing you need to do is chat to the Digital and Creative Media team, who can help you decide the best creative and channel mix to fit your plan. The best way to do that is to fill in our new creative project briefing form. This will come through to the Digital and Creative Media team.

  You can get the best help from the Digital and Creative Media team by sharing information about the project early on. The whole team will then be better able to support the project, for example, by helping you publish content or get branding approval.

  Contact us if you have any questions about briefing creative work or deciding whether you need to write a brief: dcm@sussex.ac.uk

• Marketing plans and planned projects

  If you’re based in a School at Sussex, you’ll need to make sure that your planned materials fit into the Schools marketing plan. Check in with your Marketing Manager before commissioning creative work.

  If you are in Brighton and Sussex Medical School, Institute of Development Studies, Sussex Estates and Facilities or Sussex Innovation Centre, in the first instance you should contact your marketing/communications team.

Our creative suppliers roster

The following creative partners are trusted to deliver on-brand creative that fulfils the required brief and resonates with our audiences. Explore the ‘about’ sections to learn about their work and skills they bring to Sussex.

Babushka

1 Chingford Road
London
E17 4PW
020 7112 8811
jessica@hellobabushka.com
www.hellobabushka.com

Contact: Jessica Philpott

• About Babushka

  Babushka specialises in brand identity, art direction and design for print and digital communications.

  Babushka is led by Jessica Philpott, who you will be working with on all University of Sussex projects. Jessica has a background in branding and design – previously working for a decade at agency The Partners (now Design Bridge & Partners) in London and New York.

  Babushka joined the University of Sussex creative in 2018 and has completed many projects for the University, both large and small, from full campaigns to one-off posters.

• Work for Sussex
  • Campaigns (print and digital)
  • Brand communications
  • Print and editorial design
  • Marketing collateral
  • Photography art direction
  • Digital design and advertising
  • Naming and copywriting
  • Illustration
  • Environmental graphics
  • Signage, maps and floorplans
  • Mini prospectus
  • Merchandise design

Baxter and Bailey

The Colour Rooms
12 Richmond Parade
Brighton BN2 9QD
020 3021 3830
dom@baxterandbailey.co.uk
www.baxterandbailey.co.uk

Contact: Dom Bailey

• About Baxter and Bailey

   We are a multi award-winning creative agency based in Brighton. We combine brand strategy, brand identity, digital design and development to help our clients make a positive impact in the world. Our team of 12 is made up of strategists, account managers, designers and digital developers.

  We’ve always focused on doing work we believe in, and building long-term partnerships with clients we admire. We take great pride in our collaborative approach, working with our clients to deliver brilliant creative results with impact. The point is to do work that matters. Work you care about. Work you can look back on and feel proud of.

  We partner with ambitious clients across a broad range of sectors and industries, from education, the arts and finance, to media, charities and non-profit. Our dedication to producing work with meaning and impact has led to a huge range of projects – from development of brand strategies and propositions, to visual identity systems, broadcast campaigns and progressive web development.

• Specialisms
  • Brand strategy
  • Digital strategy
  • Brand identity and architecture
  • Messaging and tone of voice
  • Digital design, UI and UX
  • Front end development
  • Campaigns
  • Environments and exhibitions
  • Content 
  • Video and motion
  • Print
  • Art direction

Chimney Design

25 Brownleaf Road
Brighton BN2 6LD
01273 243387 / 07720 847142
louise@chimneydesign.co.uk
www.chimneydesign.co.uk

Contact: Louise Harvey

• About Chimney Design

  Chimney is a Brighton-based design agency offering a creative, professional service, while keeping projects on-time and within budget. We offer a high level of creativity based on clarity and good ideas. Our services include design for print, branding, illustration and digital design.

  Chimney have worked with the University of Sussex since 2007 on a wide range of projects from student recruitment campaigns, prospectuses, and publications such as Falmer magazine, the financial statements and the graduation programme, to research reports, exhibition materials, digital advertising and explainer videos.

  Louise and Emma have over twenty five years of experience within the creative industry.

• Clients include:

  Since forming in 2004, Chimney has grown a client base across both public and private sectors including Imperial College London, UCL, the University of Brighton, Sussex Learning Network, HSBC, Barclays and The London Book Fair.

Designate

4 St George's Place
Brighton
BN1 4GA
01273 704040
cillian.carton@designate.com
www.designate.com

Contact: Cillian Carton 

• About Designate

  Designate is a Brighton-based independent creative agency of around twenty people. We offer a top-to-bottom 360-degree service from big thinking around creative and brand strategy to the detail of creative delivery. That includes everything from visual identity work to advertising campaigns across all platforms from TV and outdoor to digital banners and social media.

