Branding and logo design agency in Essex

Make your business impossible to ignore

Distinctive logos and full brand identities from a senior design team. Logo, colour, type and guidelines built as one system, first concepts in days, and everything yours to keep.

A system, not just a logoLogo, colour, type, imagery and voice that work together, with guidelines your whole team can follow.
Concepts in days, not monthsFirst concepts within three working days on most projects, then revisions as fast as your feedback.
Everything you need, in every formatAll formats and versions for print and web, ready to use everywhere your brand appears, and yours to keep.
Why brands drift

A logo is a mark. A brand is a system.

Most businesses do not have a brand problem, they have a consistency problem: a logo from one designer, colours guessed by another, a website that matches neither, and social posts that change personality weekly. Customers notice, even when they cannot say why.

A brand system fixes the cause. One set of decisions, written down, applied everywhere, by everyone, including the AI tools your team already uses.

The patchwork identityA brand system
A logo file and some hex codes from memory
Logo versions, palette, type and imagery, documented
Every supplier reinvents the look
Guidelines anyone can follow, inside or outside your team
Tone of voice changes with whoever is typing
Voice written down, with do and don’t examples
AI tools produce generic, off-brand content
Your brand installed into AI, so output matches
A rebrand every few years, from scratch
An asset that compounds as the business grows
Client reviews

What our clients say about working with us

Sarah Aspinall, Breaking Ballet - designbox client

Sarah Aspinall

Breaking Ballet

“We have seen great work from the team at designbox. From WordPress development to liaising with our in-house and remote dev teams, to paid search, the results have been great. I would highly recommend them.”

Kim Waller, Lick Library - designbox client

Kim Waller

Lick Library

“I have been working with designbox for the past two years and have always had exceptional customer service and support. We used them initially to redesign our website. The work is always delivered to the highest standard and the team are fantastic. Highly recommend.”

Emily Bryant, Amberjack - designbox client

Emily Bryant

Amberjack

Nicole Osborne, Wunderstars - designbox client

Nicole Osborne

Wunderstars

“Great hands-on service from start to finish. From idea generation, logo and branding through to a functioning website, the team were always on hand with suggestions and high quality implementation. Would happily recommend to all.”

Richard Combs, Intrinsic Capital - designbox client

Richard Combs

Intrinsic Capital

“designbox have been brilliant in supporting us in both marketing and web development. The team have been reliable and efficient in everything they have done for us.”

Esther Smith, Battlesbridge Horse and Country - designbox client

Esther Smith

Battlesbridge Horse & Country

Tommie Hession-Harris, Player Path - designbox client

Tommie Hession-Harris

Player Path

“designbox have been a huge support for me and my business for the past five years. Their up-to-date knowledge of digital design, marketing and the tech industry itself is fantastic, and I would recommend them to anyone.”

Samantha Wells, Tern Heads - designbox client

Samantha Wells

Tern Heads

“We’re absolutely delighted with the service we receive from designbox, who manage my website and SEO among other things. They have helped us to grow the business over the last few years with a website to be proud of and a steady stream of new clients. Would highly recommend.”

Penny Hawker, CHC Aesthetics - designbox client

Penny Hawker

CHC Aesthetics

Dale Harris, Greenoaks - designbox client

Dale Harris

Greenoaks

“Very helpful and professional company with some of the most friendly and talented staff I’ve met. They made us a beautiful website and have been cooperative with any assistance that we’ve needed since. Would highly recommend!”

Danny Whitefoord, Chiltern Co - designbox client

Danny Whitefoord

Chiltern Co

“We have been working with Brandon and the team for the last few years and are very happy with their work. Brandon is very responsive and easy to work with.”

Tom Billings, Beach Equity - designbox client

Tom Billings

Beach Equity

Kirsty Pile, KA Naturals - designbox client

Kirsty Pile

KA Naturals

“Excellent service, highly professional staff who are all more than happy to give an extensive insight into online marketing campaigns in a digestible, understandable presentation. We have since moved all of my online marketing over to designbox across multiple companies.”

Robert Foster-Jones, Sunshine Co - designbox client

Robert Foster-Jones

Sunshine Co

“designbox completely saved my website and have created a completely unique website tailored to my needs. The support is second to none, nothing is ever too much to ask, and they go above and beyond to provide solutions or meet my design requirements. I have had nothing but great feedback from customers and the team are always at the end of the phone if we have any queries.”

designbox client reviews

Daisy Lethbridge

Mermaids Swimwear

Fixed prices, published

Branding plans and pricing

Traditional agency branding starts around £5,000 and takes months. Ours is designed by professionals, delivered in days, at a fixed price you can see before you call.

