Introducing Grain Creative & its services at the talk with students Last week, I was invited to give a talk on social media and public relations for students at Kaplan International College in Holborn, London. The purpose of the talk was to introduce them to the creative industry in London and inspire them to become … Read more

Is your business is doing really well – are your products and services having a positive return on investment? Are you ready to take your venture to the next level, yet you are unsure which channels to promote it on and how to integrate all of them and maximise the effect? Here are some tips. … Read more

Our daughter Nellie seems to share her dad’s love for signage. I am not sure whether Nellie’s Club was invented to make a sign or whether the sign was the obvious next step to tell the world about her newly formed club. Let’s see who joins and whether they want to make poshen, potions, hunt … Read more

Started in 2002 as a design agency with a three dimensional focus, Grain has expanded to a full-service branding agency, focusing strongly on brand strategy, identity, name generation, websites, ecommerce, social media, packaging, environments, campaigns and communications. In 13 years, Grain has grown in both scope and scale. Our work has become more strategic, providing a … Read more

There have been four celestial events today: the solar eclipse, spring equinox, a supermoon, and the online launch of new childrenswear brand Petit Tribe! Petit Tribe is a new luxury childrenswear brand unlike any other, fusing traditional African inspiration with contemporary design. A dream come true Grain has been working with Petit Tribe from the … Read more

After completing the brand identity for this new contemporary fashion jewellery brand, we are delighted to announce the ecommerce website launch for Kaytie Wu. The website is for retail and trade customers with a special trade login to see wholesale prices. Pretty awesome!  

Kent at the Selfie Station, where every guest could take as many pictures as they wanted. Facebook’s B2B offer has shifted its focus from corporations to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) as their main market this year. Facebook held its first-ever UK event aimed at the business backbone of the country: how Facebook can help … Read more

The client: Newland College in Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire a new independent co-ed secondary school teaching the International Baccalaureate. Grain has been working with Newland College for close to a year on creating the brand from scratch and on creating a dialogue with local parents. Having held several successful Open Days throughout last year supported by … Read more

Yes, we are biased of course, we are working in design but isn’t design simply fantastic. On the same day we design and develop digital interfaces for our clients to create fantastic and relevant content for their websites and a little later in the day we go to our client ICS International Community School and … Read more

…not only an important North American holiday but a good time to take a moment and look back at the past year. For Grain, 2014 has been incredible. It has been a year of change for us, with Daisy leaving our interior design team after four and a half years (sniff!) and two of our … Read more

Grain Creative’s senior designer Juli Ferguson, Elizabeth Emanuel, project manager Anna Gilson and PR Executive Kent Le at the fashion designer’s press launch in November 2014. Are you an aspiring fashion entrepreneur? Then you will love this read. Developing the branding for world-renowned fashion designer Elizabeth Emanuel is a real pleasure for us. Here are … Read more

We are excited to announce our partnership with new fashion jewellery brand Kaytie Wu. We have already developed the brand identity and are now working on the design and development of the ecommerce website launching in two months’ time!  

I am now one month in as a designer at Grain. Previously I was a designer at Champneys Health Spa and before that I worked for myself, as a partner in small T-shirt printing company. Now reflecting back on this journey I can say that I spent too long working away from other creatives and … Read more

For developers, like for kids, a sandbox is a safe place to play around and try new things. We have recently used our website as our own sandbox. You may remember our newsletter in May which announced the new Grain website. It was a major redesign after the last version of the site which we … Read more