We are a branding and design consultancy in Birmingham, UK, focused on helping you building and managing your brand.

The approach is simple – discover, analyse and understand your business and challenges, then tackle them.

We welcome any creative challenges across all areas of conceptual design, print, online and social media.

We believe in details as much as in the bigger picture. Brands thrive or fail by their ability to spot and react to trends in the market.

We understand that it's not enough to have a pretty logo – and we are here to help you build your brand on solid foundations, with creative applications that will make you proud.

Helping you get your head around where your brand is and where it wants to be. Think brand audit, brand architecture and positioning. It pays long-term to have a solid foundation – and to re-visit your brand on a regular basis, not just when faced with a crisis.

We believe in details as much as in the bigger picture. Brands thrive or fail by their ability to spot and react to trends in the market. We understand that it’s not enough to have a pretty logo – and we are here to help you build your brand on solid foundations, with creative applications that will make you proud.

We handpick our clients. And once we start working together, we become the one thing in their business that’s ‘just sorted’.

That means anything to do with their branding, creative, content creation, graphic design for print or online and general marketing is being looked after, personally by myself and my team.

I have been lucky to enjoy the buzz of a large London design and advertising agency, working on creative campaigns for corporates, such as Mercedes-Benz, Penhaligons and JP Morgan Private Bank. Whilst the work experience was amazing, I missed the close relationship with the clients, usually managed by account handlers.

We set up Essence in 2003 to take those barriers out of the creative process and to deliver agency standard with a very personal touch.

We hand-hold our clients through all the stages of their branding and design project whether it’s print, web or social media. 

Brand strategy

Helping you get your head around where your brand is and where it wants to be.

Think brand audit, brand architecture and positioning. It pays long-term to have a solid foundation – and to re-visit your brand on a regular basis, not just when faced with a crisis.

Design, design, design

Once you have a plan, the creative fun part starts. Visualising a brand is both challenging and extremely exciting.

It never really ends – but along the way we’ll craft your stationery, advertising, brochures, flyers, corporate literature, reports, white papers, exhibition graphics, signage – and of course your website and presence on social media.

Oh, did we mention we have a fantastic network of local and national printers that can provide high-quality, fast-turnaround litho and digital print? Simply ask us for a quote to see if we can save you some money.

Tech (cause we love it)

If your business has data, you have a magic ingredient – if you know how to stir the cauldron.

We embrace technology and will always look for new, innovative ways to make your data dance. That may be with tailored business automations that make your day to day life easier and give you more time, or it may be by designing complex on-site systems to manage your data. 

Everything else…

Without wanting this to sound like a cop out – we really do try to help with anything your brand may need.

Office interior graphics?

Vehicle covers?

Container designs?

Corporate gifts and branded merchandise?

Events planning?

Talk to us – we are here to help!