  We love to trigger bigger thinking with what we do. That means working with you to come up with the power ideas that move and shape brands. And we love working on creative campaigns that will give you a unique identity and voice and standout from the competition.

  Our creative department is full of art directors, copywriters and designers who have a vast amount of experience, expertise and passion for creating and concepting and delivering campaign work. Our love of print, film, digital, typography, copy all fire us up, excite us and get our hearts and brains pumping.

• Clients include:
  • LV=
  • Brittany Ferries
  • i360
  • dnata
  • MetLife
  • Eurocamp

Door 22 Creative

86-90 Paul Street
London EC2A 4NE
033 3939 0122
emma@door22.co.uk
www.door22.co.uk

Contact: Emma Nicol

• About Door 22 Creative

  A small creative team, we are a remote-model agency. We bring in other specialists when required such as Plain English proofreaders, copywriters and editors.

  As a team we always happy help in the briefing (or even pre-briefing) process and seem to relish a slightly awkward project that needs a bit of a different approach, whether that’s a tight deadline or an innovative solution. We are used to discovering the missing pieces and joining the dots so don’t feel as though a brief needs to be a beautifully finalised manuscript.

  We love to help develop a campaign idea or a new brand initiative. We can be well behaved and bring a chunky brochure to life faithfully on-brand but we also like to be bold and cheeky if given half the chance. Print or campaign style projects are our main bag as well as ones requiring commissioning and bringing in photography, illustration and data visualisation.
  

• Clients include:
  • NHS
  • World Health Organisation
  • The Association for Science Education
  • EngineeringUK
  • National Migraine Centre
  • SPANA
  • FORWARD
  • WheelPower

GOOD Agency

5 St John’s Lane
London, EC1M 4BH
020 3394 1558
Lucy.Martin@goodagency.co.uk / daniel.webb@goodagency.co.uk
www.wearegood.com

Contact: Lucy Martin / Daniel Webb

• About GOOD

  GOOD was established almost 30 years ago with a vision to help organisations create a better world. Today, we continue to be an independent purpose-driven agency delivering strategy and creative services to some of the world’s largest brands and charities.

  We are driven by our passion to use brilliant communication to create positive social and environmental change. Our work has helped raise over £1.5billion for charities and has transformed international businesses through Purpose.

  We are an employee-owned company and take pride in being the UK’s highest-ranking B-Corp creative agency.

Irish Butcher

Unit 67, Containerville
38-40 The Oval
London E2 9DT
0790 4029739
nadine@irishbutcher.co.uk
www.irishbutcher.co.uk

Contact: Nadine Fleischer

• About Irish Butcher

  Irish Butcher is led by Nadine Fleischer who will be working on University projects with you.

  Logic and efficiency mixed with creativity galore are what make Irish Butcher unique.

  Nadine always aims at generating bright ideas that connect with the audience and communicate your message effectively. She is confident in creating unique design proposals and art direction but also happy to artwork and work with existing design.

  Nadine has a background in print design, editorial design and typography and specialises in any creative print design in addition to 2D exhibition design and wayfinding.

• Clients include:
  • The Tate
  • The Natural History Museum
  • The Courtauld Institute
  • The University of Sussex
  • London Transport Museum
  • UCL
  • Metropolitan Workshop
  • V&A Dundee

Ivana Ćatović Studio

ivana@icstudio.co.uk
icstudio.co.uk

Contact: Ivana Ćatović

• About Ivana Ćatović Studio

  I am a freelance design lead with over 15 years’ experience, both agency-side and in-house. I have worked for big and small clients, and I am used to fast-paced environments. I look after projects from the initial brief to delivery. I can help define and develop design direction for a campaign and implement it (or oversee its implementation) across all assets.

  I have a lot of experience in visual branding (print and digital) including full company re-brands, new campaigns, and improvements to the existing brand guidelines. I can take on cross-platform campaign-style projects, as well as detail-focused ones. My side-passions are lettering and illustration, which often come in useful on larger projects. I also work as a UX/UI consultant (currently designing a product for a finance company) and would love to work on your website.
  

