That's Brave is the design agency for challenger brands.

Design Agency in Colchester

That’s Brave is a 360˚, media neutral, full service design agency in the Colchester region.

Sounds cool huh, but what it really means is that we just get stuff done, all types of design stuff.

You might be a challenger brand or startup looking to tell your unique story in a brave way, threatening the market share of the big boys, or you could be that industry leader who wants to keep thinking differently. Wherever your journey, we’ll help you be yourself and resist any temptation to follow the crowd.

Our brave manner hurtles beyond the obvious, opening the door to a far more creative expression that is unique to you and your business. We’ve been doing it for a while now and have built up a fair amount of experience working with all types of corporate business and consumer clients.

Think of That’s Brave as a design agency in Colchester with New York attitude (Saying you’re a London design agency in the country is so last year) and some of us have worked there so it counts, OK! No matter if your product or service needs to sell locally throughout Colchester, nationally or even across the globe, we have the experience to help you market it successfully.

Being a full-service design agency with tried and trusted associates means you get an agile team of specialists to support you, whilst keeping a cohesive core where we all know each other’s roles and deliver award-winning creative work. You may just need a bit of support for your own in-house design team or the peace of mind to leave you brand in the capable hands of a local design agency in Colchester, and the way we work means we’re flexible to however you need us.

Take a look at some of our work below or get in touch for more proof about how we’re the perfect design agency in Colchester to help with your creative projects. Or email us at hello@thatsbrave.co.uk and one of the team can pop over to your office, or you’re more than welcome to visit the studio.

Technology Branding Agency

Dukosi

Tackling climate change, one cell at a time

All, Brand Strategy, Illustration, Logo, Visual ID, Web

Loggique

Empowering imagination through scent

All, Logo, Packaging, Visual ID

George Bensley

A little part of Great Britain in Ho Chi Minh City

All, Brand Strategy, Logo, Packaging, Visual ID, Web

Web Connectivity

Techies changing minds in a quill pen industry

All, Brand Strategy, Illustration, Logo, Visual ID, Web

let's talk

if you’ve got a project in mind or want to talk on how we can bring clarity to your business just call or send us a message

As an agency we provide a wide range of brand, marketing and creative services. Our team are experts and we enjoy supporting in house marketing teams as much as we do working directly with business leaders and stakeholders. Some of the creative design & marketing solutions we support clients with are:

Copyrighting + Tone

Website design + development

Video + animation

Creative campaigns

Or, if you need more help bringing clarity to your brand or need to say it in a different way, read on for how we can help with:

Brand Strategy

Logo + Visual Identity

so who are we?

We’re a group of courageous rapscallions, from brand strategists to project managers, designers, copywriters, developers, the list goes on. For the last 10 years we’ve operated with a compact core team, leaning on our extended network of talented specialists to support projects and clients whenever needed, giving us the ability to react like an agile shoal of herring rather than a cumbersome blue whale. Our ideas aren’t forced in any particular direction finding solutions to your problems, not problems for our solutions. Working together to solve things in a way that is commercially best for you and the business. Let’s call it 360˚ thinking.

our three brand beliefs

These core ‘brand beliefs’ greatly influence our way of working, not only in terms of approach and process, but in spirit and ethos as well.

Brand first

heart

When a well conceived brand is placed at the heart of a business, the value goes way beyond marketing.

Inside out

sauce

Customers want a clear sense that an organisation is rooted in a greater purpose; what they stand for and that we share beliefs.

Others say

soap

Be more you and you won’t need to convince anyone. Stay true and your audience will be far more compelled to listen and believe.

 

how we do it

Our process allows us to get to the heart of a brand, find the distinctive and compelling truth of it, craft the story, and bring it to life.

1.

Discover

Reality check

Discover business insights, market conditions, and perspectives.

You ask yourself some tough questions in business, but you need an agency who asks tougher. Why do you exist? Who for? Why should they care? And that’s just for starters.

Through an in-depth discovery process we aim to uncover the truth – inside and out. This insight gathering stage will consider internal and external perspectives, look at the business, market conditions, competitor propositions and the wider operating landscape.

2.

Define

All about you

Define your core brand idea.

Brave might be the way we ask challenging questions, or equally it’s the way we’re prepared to look at different avenues to find a unique position in your marketplace.

Luck isn’t a good brand strategy, but building a strategy around who you truly are, is. Once we’ve discovered who you truly are and found the core values of your brand, everything in the future will be based on a solid foundation that you’ll come back to, time and time again.

3.

Express

Looking good

Express the visual identity.

Have you ever thanked your partner when they’ve bought you a lovely new outfit? They know your personal brand and what you stand for.

It’s the same when branding your company, and why it’s important that people know who you are on the inside, so they can buy into you. Once you understand the internal brand, deciding how to dress the outside is far simpler. We won’t help you pick a lovely new frock though, but are here to dress you with a new logo, a new colour palette, bold typography or whole visual ID wrapped up in a brand book.

4.

Activate

Get out there

Taking the new brand to market.

The brand strategy should direct all marketing planning and activity - steering the creation of all new marketing assets and communications, fulfilling the ambitions for the next chapter of the business and establishing its place in the market.

We always welcome the opportunity to support the shaping of a marketing ‘roadmap’ and any planning, as well as taking the brand through to the creation of new assets. However, the scope and scale of this phase cannot be fully defined until the first three phases begin to take shape.

feeling curious?

for strategy, positioning or a new creative direction, get in touch and let's make something great happen.

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