Design Challenge Success!
Annual Design Challenge Our Design Director has successfully completed a design challenge called 36 Days of Type. The typographic challenge is set via social media and invites designers, creators, illustrators and graphic artists to design 1 letter per day for 36 days, showing the endless creative possibilities on how type can be expressed. This is […]
How can we help you right now?
We might be in lockdown, but we can still create opportunities for each other. I started Wonderstuff 11 years ago (this month) to add value for business owners, through brand and design. We are all facing our own challenges right now, but my vision hasn’t changed. Rather than sit and wait for ‘business as usual’ I’m exploring, and […]
Stay Positive
I’m sending positive vibes! We’re into our second week of working from home and are making sure we stay positive. What are you doing to stay positive? I’ll be keeping myself inspired creatively by looking at lots of other studios amazing work and reading about what they are creating, as well as trying to dig […]
Inspiring Actions in Changed Times
It’s an unprecedented time of change, and businesses are doing amazing things. Examples we’ve spotted* in the food and drink sector are breweries and spirits manufacturers switching production to make hand sanitiser, including many UK-based companies. These businesses are going above and beyond to respond to this urgent need, often donating their sanitiser free to local […]
Positivity!
Today’s blog post is all about positivity! Make Use. Use every opportunity. Everything that goes well. Use it. Everything that doesn’t work out. Use it. It’s hard to be on top of your game every day – so it’s important you surround yourself with others that will help you be the best you can be. […]
Black Storm Brewery Design Collaboration
Black Storm Brewery has worked with brand and design agency Wonderstuff, independent illustrators and craft breweries from around the country to create its 12 Beers range. Each limited edition brew comes in a distinctive can reflecting its ingredients, flavours or where it was made. Paul Hughes, founder of Black Storm Brewery said: “Black Storm beers […]
Kerry’s Top Picks
Given my background in teaching, I have a love for sharing, supporting and inspiring others around me. From the beginning of 2020 I’ve challenged myself to share incredible creative work on my LinkedIn daily that has particularly caught my eye, and what will inspire my future creative work. Therefore I thought it may be beneficial […]
Welcome to our New Design Director
Kerry Neesam has joined our team as design director. Kerry graduated from Teesside University with a first class honours degree in graphic design in 2013. She worked in various agencies in the north east before moving to London to join an agency working with global brands where she was promoted to senior designer. Kerry then […]
Work featured on CreativePool
It’s always nice to see our work featured. This time we’re featured on global design site CreativePool, alongside agencies I’ve respected and admired for years, including Mother, B&B studio, Coley Porter Bell and more. The project featured is the rebranding of Newcastle based world street food retailer Canaca. You can see us on CreativePool here Or read more about […]
Celebrating the Launch of Brain Balms
Wonderstuff began working with Nicolette Perry in 2017 to explore the potential and position of her natural and organic, scientifically based, products. We developed names for the business to provide Nicolette with a platform to develop her range, in line with her goals. Nicolette, a Pharmacognosist, Education, and Science Director, specialising in aromatic plants for […]
Building a Brand to Be Proud of
Recently we were engaged to create a new brand and identity for a private label supplements brand. Part of the brief was to create an attractive brand which could target start-ups and fully fledged companies alike. After plenty of research, long conversations and iterations; Nutribl was created. A clean, ownable brand with flair. Creating the […]
Confidence
We’ve invested time this week with an organisation in Manchester who are about to rebrand and had bad experiences in the past working with a designer. The last thing we wanted to do was work with them – and them be disappointed (again). So we talked. About why they felt let down in their previous […]
November Dribble Meetup
Wonderstuff founder Paul Alderson is speaking at the November @Dribbble meet-up on Friday, 1 November at Star & Shadow Cinema. Talking about design as a business, motivation, risks and (his) mistakes! http://nvite.co/rxv9mm
Make significant impact.
Make significant impact. Last week we spoke to the owner of a successful business. The conversation started with an enquiry about updating their website. It moved to exploring the goals of the business with regard to their audience and their abilities. The final conversation helped them realise that they – as the owner – needed […]
The £1 Million Cookie
Can you even imagine it. I can. Why? I was talking this week about long term vision and the example I used was this; If the goal is to sell £1 million of cookies, you can create a brand that sells 1 million, £1 cookies. Or you create a brand that sells 1, £1 million […]
Time is easy. Attention is hard.
Time is easy. Attention is hard. Don’t ask how your new brand agency how long the project will take. Instead, start by considering how much attention you will assign to the project. Having worked with many business owners of the last ten years, and being asked this very question – I can honestly say that […]
