Award-winning brand and design for small to medium enterprises
Case studies
Guided by brand purpose, strategy and considered design, our work connects with hearts and minds.
How we can help:
Brand packages – Bespoke brand toolkits for SMEs
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Communications strategy
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Brand identity and corporate suite design
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Print and digital marketing communications
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Website design and build
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Social media design and content
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Publication design
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Corporate reporting
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Environment graphics and wayfinding
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How we can help: Brand packages – Bespoke brand toolkits for SMEs • Communications strategy • Brand identity and corporate suite design • Print and digital marketing communications • Website design and build • Social media design and content • Publication design • Corporate reporting • Environment graphics and wayfinding |
Why partner with us
Results
Our purpose is to help build trust, reputation, engagement and growth. Here’s what we’ve achieved with our clients so far.
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International Tennis Federation
A design concept based on Chinese calligraphy. The cover design, on closer inspection, is an illustration of tennis players in action.
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Central Kitchen
We’ve helped launch four restaurant brands in retail and digital spaces combining old-school craft and cutting edge technology.
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On-Pack Recycling Label (OPRL)
Partnering with OPRL for ten years, the company is now the UK’s go-to recycling label resource with a 700% increase in scheme membership.
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International Tennis Federation
A unique Sports Association photobook of the top twenty tennis players in the world imagining being an Olympian in an alternative sport.
Client experience
We adapt leading brand experience and insight to cross-sector, multi-channel projects at any scale.
Sectors we currently work in:
Arts and culture
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Beauty and wellness
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Food and drink
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Lifestyle and interiors
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Music, entertainment and events
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Professional services
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Property
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Restaurants and bars
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Retail
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Sport
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Sectors we currently work in: Arts and culture • Beauty and wellness • Food and drink • Lifestyle and interiors • Music, entertainment and events • Professional services • Property • Restaurants and bars • Retail • Sport |
Client/agency testimonials
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Elen worked with us on a number of key property-focused projects, in particular a fully integrated marketing communications campaign for The Levers, a major redevelopment project in Elephant and Castle on behalf of Peabody, and ongoing marketing collateral for L&Q – including hoardings, press advertising and web/social media campaigns.
She is conscientious, has a personable can-do attitude, a great eye for detail and is adept at taking on projects from concept to artwork: a great asset to any property client or busy studio.
Jason Bannister: Head of Design
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Elen joined our team as a contract Senior Designer for two corporate reporting seasons. She was excellent: highly creative, versatile, and produced some fantastic work for Team Lewis (Instinctif) ranging from annual reports to branding and beyond. She is a pleasure to work with; has the right attitude and work ethic and is always willing to go the extra mile to get the job done. I cannot recommend her highly enough.
Serena Choudhury: Associate Partner
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Elen is an extremely capable and thoughtful senior creative with many years experience of clients, industries and disciplines to draw upon. She is diligent and challenges the brief to ensure she can come up with good answers to what can be sometimes complicated and intangible briefs. She has high standards of design and aesthetics, so will always aim for a great idea and a well executed one to boot.
Brigid McMullen: Managing Director
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I have worked with Elen at Brave for a number of years on various branding projects and found her to be exceptionally creative. She goes more than the extra mile to deliver outstanding solutions that are quality driven – way above much of what I’ve ever seen before from other branding specialists.
Any client or agency that benefits from Elen’s exceptional talent and contacts with a support network of senior creatives, will take their business in a direction that they genuinely might not have thought was possible.
Doug Barber: Managing Director
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We’ve worked with Brave on our Central Kitchen restaurant ventures in Brussels for seven years; as our go-to branding partner. Starting with our Dam Sum Chinese Restaurant chain; then our second key restaurant venture – Can Tho, focusing on Vietnamese cuisine. As we developed our offering into digital restaurant solutions, Brave created the Damn Damn Noodles and Bim Bam Boum digital brands. Finally, when we needed an umbrella brand to unify our organisation, we turned to Elen for her understanding of corporate communication. Brave was therefore behind the Central Kitchen branding drive also.
