About

Design

Design Group UK Creative Design Teams feature a wealth of talented designers, focused by product channel and market segment with an extensive range of skills including Illustration, Graphic Design, Fashion, Photography, Animation and Contemporary Textiles.

We have some of the country’s top design graduates joining us each year through our university collaboration programme fuelling a thriving studio culture of enthusiastic new talent combined with seasoned experience also drawn from related creative industries

Commercial Focus

Our Creatives inspire, innovate and create great design on a daily basis all underpinned by focused commercial insight and concise market knowledge.

UK Creative teams work globally with other Group colleagues worldwide to share comprehensive design and product libraries accessing localised innovation and trends. Our Trend Teams develop directional, thought-provoking, bespoke capsule trends, in line with trend forecasting partners, supported by extensive market research and inspirational industry show visits.

Breadth of Creative Skills

We combine product innovation with a variety of design disciplines, to launch fine-tuned commercial themes, with an invitation to cross boundaries and explore capabilities for the appropriate price point and product positioning.

exceptional design application and a detailed understanding of each customer to deliver product accuracy while always looking ahead. We work with style guides, sympathetically yet creatively, and confidently challenge and question to present best-selling product outcomes

The breadth of knowledge and creative skills gives Design Group its unique position within the UK Christmas, Everyday Gifting, Stationery and Creative Play markets.

Fully Connected Service

Working closely with our Commercial and Manufacturing Teams we develop high quality design for a wide variety of product formats, across all specifications and to suit each of our customer’s unique requirements.

Studio capabilities allow us to evolve, engineer and develop bespoke product concepts, which are delivered via digital visualisation or handmade prototype sampling. We innovate packaging solutions, offer brand identity concepts and support with marketing communication and point of sale material to bring products to market with maximum impact.