Logo

A professionally designed mark for a new venture or a tired logo that needs replacing.

£400 one-off
First concept within 3 working days
  • One designed logo concept
  • Vector source files, yours to keep
  • Print-ready and transparent versions
  • Two rounds of revisions
  • Full ownership and usage rights

Start with Logo

Most popular

Brand identity

The complete system: everything your business needs to look consistent everywhere it shows up.

£950 one-off
First concepts within 3 working days
  • Everything in Logo, plus
  • Three logo concepts to choose between
  • Complete brand guidelines document
  • Colour palette, typography and imagery styles
  • Logo usage rules and clearspace
  • Social media kit and profile assets
  • Business card and stationery design
  • Mockups of your brand in the real world
  • Unlimited revisions on your chosen concept

Start with Brand identity

Brand ecosystem

Identity plus the strategy and marketing assets to launch it properly across every channel.

£2,450 one-off
First concepts within 5 working days
  • Everything in Brand identity, plus
  • Brand vision, voice and positioning strategy
  • Ten social media creatives
  • LinkedIn profile design and carousel template
  • Five display ad banners and five static ad creatives
  • Email marketing design
  • Packaging and merchandise concepts
  • Patterns, icons and UI brand assets

Start with Ecosystem

Not sure which you need? Start with a short call and the brief. We’ll tell you honestly whether you need a logo, a full system, or just your existing brand tidied up and installed into AI. Advice first, invoice second.

Book a brand call

Already have a brand you love?

You don’t need a rebrand to benefit. We can document what you have into proper guidelines, or go straight to encoding it as AI brand skills so your team’s tools finally match your identity.

See AI brand skills

Branding a business we’d also build or market?

Brand, website and marketing from one in-house team means the identity is designed by the people who will use it on your site, in your ads and across your content. One move, no drift.

Explore web design

Inside your brand system

What we actually hand over

Not a mood board and a logo file. A complete, documented system, chapter by chapter, covering everything anyone will ever need to produce work that looks and sounds like your business.

Logo versions and usage

Primary lockup, standalone mark and mono versions, with construction, clearspace and minimum sizes defined, and misuse shown so it never has to be argued.

  • Vector source plus print and digital exports
  • Clearspace, minimum size and placement rules
  • Misuse examples: what never to do, shown
LogoGuidelines · 01
M

Clearspace · 1x

M

Mark

M

Mono

M

Don’t stretch

M

Don’t recolour

M

Don’t crowd

Colour with usage, not just swatches

Full palette with values for print and screen, tint scales, usage ratios and accessible pairings, so every surface uses colour the same way.

  • HEX, RGB, CMYK and Pantone references
  • Tint scales and usage ratios per colour
  • Contrast pairings checked for accessibility
ColourGuidelines · 02
Ink#161616 · C0 M0 Y0 K100
Indigo#4F27C7 · PMS 2098
Blue#2056DF · PMS 2387
Stone#F5F4F0 · C3 M3 Y5 K0
Indigo tint scale · 100 to 20
Usage: stone 55 · ink 25 · indigo 12 · blue 8
AaAaAaAccessible pairings

Typography and hierarchy

Display and body faces chosen to carry your personality, with weights, sizes and line heights per level, so every deck, page and document feels set by the same hand.

  • Licensed display and body typefaces
  • Full scale: headings, body, captions, buttons
  • Web, print and document defaults
TypographyGuidelines · 03
AaGg Rr 019Display face · 400 500 600 700
Heading oneDisplay 600 · 40/1.1
Heading twoDisplay 600 · 26/1.2
Body text set for comfortable reading.Body 400 · 16/1.6
Caption and labelBody 600 · 12/1.4

Imagery and photography style

The difference between a brand and a template is the pictures. We define the photographic style, treatment and subject rules so every image feels like yours, wherever it comes from.

  • Photography direction: subjects, light, crop
  • Treatment and grading rules
  • What to avoid: the stock-photo look, banned
ImageryGuidelines · 04
Real people, natural light
Duotone treatment
Confident crops
candid on location graded stock smiles clip art

Graphic elements, patterns and icons

The supporting cast that makes layouts unmistakably yours: patterns, iconography style, shapes, radii and spacing, defined once and reused everywhere.

