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We’re pleased to share that our work with Broadridge on Investor Pulse has won a Nicsa NOVA Award for Industry Innovation in Technology.

The project reimagined a traditional PDF report as an interactive, data-rich digital experience. We transformed static investor data into dynamic visualisations and customisable analytics, enabling investors, asset managers and industry professionals to engage more deeply with insights and make better-informed decisions.

You can explore how the work came together in our full case study.

We love seeing the brands that we design out in the world and thriving. Motics recently announced they are now officially part of the Morgan Stanley Inclusive & Sustainable Ventures 2025 cohort with their logo featured on the Nasdaq billboard in Times Square (and no, it’s not AI-generated!). Very exciting news for Motics and great to see the brand continuing to grow with them.

See the brand in action: www.motics.ai

Learn more about the Inclusive & Sustainable Ventures 2025 cohort

We’re proud to have launched our new app, Kick Predict—our take on a quick, social football predictions game that makes it easy to challenge your friends each week.

Kick Predict focuses on speed and friendly rivalry. Pick scores from a selection of fixtures pulled from leagues around the world, create private leagues, and compare results on leaderboards. Predictions lock before kick-off to keep things fair and fun.

Kick Predict is available on iOS and Android. Learn more and play at kickpredict.co.uk.

Proud to see our new product, Green Room in action at Aviva Stadium for Leeds United v AC Milan—delivering seamless, real-time team comms to event staff for a world-class match day.

We’re pleased to announce that Studiomade has been appointed by Confluence, a global leader in investment data management automation, to deliver a key communications project.

This new engagement builds on our extensive experience within the finance and investment sector, where we’ve worked with firms such as Broadridge, Aviva Pensions, and Sesame Bankhall Group to develop strategic communications, shareholder reports, and brand propositions.

Our team will be supporting Confluence in communicating complex financial data with clarity and confidence, helping their message resonate with both institutional clients and industry stakeholders. We’re excited to be collaborating with such an established and innovative business—and to continue building on our experience in the financial communications space.

Stay tuned for more updates as the project unfolds.

We’re excited to be working with FDB on a new phase of their OptimiseRx product, a powerful clinical decision support tool used across the NHS.

Our focus will be on enhancing UI/UX design and delivering user validation and testing to ensure the platform continues to meet the real-world needs of healthcare professionals.

We’re proud to support such an important tool in the delivery of safer, more effective prescribing.

We’re pleased to share the successful completion of our latest project with City & Guilds—a comprehensive direct-to-learner proposition designed to support and engage learners throughout their career journey.

Working closely with the City & Guilds team, we developed a strategic brand and communications framework that positions the organisation to connect directly with learners in a clear, compelling way. The project is now moving into the next phase of its life cycle. Stay tuned!

We’re proud to be working with Educore, a forward-thinking education group dedicated to delivering innovative learning experiences.

Our team has been appointed to support Educore Foundation with strategic brand and communications work as they continue to grow their presence and impact.

Excited to share more soon.

We’re excited to share our latest work creating a new AI healthcare brand for Motics. This project focused on building trust, accessibility, and clarity, delivering a design ready for the future of healthcare. Read the full case study.

We’re thrilled to announce that Studiomade have been appointed by City & Guilds to develop an exciting strategic proposition that will drive their brand forward. This partnership will see our team collaborate closely with one of the UK’s most respected organisations in skills development and lifelong learning, enhancing their ability to connect with new audiences and support their ambitious goals for growth.

We’re excited to share that as winners of our Today & Tomorrow initiative we have partnered with Motics to develop a brand proposition that will empower their rapid growth as a dynamic HealthTech SME. With a focus on providing Motics the tools and strategic clarity to expand with confidence and impact, we’ll be working together to build a brand that embodies their ambitions and speaks to their evolving audience.

We’ve been working with an exciting new client, Sesame Bankhall Group to develop a new-to-market proposition that will expand their impact and offerings. This collaboration marks a pivotal step in delivering an innovative approach tailored to meet evolving market needs.

We’ve created our Today&Tomorrow initiative to give one deserving healthcare-focused company £40k of Studiomade strategy, creative and digital services. By partnering together today, we want to help build a better tomorrow. We are inviting applications from solo founders and early stage startups. The winner will have access to our design expertise and strategic insights, to help you accelerate your growth, connect with investors, and make an impact in the digital health sector.

Congratulations to long-term Studiomade client, MediaSense. As announced today in CampaignLive: “Global media advisor MediaSense is set to acquire PwC UK’s marketing and media owner team. The deal will result in more than 50 people from PwC joining MediaSense. Sam Tomlinson, currently a partner at PwC, will lead the team and become chief client officer at MediaSense. This is the first major acquisition MediaSense has made since Apiary Capital acquired a majority stake in the business. The latter deal was made with the aim of supporting MediaSense’s expansion plans.”

Read more on CampaignLive.

