Brand Development & Identity Design
Client: tadea
tadea approached Better to design and develop a new brand identity, brand language and positioning to support the growth and development of the organisation. Through a series of strategic brand workshops with the tadea team at every level,…
Bespoke Event Invitation and Direct Mail Campaign
Client: Anabas
Sometimes a project is presented to us and literally everyone wants to work on it. The team at Anabas challenged our creative team to formulate an idea for a unique event invitation. The brief was to make it unforgettable, fun and above all…
Client: Artsbank
When a brand is so closely associated with a landmark building (It used to be the old HSBC Bank) it has to simply convey what it intends to be. Since opening its doors Better has shaped the way the brand speaks to its audience through its…
Website Design & Development including Bespoke Vebra Integration
Client: GSC Grays
As part of the brand development for GSC Grays, Better were selected to design and development the new bespoke content managed website for the business. The website, built on a heavily customised version of Wordpress, provided the GSC Grays team…
Brand Development and Identity Design
Client: GSC Grays
GSC Chartered Surveyors, a successful rural practice and estate agency business and Gray’s Chartered Surveyors, announced a merger in September. The merger required a new brand to support the new business. As part of the brand development,…
Website Design, Development & Social Media
Client: Philippa Gregory
The team at Better were challenge by Philippa Gregory to redesign and develop the existing website, including a new design style, for the launch of the most recent novels ‘Lady of the Rivers’ and ‘The Women of the Cousins War’. The website,…
Website Design and Development including Secure Members Area
Client: Business Enterprise Group NDI UK
NDI UK selected Better to redesign and redevelop the website for the organisation to support key growth plans and UK wide repositioning. The website included a full redesign plus redevelopment of the platform to support key functionality…
Ray Lonsdale – Artists Brochure Design and Print Production
Client: Artsbank Ray Lonsdale
ArtsBank approached Better to work on a promotional brochure selling the works and commissions of one of their highest profile artists – Ray Lonsdale. Ray’s work covers a broad range of sculpture that culminates in the superbly executed…
Annual Conference Brand, Web Development & Social Media Marketing
Client: UK & Ireland SAP User Group
The challenge each year is to develop a fresh brand style to set the foundation for all the online and offline marketing materials around the conference which include website, social media channels, exhibition materials, online advertising and…
Client: Freshfayre
The Freshfayre website project challenged the team at Better to provide a fresh new design and bespoke functionality elements. To support the company’s national service delivery and client base, the webiste not only need to fulfill the…
Website Design, Development & Social Media
Client: Alistair Griffin
Alistair Griffin, with support from his management team, challenged Better the design and develop an interactive hub on which to promote the Alistair’s new ‘brand’ style, tour and release of latest album release (including new single ‘Just…
Brochure Design and Print Production
Client: Anabas
In terms of design Peter and his team have lavished the brochure with some lovely finishes including clear foil blocking on the cover, screen printed transparencies and a selection of textured stocks for the internal pages. The original…
Website Design, Development & Social Media
Client: The Trout Hotel
The Trout Hotel in Cumbria approached Better to design and develop a new website to support the multi-million pound refurbishment of the hotel. The website dramatically improved the design and functionality of the previous website while…
Website Design, Development & Social Media Integration
Client: Institute of Digital Innovation
The focus of the new IDI website was to dramatically improve the design, functionality and visibility of the organisation. The webiste, based on a heavily customised version of Wordpress, has provided The IDI with a hub for developing their…
Death of Steel Exhibition Identity Design and Promotional Materials
Client: Artsbank
As part of Better’s ongoing work with ArtsBank we were asked to create an identity and style for the headline opening exhibition at the gallery launch. Focussing on the demise of the steel industry and drawing in works from local artists who had…
Bespoke Brochure Design and Print Production
Client: Lambton Estates
Lord Lambton not only owns the world famous Lambton Castle and Estate, he also owns a 16th century villa in Tuscany which he had challenged the Lambton Estates team to raise the profile of and provide potential visitors with a taster of what…
Student Union Internal Awareness Campaign
Client: Northumbria University Student's Union
The University of Northumbria Students’ Union (UNSU) once again approached Better to create a marketing campaign that bestowed the virtues of the hard work the Students’ Union does on behalf of it’s members. Better created a simple effective…
Financial Report Design & Print
Client: Five Lamps