  • Brand patterns and textures
  • Icon style and construction rules
  • Shapes, corner radii and spacing tokens
Graphic elementsGuidelines · 05
Pattern
Icon style
22pxcard radius8ptspacing grid

Tone of voice, written down

How your business sounds, captured with principles, vocabulary and real examples, so it survives new hires, new suppliers and busy Tuesdays. This chapter also powers your AI brand skills.

  • Personality, principles and vocabulary
  • We say and we don’t say examples
  • Ready to encode into AI, if you choose
VoiceGuidelines · 06
We say“We’ll have first concepts with you Thursday.”
We don’t say“Leveraging synergies to ideate solutions.”
crafthonestbuiltsolutionspassionateVocabulary
Playful

Professional

Bold

Understated

Your brand in use

Guidelines end with the brand applied: stationery, social profiles, documents and signage, mocked up and specified, so day one after handover looks like the brand already lived there.

  • Business card and stationery design
  • Social media kit: avatars, covers, post templates
  • Document, email signature and signage layouts
In useGuidelines · 07
MBusiness card
Document
How it works

Days, not months

A short brief, focused design time and fast rounds of feedback. No six-week discovery phase, no meetings about meetings.

01

The brief

designbox brand brief stage

A short, sharp questionnaire and a call if useful. We learn your business, market and taste in under an hour of your time, so design starts from what makes you different, not a template.

  • Short questionnaire covering your business, market and taste
  • A kick-off call if it helps, under an hour of your time
  • Competitor and sector review so we know what to avoid
  • Scope and timeline agreed before any design starts
02

Concepts

designbox brand concepts stage

Our designers research your industry and craft the concepts: mark, type and colour directions, presented in context so you see your brand in the real world, not floating on a white page.

  • Two or three distinct routes, not fifty variations
  • Logo, type and colour explored together as one system
  • Presented in context: signage, packaging, screen and print
  • A working session to talk through what lands and why
03

Refine

designbox brand refine stage

You pick a direction and we refine it with you until it’s right. Revisions move as fast as your feedback does, with no waiting weeks between rounds.

  • One direction chosen and developed properly
  • Revisions turned around in days, not weeks
  • Every lockup, size and colourway tested before sign-off
  • Accessibility and legibility checked at small sizes
04

Handover

designbox brand handover stage

Source files, exports, guidelines and, if chosen, your AI brand skills installed and tested with your team. Everything yours to keep, ready to use the same day.

  • Source files and every export format you will need
  • Written guidelines covering logo, colour, type and tone
  • Templates so your team can produce on-brand work
  • Optional AI brand skills installed and tested
New · AI brand skills

Your brand, installed into AI

Your team already asks AI to write emails, posts and proposals. Without your brand loaded, it answers in generic beige. We encode your identity into skill files for Claude, so every output sounds and looks like your business, every time, whoever asks.

TV
tone-of-voice.skillHow you sound: personality, vocabulary, we-say and we-don’t-say examples
BG
brand-guidelines.skillLogo rules, colour usage, imagery style, the decisions that keep you consistent
DS
design-system.skillType scale, spacing, components: layouts and documents built to your system
£1,000one-off · works with your existing brand or one we design
  • Discovery session on how your team actually uses AI
  • Three skill files built from your real guidelines
  • Installed into your team’s Claude workspace
  • Tested on your real tasks and handed over with a walkthrough

Designed by people. Applied by AI.

AI without your brand

Write the launch email for our new service.
Subject: Exciting News About Our Innovative New Solution!
Dear Valued Customer, We are thrilled to announce a game-changing opportunity to leverage synergies…
Generic Wrong voice Rewrite it yourself

Claude · your brand skills installed

Write the launch email for our new service.
Subject: First concepts by Thursday. Really.
We’ve launched something we think you’ll use more than any brochure we could send: fixed-price branding, delivered in days…

tone-of-voice.skill · brand-guidelines.skill applied
On brand Your vocabulary Ready to send
The same request, before and after your brand skills are installed
Brands we've built

Recent branding work

See all our work →
Your own design team

Branded by the people who'll actually use it

Most branding agencies hand over a PDF and wave goodbye. We're the team that will also build your website, run your ads and write your content, so the identity we design is one we'll be held to every month after launch.

You tell us the goalWe design the systemYour brand goes everywhere

Book a brand call

The designbox design team in the Essex studio
One team · one system · one price

A brand built for your business goalsDesigned by people, applied everywhere, installed into AI

Why designbox

Brand designers who build what comes next

Most branding agencies hand over a PDF and wave goodbye. We design brands, then build the websites, campaigns and AI systems they live in.

