Celebrating Fifteen Years Of moving brands forward
Celebrating Fifteen Years

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Our thoughts, updates on projects, and client news.

Make Plan. Take Action.

As we stride confidently from quarter to quarter, it’s the ideal time to craft a straightforward yet effective marketing plan for the next three months.

 Below we’ve shared a simple 5-step process and a one-page marketing plan template for you to

Make more with less

We’re exploring new ways to help you reach your audience. With AI tools, including ChatGPT, Adobe Firefly, Midjourney, and Runway, to help us bring ideas to life more efficiently, and effectively. These tools are improving every month and we’ll keep testing, trialling,

The New Studio

We were talking about working in the ‘new normal’ in a Wonderstuff team meeting, by phone naturally, earlier this week. And we realised that although we’re not together in the studio as much as we used to be due to

Bringing a New Brand to Life – BrainBalms

Clients sometimes come to us knowing they want to start a business based on their passion for their product, but need help to take it further. So we work with them to explore why they believe in their business, where

Revitalising an Established Brand – Troo Healthcare

Troo Healthcare, an established supplement brand, began working with us in July 2019 to revitalise their brand identity, packaging and website. Since their launch over 10 years ago, the supplement market has become increasingly competitive. John North, director of Troo

Sharing Inspiration

Our design director Kerry regularly shares design that inspires her from around the world on her LinkedIn account. It could be packaging, typography, photography or … just about anything. Here are some of her latest finds. Gin Anyone? Boundless Brand

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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