We have launched a new venture to market, Turtle Roll Rum – a unique d2c small-batch rum, with commercial strategy and investment from Unit 29 Ventures, and creative, brand and digital activation from Studiomade. Our design team created a distinctive identity that positions Turtle Roll Rum as a unique independent brand. We also did a custom website and e-commerce build, branded merchandise, and sourced and designed sustainable packaging. The initial limited run of 1,200 is available now at turtlerollrum.com and selected distributors, bars and restaurants. A percentage of profits will be donated to Project Seagrass.

Read the story of Turtle Roll Rum.

Our new article discusses why you need a design partner by your side: to support you with strategy, design, build, branding, launch and everything in between. Embarking on a new venture can be both exciting and daunting, and good design is needed at every step of the process. We can work with you from an early stage, taking an agile, iterative and collaborative approach, with frequent check-ins and milestones. People we work with (especially larger companies) are often surprised how fast, yet still thoroughly, progress can be made. 

Read it on LinkedIn.

Broadridge is one of the world’s biggest fintech companies, with more than $6bn in revenues. It knew that asset managers were facing a complex range of challenges and wanted to create DistributionAI, a custom-made generative AI. Our work included UI, UX, support with logic and customer journey definition, and integration with Broadridge’s existing asset management platform. The result is an AI tool that gives leadership, strategy, product and sales teams the intelligence and insights they need to compete in a fast-paced, changing environment. Read the case study.

How can digital healthcare better serve older people? How can we go above and beyond accessibility guidelines? Our new report is packed with ideas and insights. Discover how optimising digital health tools for our ageing demographic can elevate society, the economy and your healthcare venture – and relieve pressure on the NHS. We look beyond accessibility, into older people’s unique needs and desires. Age isn’t the only factor shaping preferences. We want to shift the paradigm of design for older people and create a brighter, healthier future.

Read our full Insight report.

Super interesting evening at the Design Age Institutes Pathfinders Networking event always enlightening to chat to other people delivering projects with the same aim. We really enjoyed speakers from Startup School for Seniors, Home Office to Age in Place, Clarion Housing Group and Walk With Path Limited, who spoke about their time on the Pathfinder Programme, as well as interesting insights into inclusive-design and user-research. Here’s to many more evenings!

Congratulations to GIG for its listing on the Euronext Amsterdam stock exchange today. It’s great to see this energy initiative growing its business. Interconnectors (big transmission cables that move energy between neighbouring countries) and interconnected grids are a key component in global energy strategies. They enable excess power, e.g. from wind and solar farms, to be traded and shared between countries so that renewable energy isn’t wasted and the power system is greener and more efficient. They can help to lower electricity supply prices for consumers. We provided the design support GIG needed to achieve the listing, creating the branding and designing and building its new digital presence.

“The digital template we’ve created is good for fund investors and compliant with the rules and is just one part of the end-to-end solution which provides the scale and automation companies are seeking.”

Broadridge has announced the launch of a template and end-to-end process solution for fund companies and fund administrators that simplifies the steps involved in creating and providing the SEC’s new Tailored Shareholder Reports.

Read our case study.

Very excited to have won a pitch for a new client ‘Send it to Alex’ who deliver virtual supported employment services for neurodivergent and disabled people. Over the next few months we’ll be working with them to design and build their very first MVP support platform for individuals and employers with an aim to launch in June this year.

We’re thrilled to unveil our latest campaign for the Department for International Trade, Life Sciences Innovator. Showcasing UK companies at the forefront of global life sciences innovation, the campaign highlights their unique specialisms and impact on the world stage.

We crafted a dynamic, forward-facing identity – delivering the full campaign experience, including visual direction, website, video content, social activation and a comprehensive brand toolkit. The result is a consistent and engaging platform designed to elevate and support the sector.

Explore the campaign at lifesciencesinnovator.co.uk

Working with our client Edelman, we have added some exciting new updates to the Nissan Electric Travel Guide. Now featuring more roadtrips, more cities and a better user experience for all. Available in 5 languages. Check it out for yourself at nissantravelguide.com

We are very excited to be partnering with long-term client Broadridge on a new project for a website design & build, and brand growth project. The Hong Kong Investment Funds Association (“HKIFA”) is a non-profit-making industry organisation that represents the fund management industry of Hong Kong. We’re helping to reposition the look and feel of the organisation, their digital platform and better integrate data to improve member experience. Keep your eyes peeled for launch.

Congratulations to our friends over at Funding Options who today announce their acquisition by Tide – the leading digital business banking platform! As part of Tide, Funding Options mission to connect UK SMEs to the right finance will be supercharged – helping even more businesses continue to trade during tougher times, to prosper when growth opportunities arise and to successfully plan for the future. Read more about the acquisition: https://bit.ly/3GW6Oea

Lovely to share a little kudos about our exciting Hearing Birdsong digital product. Awwwards have recognised our design and development with an Honourable mention – with fantastic scores received for both UI + UX of the product. Super proud 🙂

UK startups took half of Europe’s biotech VC funding in record-setting 2021 (according to the BioIndustry Association and Clarivate). This rapid expansion and global attention is requiring, more than ever, solid branding and well thought out digital product design alongside brand growth. Learn more from our useful top tips.

