Design as a means

When it comes to developing brands, we regard design as a means as well as an end.

It’s a very different way of working from the traditional, interview-driven approach so popular with most consultants. It sets us apart from many design companies.

We use visual material to raise issues and find solutions, because in most organisations people are drowning in words – many of them tired, abstract, meaningless.

Pictures, by contrast, are both immediate and tangible. On their own or combined with a few, well-chosen words, they have the power to make people sit up and think.

We find that this approach is challenging, it’s fun and it works.


CLIENTS AND APPROACH

"35 has delivered on the toughest of briefs: safeguarding our huge heritage, whilst creating a practical and manageable brand that reflects the energy and diversity of the Wellcome Trust and its future needs.”

Jacqui Christian, Former Head of Corporate Communications, The Wellcome Trust