As a design partner we’d describe Elen as inventive, collaborative, having a hands-on, can- do attitude – with a flair for producing work which not only answer our briefs, but has aided us in pushing innovative, new creative directions with confidence. To summarise, Elen (and her extended team on occasion) has been an instrumental asset to our brand’s development and we recommend her highly – including her capacity to take on international projects.
Damien Toulouse: Managing Director
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I recommend working with Elen highly. She manages to balance a strong opinion on design (and strategy), alongside a softness and flexibility to work collaboratively in a highly dynamic team environment with young people. My team really enjoys working with Elen (as do I). She brings creativity, care, a commitment to mentorship alongside a maverick spirit – all of which have been integral to the success of the genre-breaking graphic novel and guided novel [Re]Start: It's Never Too Late.
James Pattinson: Managing Director
Insights and community
Insight-share and an inclusive space to engage in ideas that help support and develop people, business and community.
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Your company is a brand. Let’s dispel the myths.
In our experience, smaller companies tend to equate branding with large corporations and big expenditure. We aim to demystify the notion that branding has to be complicated or costly. Let’s review what branding is and its integral role in business.
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Creative Services: What are you investing in?
Investing in Creative Services means putting funds or time into strategic branding, design, content creation and marketing communications in order to build robust, long-term business assets. Underpinning this, you’re buying skills, knowledge and experience.
Posted by Elen Swetman @ BraveCreative
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How brand strategy helps business growth
Branding, and the brand strategy that underpins this, is about increasing the perceived value of a product or service: helping you to create tangible, premium, and more empathetic associations in the minds of your target audience.
Posted by Elen Swetman @ BraveCreative
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Is the logo dead?
A contentious and ongoing question within the creative community. In our opinion a logo should be utilised as a unique visual asset to identify, and differentiate your company. Underestimating its purpose and value weakens your brand.
Posted by Elen Swetman @ BraveCreative
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Collaborations
Here you’ll find additional projects and partnerships with agencies. Keep visiting the site to see what we’re up to.
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Mangata: Arts & Culture branding
We’re currently working on developing the Mangata String Orchestra brand for Global Entertainment Consulting: The first of a suite of sub-brands under the GEC umbrella.
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Pawz: A global app for dog lovers
It’s exciting to work new ventures. Pawz is a concept with a compelling brand story behind it and we’ve advised on strategy, identity and advertising concepts to date.
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s|three: Corporate communications
We’ve collaborated with Mr B & Friends in Bristol over two years on projects ranging from branding and guidelines, employee engagement campaigns, communications and reporting.
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Fish Tales: Restaurant branding
When a much-loved Clifton village restaurant (formally New Moon Tapas) changed direction, we helped with the identity, fascia signage, menu designs and marketing collateral.
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Ericsson: Corporate reporting
We’ve provided additional resource on corporate reporting and digital presentations for Ericsson and other high profile clients for Harleys Global over the past two years.
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Granger Reis: Corporate communications
Working with Halo, Bristol, we’ve helped design a key corporate presentation for a leading recruitment organisation: evolving strategy, messaging and visual identity for the year ahead.
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Dowry Square: Brand and website design
Using our environment branding experience, our goal is to help put Dowry Square, Bristol, literally on the map: promoting its historical interest and community activities to inspire others.
Agency collaborations:
Barber Design
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Bell Integrated
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Conran Design Group
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Design Bridge & Partners
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Halo
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Harleys Global
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Mr B & Friends
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Radley Yeldar
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Sectorlight
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Socrates
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Son of Jesse
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Team Lewis
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Workroom
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Agency collaborations: Barber Design • Bell Integrated • Conran Design Group • Design Bridge & Partners • Halo • Harleys Global • Mr B & Friends • Radley Yeldar • Sectorlight • Socrates • Son of Jesse • Team Lewis • Workroom |
Contact us
Got a project in mind? Let’s chat. Brave new partners welcome. We’d love to hear from you.
For new business enquiries please email
elen@bravecreative.uk
Location:
9 Dowry Square,
Bristol, BS8 4SH
Studio Brave LTD trading as ‘Brave’. Registered in England and Wales: Company No. 07103751. Registered address: 9 Dowry Square, Bristol, UK, BS8 4SH.