• Clients include:
  • Ferrero (Kinder, Kinder Surprise, Nutella, Tic-Tac, Raffaello, Ferrero Rocher)
  • Vodafone
  • Sure (Rexona)
  • Snog
  • Prudential
  • Aquafresh
  • Electrolux
  • Carlsberg
  • Bentley Motors
  • Porsche
  • Comic Relief
  • Teach First
  • Sony
  • Asics
  • Mars
  • Janssen
  • Sky.

Off the Top of My Head

07971 877551
john@offthetopofmyhead.co.uk
www.offthetopofmyhead.co.uk

Contact: John Spencer

• About Off the Top of My Head

  Offthetopofmyhead was founded by me, John Spencer. I work in collaboration with some of the most talented and experienced people around and bring together the best team of specialists for each project.

  Offthetopofmyhead is creatively led but all our work is underpinned by a sound understanding of business strategy so everything we create is on the mark. Our brand experience has given us a deep understanding of how every aspect of an organisation’s communications needs to come together.

  Offthetopofmyhead waves the flag for instinct, imagination and the sheer joy of doing things which haven’t been done before, working across:

  • Brand positioning, strategy and narrative
  • Brand identity
  • Messaging
  • Tone of voice
  • Printed and digital communications
  • Fundraising and awareness campaigns.
• Clients include:
  • Aston University
  • Cambridge University Boat Club
  • Cancer Research Wales
  • Royal College of Nursing
  • Sadler’s Wells
  • Teach First
  • The National Archives
  • The Royal Academy of Engineering
  • University of Cambridge

Red Brick Road

58 Great Sutton Street
London EC1V 0DG
020 7575 7654
david.miller@redbrickroad.com
www.redbrickroad.com

Contact: David Miller

• About Red Brick Road

  Red Brick Road is an award-winning creative agency. We shape brand and campaign strategies; and then use creative and design ideas to bring these to life.

  We specialise in strategy, brand advertising and performance marketing; helping organisations to build distinctive branding and clear voices in all aspects of their communications (from posters and brochures, to PR, digital, emails, influencers and social media content creation).

  We create and develop brand personalities and brand worlds, helping to get organisations noticed.

• Clients include:

  Our clients include big brands such as the Post Office, Hilton Hotels and Amazon; NGOs and Membership groups including British Business Bank, GS1 UK and British Berry Growers; as well as start-up and scale-up brands such as Nix&Kix, NOMO Chocolate and Auddy.

Studio Exon

5 Rose Cottages, Rectory Lane
Timsbury, Bath BA2 0LA
07966 187233
tom@studioexon.co.uk
www.studioexon.co.uk

Contact: Tom Exon

• About Studio Exon

  Studio Exon is one well-connected creative director and designer. I specialise in brand and communications and work with a close and trusted network of creative people across almost all disciplines including;

  • Strategy
  • Planning
  • Design
  • Copywriting
  • Animation
  • Illustration
  • Digital development - with decades of experience to bring to the table. 

  Often you might just need me, but when the brief requires it, I can handpick and lead the team you need, for the job you need to do. 

  Thoughtful, strategic, visual communication is your language that connects you to your students and stakeholders, enabling you to build a strong and fruitful relationship with them.  We’ll ensure that your brand resonates with your audiences through everything you do – whether that’s a large-scale campaign, a piece of print, a social media post or an email signature. We’ll ask the right questions and work with you to shape every brief to mean you meet every challenge head on with helpful, accessible, and impactful design and creative solutions.

• Clients include:
  Tom has worked with a variety of clients that include: Unite Foundation, University of Gloucestershire, University of Bristol, The National Trust, Cakesmiths, Think Drinks, Celtic Trails, Roche, Amgen and Launceston Town Council.  

Two Pens

Two Pens Ltd
The Annexe, 1 Trinity Trees
BN21 3LA
ed@twopens.co.uk
twopens.co.uk

Contact: Ed Hughes

• About Two Pens

  We are a small design and branding studio, focused on creating work that connects with people. We love to work closely with our clients to find the best solutions. We have a keen eye (and obsession) for typography and colour; our strength lies in the simple combination of the two. From this foundation we create visual identities, print and digital campaigns, wayfinding, logos and websites (and hopefully all of the above at the same time!)

  We work with clients large and small; from local cafés and businesses to cultural institutions, (including Towner, Charleston and the De La Warr pavilion), international coffee companies and charities. We pride ourselves in producing individual and creative work for every project.

• Clients include:

  Alongside a wide variety of clients, we have a number in the local cultural sector, including Towner, Charleston, Devonshire Collective, the De La Warr pavilion, Culture East Sussex and Creative Newhaven.

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