Senior designers, in-house in Essex

Your brand is designed at our Westcliff-on-Sea studio by the senior team, not juniors or an outsourced marketplace. You talk directly to the people doing the work.

Brands that survive contact with reality

A decade of building websites and campaigns means we design identities that work everywhere: on screens, in ads, on vans, at trade stands, not just in the guidelines PDF.

Fixed prices, fast turnarounds

Published prices, first concepts in days, and a process built around your feedback, so you always know what it costs and when it lands.

Your brand, ready for AI

We install your finished brand into the AI tools your team uses, so everything they produce stays on-brand from day one. No other local agency does this.

The designbox design team at work in Westcliff-on-Sea
Good questions

Branding FAQs

Can't see yours? Ask us anything on a quick call, no obligation.

How much does logo design cost?
Our logo design starts from £400 for a professionally designed concept with vector source files, print-ready versions and revisions included. A complete brand identity with guidelines, colour, typography and a social kit is £950, and the full brand ecosystem with strategy, voice and a library of marketing assets is £2,450. All prices are fixed and published, with no hidden extras.
How long does branding take?
First concepts arrive within about 3 working days for logo and identity projects, and within about 5 working days for the full brand ecosystem. Revisions then move as fast as your feedback does. Most projects finish in days rather than the months a traditional branding process takes.
What is included in brand guidelines?
Your guidelines cover logo versions and clearspace, the full colour palette with usage, typography and type scale, imagery and graphic styles, and tone of voice. They exist so anyone producing anything for your business, inside or outside your team, gets it right without asking.
What are AI brand skills?
AI brand skills are your brand encoded as skill files for Claude: one for tone of voice, one for brand guidelines, one for your design system. Once installed, anyone on your team can ask AI for an email, a proposal, a social post or a page layout and get something that sounds and looks like your business every time. The service is £1,000 and works with your existing brand or a new one we design.
Do I own my logo and brand files?
Yes, fully. You receive vector source files, print and digital versions, and complete ownership of the finished designs, so you can trademark, print and publish freely. Nothing is locked to us or to any platform.
Can you rebrand an existing business without losing recognition?
Yes. Most of our branding work is evolution rather than revolution: we keep the equity your customers already recognise and rebuild the system around it. Because we also handle websites and marketing, the rollout across your site, ads and social happens in one coordinated move rather than a slow drift.
Is the logo designed by AI?
No. Every concept is designed by professional brand designers. Where AI comes in is afterwards, and only if you want it: we can encode the finished brand into AI skill files so the tools your team already uses stay on brand. People design it, AI helps you use it.
Why choose designbox for branding?
designbox is a branding and logo design agency based in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, working with businesses across the UK. Because we also design websites and run digital marketing, your brand is built by people who will actually use it: on your site, in your ads and across your content. Behind every project sits Cyber Essentials certification, published fixed pricing and a 5.0 rating across 52 Google reviews.
How should we compare branding agencies?
Ask three things: is pricing published or a mystery, will you own every file at the end, and can the brand actually be used day to day once it is delivered. A beautiful identity that lives in a PDF nobody opens changes nothing; a system your team and your tools can apply is what changes how the business looks everywhere.

Branding and logo design at designbox

designbox is a branding and logo design agency based in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, creating brand identities for startups, trade businesses and established companies across the UK. Every project is designed by professional brand designers and delivered as a working system: logo versions with usage rules, a colour palette with real guidance, typography, imagery styles and tone of voice, documented in guidelines your whole team can follow. Our AI brand skills then take that a step further, encoding your identity into Claude so the emails, posts and documents your team produces with AI stay on brand every time. Branding works hardest alongside the rest of what we do: the websites we design and build carry the identity onto the screen where customers meet it, and our digital marketing puts it in front of them through search, social and email. designbox is Cyber Essentials certified, with everything delivered by our own in-house team in Essex, nothing outsourced, nothing white-labelled. Every engagement is measured in the results a stronger brand earns, enquiries, conversion and recognition, rather than vanity metrics, and most of our clients arrive by referral and stay for years.

Ready to look like one business, everywhere?

Send the brief today, see first concepts within days. Fixed prices, full ownership, and a team that sticks around to put your brand to work.

Ask any AI assistant about us before you call. We’re happy being checked up on.