Five Lamps approached Better with an idea that the yearly accounts document produced by the organisation lacked brand cohesiveness, Better set about creating a style for the document that made the wealth of content to be included easy to…
GameHorizon Conference Promotion
Client: Codeworks
Codeworks approached Better looking for a unique solution that would promote Gateshead as a hub for the games industry. As part of the GameHorizon Conference Better created a passport style booklet which promoted the wealth of talent already…
Conference Marketing, Web and Digital
Client: UK & Ireland SAP User Group
The 2011 UKISUG Conference is the Annual National event for the UK & Ireland SAP User Group which will take place at the NEC Hilton Birmingham Metropole Hotel. The challenge each year is to develop a fresh brand style to set the foundation…
Client: Philippa Gregory
Philippa Gregory and her team selected Better to redesign and redevelop the official Philippa Gregory website in 2010 in preparation for the launch of her new novel ‘The White Queen’. With an international audience, Philippa needed a website…
The Facilities Show Direct Mail Campaign
Client: Anabas
Anabas were looking for a unique way to engage both existing and potential clients at The Facilities Show in Birmingham, whilst also driving foot-fall to their stand. By using the offer of a chance to win two tickets to British Grand Prix,…
Client: Crafters Companion
Crafter’s Companion announced its partnership with the leading machine manufacturer Craftwell to bring the eCraft electronic cutting system to the UK. To support this, Crafters challenged the team to design and develop a new website showcasing…
Client: Anabas
Anabas approached Better with a desire to reach out to their team members, wanting to keep them up to date with the goings on in and around the offices they have around the country. The intention was to unify the staff into one community…
Brand Identity, Creative & Print
Client: BCT Aspire
Better were approached by BCT to help the organisation develop a new brand identity and supporting materials to support an ambitious growth plan for the company. It’s been a great (and rewarding) process working so closely with BCT’s…
Website Design and Development
Client: UK & Ireland SAP User Group
When UKISUG came to Better the brief was to look at the design and development of the existing website for the UK and Ireland User Group. The new website was also to set the foundation for the development of the UKISUG social media footprint…
Website Design, Blog Development & Social Media
Client: Crafters Companion
The new Sheena Douglass website was developed to integrate the existing blog, followers and active community while developing a powerful new digital foundation. New and bespoke features have been developed on top of the core Wordpress…
Client: Five Lamps
Five Lamps challenged Better to take the work that had been put into the Five Lamps web design and transform it into a printed solution for their Annual Report. The solution was to take subtle elements from the web design and transfer them to a…
Client: Artsbank
Since starting work with ArtsBank in early 2010 Better have provided support with a number of marketing solutions and ArtsBank branded material to be sold within the Gallery. Claendars featuring works chosen by the staff at ArtsBank were…
National Student Survey 2011 Marketing Campaign
Client: Northumbria University Student's Union
Northumbria University Students’ Union (UNSU) once again approached Better for a third year in a row to create a campaign to promote the participation of student’s in the National Student Survey. This years campaign focussed on showing…
Promotional Marketing Material
Client: Anabas
Working closely with the Anabas team we’ve helped to create a wide range of bespoke marketing material. These range from simple staff birthday cards to branded chocolate coins and inflatable “truffle” pigs that have been all been used to engage…
Promotional Pen Knife Direct Mail
Client: Anabas
Once again Anabas consulted Better on how best to ensure a new promotional item they had commissioned stayed on brand. Working closely with the Anabas team it was decided that a pen knife represented well the ability of Anabas to provide many…
Robin Dale Identity and Promotional materials
Client: Artsbank
A favorite exhibitor and featured artist of ArtsBank – Robin Dale had a unique collection of historical photographs of life in the North East and in particular around the Middlesbrough area. ArtsBank asked Better to create an identity and brand…
Corporate Stationery Design & Print
Client: Five Lamps
As part of Better’s ongoing work to bring together the Five Lamps brand under one cohesive style we were asked to create a new suite of corporate stationery. Everything from letterheads to business cards were designed and printed whilst we also…
WordPress Website Design, Development and Social Media Integration
Client: Anabas
To support the established Anabas corporate website, Better were selected to design and develop a wordpress based Blog website for the company’s MD, Mark Cooper. The custom theme was designed and developed to give consistency across the…
Folder Design & Print Production
Client: Anabas
Some say it’s the little touches that count. When Anabas approached us for a solution to making their tender documents feel much more than the average pile of A4 we devised a concept of using generic stationery binders with custom covers and…
