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About Brands Design.

Brands Design is a Manchester-based branding and digital growth agency helping ambitious businesses build distinctive brands, compelling digital experiences, and stronger market presence. Since 2009, we’ve worked with startups, growing businesses, and established organisations to turn ideas into brands that are clear, credible, and built for long-term growth.

Our expertise brings brand strategy, visual identity, logo design, web design, UI/UX, and digital marketing together under one roof. We combine strategic thinking with creative execution to develop cohesive brand experiences that connect with audiences and support measurable business growth.

From creating a distinctive brand identity to designing high-performing websites and digital experiences, we take a complete approach to every project. We focus on creating brands that stand out, communicate with confidence, and provide a strong foundation for future growth.

With years of industry experience, Brands Design delivers strategic, creative, and digital solutions for businesses across Manchester, the UK, and beyond.

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Our Story

We founded Brands Design in 2009 after seeing the same challenge repeatedly: businesses were investing heavily in marketing, yet their branding and websites weren’t delivering the impact they needed.

Great products and strong services were often held back by unclear brand positioning, inconsistent visual identities, and websites that looked good but failed to engage visitors or convert them into customers.

We believed there was a better approach—bringing strategy, creativity, and digital execution together as one connected process. That philosophy has shaped Brands Design from the very beginning.

Our goal has always been straightforward: create work that looks exceptional, communicates clearly, and delivers a genuine business purpose.

Today, we’ve partnered with hundreds of clients and delivered more than 1,000 projects across branding, web design, UI/UX, and digital experiences. While our team and capabilities have evolved over the years, our core approach remains unchanged.

We think beyond individual deliverables. We look at the bigger picture, understand where a business wants to go, and create brands and digital experiences designed to support meaningful, long-term growth.

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Our Values it’s Simple!

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Make an impact

Create meaningful work that delivers real value. We aim to make a measurable difference for our clients, our team, and the brands we help grow.

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Learn

Stay curious, keep evolving, and learn from every project. We encourage continuous growth, new ideas, and the freedom to develop your skills.

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Have fun

Great work happens when people enjoy what they do. We create a positive, collaborative environment where creativity and teamwork come naturally.

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Empathy

We listen, understand, and value different perspectives. By putting people first, we build stronger teams, better relationships, and more meaningful experiences.

Some clients feedbacks

Higher Ground was recommended to us by our SEO expert. They provided a friendly service, communicated in laymen’s terms, offered helpful and creative advice and even gave us training on editing, which was a new skill for us. We’re excited to see what our new website will bring. Thank you! Brent and Debra, Brent Forbes Chartered Surveyors.

Debra
Director of Human Resources.

We hired Higher Ground to design and develop several landing pages for FitnessGenes. Their expertise in crafting creative and engaging and landing pages was outstanding. Not only did they bring fresh ideas to the design team, but they also focused on user experience and data-driven optimisations, significantly boosting our conversion rates. I highly recommend Higher Ground for anyone looking to elevate their web presence and maximise conversions!

Kate Smith
Client Success Manager

Working with Rob has helped us to obtain a much deeper understanding of how to move forward with our website by improving user experience. Hi insight and knowledge about search engine optimisation has helped us to increase the amount of relevant traffic that we receive. The results we've seen in just a short period of time have been great. Would definitely recommend Rob to other businesses.

Lentils and Lather
Director of Sales Operations

How we got here

logo design manchester

2014

Where the idea come up of Lexend 🙂

2015

Launched our first business that can be created in minutes, build meaningful relationships.

2016

Opened our new office in Toronto, CA

2019

Moved to Silicon Valley whereas now we can focus on building out to help our employees.

2020

Opened a new office in London, UK.

Today

Top-rated software solution for service suppliers.

We’re looking for people who share our vision!

Have what it takes to be one of us.

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