Are you a fund brand trying to navigate digital transformation? We have a vast amount of experience within the finance industry helping brands to clarify their digital offer and communicate effectively. We’ve just released some top tips on ways to manage your transition (PDF, 3mb) on our insight series.

As the next part in our insight series we’ve created a cheat sheet around digital strategies to build consumer engagement. We’ve delivered campaigns for Unilever, Nissan, Getir and more and so have shared some starting points to think around when you’re creating a digital campaign as well as some tips on how to avoid the common pitfalls during the planning stages.

Download the PDF: https://lnkd.in/d587-TTk

We were approached by Nissan through our trusted partners at Edelman to create a unique digital activation campaign to promote low carbon footprint adventures, best undertaken in Nissan’s electric vehicles. They wanted it to be exciting, digitally-led, easily shareable and measurable with the plan to launch exclusively for influencers as part of an event in Stockholm. Read the case study to see our approach or try the guide for yourself.

We’ve launched our new Insight Series, publishing what we hope are helpful views on topics related to the work we do with our clients.

We’re kicking things off with Four steps to launch a digital product (PDF, 1.3mb). It offers a top level look at our tried-and-tested process for building a digital product from concept through to launch.

We are excited to announce that one of our most recent projects ‘Hearing Birdsong’ is going to be exhibited as part of the Design Museum’s ‘Future of Ageing’ exhibition.

‘Hearing Birdsong’ is a digital product designed for people to screen themselves for hearing loss in the comfort of their own homes and is a concept created by Tom Woods, co-founder of Kennedy Woods, a practice that creates positive social impact through user-centred design & architecture. The project is being funded by the Design Age Institute.

Our role in this project has been creative and digital partner – designing, illustrating and developing the working digital prototype that will be active as part of ongoing user testing, and showcased at the ‘Future of Ageing’ exhibition.

Practitioners, researchers, engineers, designers and people with hearing loss have all helped to get Hearing Birdsong to a stage of delivering a working prototype which we are all very excited about. Immerse yourself in the rich soundscape at beta.hearingbirdsong.com or learn more about the exhibition.

Great to see our client, Left Field Live, establishing landmark pre-season tours including Crystal Palace facing Manchester United in Melbourne. Palace will play Manchester United on Tuesday, 19th July (20:10 AEST / 11:10 am BST) at the iconic Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) in Victoria, Australia, which seats 100,000. As reported by Crystal Palace’s communications team, the news will be warmly received by the their Australian fans, as well as those intending to travel from England.

Crystal Palace F.C. Chairman Steve Parish said: “We are absolutely delighted to be visiting Australia for the first time in the club’s history, even more so following our two planned trips in recent pre-seasons being postponed due to COVID. “It will be fantastic to finally witness Crystal Palace play in Australia, and to do so at the iconic MCG in front of our Australian fans and strong travelling support is something the entire squad and staff, led by Patrick Vieira, are excited about.”

Today we’ve launched a concise overview of where fund management brands should focus when looking to achieve successful digital transformation. With finance-sector expertise through working with established brand organisations across EMEA, APAC and the US, we are well-positioned to help fund brands improve their customer experience, digital activation and strategic positioning within the market. Download our quick guide

Bleepa, Feedback Medical’s secure imaging app that connects medical professionals safely and securely are attending India’s IRIA 2022 event. The 4-day schedule represents the beginning for a number of our clients of stepping back into the live event space for customer connection and engagement. We wish the whole Bleepa team success as they begin building a wider brand presence within the Indian healthcare sector.

We’re pleased to say that our Vimeo channel has just been updated to add in fresh videos from some of our latest projects. View our showreel.

We are excited to announce that we are working on a project that has the potential to help millions of people. Hearing loss drives many critical age-related challenges, including social isolation, with strong links to increased dementia risks and cognitive deterioration. Hearing Birdsong is an immersive digital audioscape that uses the inviting sound of British birdsong to engage people with their hearing health and remove the barriers of social stigma and poor user design.

Our team have won the competitive tender to support both the Design Age Institute and Kennedy Woods in designing and developing the digital experience and app prototype for Hearing Birdsong. The product will be showcased this summer in The Design Museum.

The global population is continuing to age, with the pace of ageing increasing rapidly. In 2019, the United Nations’ World Population Prospects report projected that by 2030, the number of people aged 60 and over will rise by 38 per cent, from 1 billion to 1.4 billion. Globally, this age group will outnumber youth, and the increase will be greatest and fastest in the developing world – a very hot topic, and one that is a priority for countries across the globe.

We are proud to have launched a thought leadership campaign on behalf of Healthcare UK and the government that frames this global issue and discovers points of action. Read more in the case study.

Continuing our partnership work with both Edelman and Nissan, our colour-centric motion campaign has been released across EMEA. View the press release or read more in-depth information in our case study.

Today our digital activation for Getir, partnered through CAA, launched at the Tottenham Hotspurs vs Manchester United match. Encouraging user engagement through competition mechanics, the digital product has already begun receiving live traffic and the team are excited to how this can help build fanbase engagement over the coming months. Read our case study.