Client: Anabas
Sometimes even the simplest of jobs can become fun and different. Anabas once again challenged Better to give their suite of business cards a little something extra. By combining the standard cards for employees with a set of cards for the…
Website Design, Development and Social Media Integration
Client: Five Lamps
Better were selected by Five Lamps after a competitive pitch process to provide the design and development of the organisations new website. The original project requirement included a completely new design style for the website, which was to…
Brand, Marketing & Web Campaign
Client: NWA Research
The ‘You Said’ campaign branding and supporting marketing materials were designed and developed in conjunction with the NWA team to support a Youth Campaign across Tees Valley schools. The project, which included focus group work involving a…
Brand Development & Identity Design
Client: FudgeFancies
Fudge Fancies challenged Better to create and design a new brand identity and supporting brand language around the new exciting start up business. The brand development process resulted in an identity which represented the company’s…
Client: Artsbank
At the opening of ArtsBank in 2010 and to coincide with the Death Of Steel Exhibition, Better worked alongside the ArtsBank team on a collaboration that brought artists and designers together to pass comment on the demise of the steel industry…
Client: Artsbank
On completion of the brand development work Artsbank selected Better to help develop the digital strategy and website for the new Gallery. The website, in addition to being a brochure for the Gallery, needed to become a platform for the Gallery…
Corporate Stationery Design and Print
Client: Artsbank
To support the launch of the new brand, Better have provided Artsbank with the design and print production of a suite of corporate stationary including letterheads, business cards, compliment slips and other branded…
Employee Handbook Design & Print
Client: Anabas
Furthering the the cohesiveness of the Anabas brand, Better created a cost effective solution to the Employee Handbook that focussed on retaining the visual of the brand whilst informing the employee of important information. The booklet…
Award Winning National Student Survey 2010 Marketing Campaign
Client: Northumbria University Student's Union
Following on from the success of the National Student Survey Campaign in 2009, The University of Northumbria Stidents’ Union (UNSU) again approached Better looking to once again improve the number of students participating in the annual survey….
Promotional Marketing Material Design and Print Production
Client: Five Lamps
Better have worked closely with Five Lamps since evolving the existing brand early in 2010. Since then we’ve produced materials such as promotional leaflets, invitations to exclusive events and a bespoke information pack to be handed out to Five…
Client: Onyx
Onyx Group aim to ensure that all businesses, no matter what their size or industry type, should be technology efficient, resilient and risk free. Better have worked with Onyx on a number of occasions creating unique marketing materials across a…
Youth Conference Identity, Website & Marketing Material
Client: Entrepreneur's Forum
The Entrepreneurs’ Forum annual Youth Summit is the largest of its kind in the North East of England. After a competitive pitch, Better were selected to design and launch a new identity for the 2010. The images below show some…
Monthly Student Union Magazine
Client: Northumbria University Student's Union
In 2009 the team at the University of Northumbria Students’ Union (UNSU) ask Better to provide a design and template for the newly relaunched monthly student magazine. We created the first year of issues before handing over the task to the…
Email Newsletter Campaign Design
Client: tadea
To support the launch of the new brand, Better have designed and developed a series of email campaign templates for internal and external email communication. The templates aim to further establish and enhance the new brand and digital…
Brand Communication, Creative, Print Production, and Marketing Support
Client: MPI Offshore
MPI came to Better as they were looking to revitalise their existing brand communications and to help strengthen its position as a world leader in the offshore wind installation sector. Better were responsible for planning and implementing an…
National Student Survey 2009 Marketing Campaign09
Client: Northumbria University Student's Union
The University of Northumbria Students’ Union (UNSU) take part in the promotion of the National Student Survey on behalf of Northumbria University in order to gain as much feedback as possible from final year students as they prepare to leave…
Client: Cornerstone
Cornerstone worked alongside the Better team to design and develop a brand which provided a new platform and positioning a leading provider of IT services across the UK. The Cornerstone has quickly been quickly established and supported the…
Brochure Creative Design and Print Production
Client: Business Enterprise Group Compete North East
Better was chosen to design and produce a new brochure to support the marketing and awareness of the Compete North East range of tailored service to assists the North East business community in competing for contract opportunities. The design of…
