Opal Brand Evolution
As companies grow, their original brand can cease to reflect what the business has become. Sometimes creating a whole new brand is necessary if there’s a new business direction. Another approach is allowing the existing brand to evolve – retaining familiar elements that still reflect the business for continuity, and setting them within a new […]
Tell your story
Last week I had the pleasure of talking to a client for a couple of hours as part of a project to evolve their branding, and documenting their brand’s values. I’ve worked with this client for over 18 months, and we’ve helped her align her digital look and feel with her fabulous boutique bridal store. […]
Growing Business Through Lockdown
We were as busy as ever through lockdown. Since March we have continued to support existing clients and taken on five more as businesses took the opportunity to overhaul their brand and marketing, or launch new companies. We are proud to be supporting businesses who are forward thinking and used lockdown to prepare to come […]
Sharing Inspiration
As designers, it’s great to always share what we’re looking at for inspiration in the design world. I thought I would pull together some of our favourite pieces of design that we’ve spotted recently. Grinning Face Coconut Milk Neat little idea for Grinning Face Coconut Milk. This coconut milk is made purely of coconut and […]
World Brand Design Society Features Nutribl
It’s great to see our work for clients in ‘real life’ situations on packaging and marketing material. It’s also great to have the support of other designers, and our work creating the brand for Nutribl has been featured recently on the World Brand Design Society website. WBDS, founded in 2008, highlights exceptional consumer packaging design […]
Industry Insight for Design Students
Wonderstuff design director Kerry Neesam graduated from Teesside University with a first class honours degree in graphic design in 2013, and earlier this year returned to help current students gain an insight into the industry. “This was before lockdown in March,” Kerry explained. “So it was great to meet the students in person and share […]
New Brew for 12 Beers Range
Black Storm Brewery has released the latest in their limited edition 12 Beers range. Beer No10 is Mojito Lager, packed with real lime, mint and rum. To produce the beers for the range Black Storm has worked with independent craft breweries around the country. The branding and artwork for the cans, by independent illustrators, has […]
Behind the brand – Nutribl
Troo Healthcare, a North East-based private label supplement business, asked us to create a brand for a new company they were launching. They had previously supplied both consumers and business clients, but the time had come to create a separate company to specialise in the business market. We worked closely with the Troo Healthcare team […]
One day to go for the Flintlab crowdfunder
With just one day to go till our Flintlab crowdfunder ends, we’re asking anyone who’s still thinking about supporting our local coworking and office space to do it now! Pledges start at £5 with a donation or you can take up one of our crowdfunder offers. These include a set of six fun Flintlab stickers […]
Sharing Inspiration
You may have read a couple of my previous posts sharing inspiration that we look at day to day to stay inspired and up to date with design trends. In my previous job, I was a lecturer at a private design college and a big part of my role was to create an inspirational environment […]
Stay Inspired
You may have read my post back in February where I spoke about my past experience in teaching Graphic Design and how I have a love for supporting and inspiring others. One way of inspiring those around me is by sharing examples of incredible creative work on my LinkedIn that has particularly caught my eye, […]
Proud to be involved in Support Newcastle.
We are proud to be involved in Support Newcastle; an initiative set up to support businesses in and around the Newcastle area during and after Covid19! The businesses of Newcastle need the support of their community – you should get involved: https://www.supportnewcastle.co.uk/ From Support Newcastle: “So many people, families and businesses have been affected by […]
healthmonitr™ | A collaboration project
healthmonitr™ is a project we’re proud to be collaborating with one of our clients on in an effort to support businesses, their staff, and their customers during the pandemic. It’s aim is to help to protect staff, and provide confidence to customers. The name and identity (the logo represents several relevant parts of the app’s […]
What have you been up to whilst staying home?
We’re almost into May and while this year has been unlike any other, here at Wonderstuff, we are still focussed on helping owners use their brand, and design, to keep moving forward. We’re well into Spring and we’re so pleased that we’ve been blessed with beautiful weather up to now. What have you been doing […]
Moving forward.
We’re almost into May and while this year has been unlike any other, here at Wonderstuff, we are still focussed on helping owners use their brand, and design, to keep moving forward. Regardless of timing, grant funding towards the work you need for your business is always beneficial. We’ve worked with several clients this year, […]
Managing Your Brand.
As new ways to work have engulfed the past weeks, those of you who manage a team, communications and your brand assets, might have found that not all your assets can be easily found. As part of our brand identity projects, we often deliver brand guidelines, and have delivered these as an online resource for […]
