Brand Inventions
Brand Inventions is a creative agency producing visual identity and design for digital, print and web-based applications.
The company provides graphic design, branding and re-branding services for individuals and businesses of all kinds.
Brand Inventions hosts and routinely services the websites that it designs. Additionally, the company looks after matters of intellectual property for many of its clients including the application and maintenance of trademarks and patents in the UK and abroad.
The importance of your brand and the effective communication of the values and attributes of your company to your customers is of paramount importance. It is all too often overlooked. Brand Inventions is ready to work with you to ensure that your brand is working coherently and productively for your business.
Ben Galloway, (founder of Brand Inventions) says:
In 2012, I decided to call our first blog ‘Design Matters’ – partly because it was to focus on a wide range of design related subjects, and secondly, quite simply because design matters, (it clearly does)! Anyone unconvinced of this immutable fact is missing a trick and a business that is not entirely dialed into the received wisdom, is surely under achieving.
We pride ourselves on our ability to achieve the specific objectives set by our clients and we like to deliver on brief and on time! Our basic ethos, namely that design should be simple and elegant if it is to communicate effectively, is at the heart of everything we do. We are committed to producing original and affordable design so that companies and individuals can achieve memorable and effective market awareness for their products and services.
Ben Galloway
Ben is an award-winning designer and experienced creative professional. He has worked in the creative design sector for over twenty five years.
Grandson of the portrait painter Vincent Galloway, Ben was educated at Ampleforth College and was awarded a B.A. Hons (2.I) degree in Three Dimensional Design from the Surrey Institute of Art & Design in 1990. He founded Brand Inventions in 2008 to focus on his first love, graphic design. He is known for his ability to listen carefully to the requirements of every client and skilled at communicating a company’s attributes and values through visual media. He is passionately creative and focused on delivering design which is dynamic, productive, and above all, coherent. Ben lives and works in North Yorkshire.
Lindsey Woods, (formerly Head of Operations, Employment Lawyers Association) says:
Ben Galloway is a highly talented graphic designer. He listens carefully to the brief and can be relied upon to translate it accurately and intelligently into a design concept with a meticulous attention to detail. His designs are bold and professional. Ben is a pleasure to work with, approaching his work with confidence and humour. He is flexible in his approach and always willing to take on or try out others’ ideas with enthusiasm.
Key partnerships
Brand Inventions currently works with a number of creatives and developers. It has forged key partnerships with several individuals and companies especially in the North of England where costs are competitive. These relationships, and the core skills which the agency is able to call upon, means that the company is able to offer a wide range of services which include: branding; design for print; web design; photography; videography; custom app development and marketing.
The company is particularly fortunate that designer and developer, Lauren Cooper, has been providing development and support to Brand Inventions for the last few years. Lauren, (formerly lead designer for The Northern Foundry Co. in Hull), is a highly skilled freelancer. She develops and maintains all websites designed and hosted by Brand Inventions and Ben freely admits that: the company would be nothing without her!
On design and the role of the designer
Ben says:
As a creative design company we strive to be inventive, our company is called Brand Inventions after all. But design isn’t always about trying to conjure up something new. By definition, the creative process demands invention, but invariably it has more to do with reacting to what is already there. The broad brushmarks of language or style have often been established, the colours and hues are usually present, they simply require orchestration. The craft of the designer is akin to that of the goldsmith, rarely the alchemist.
The single most important thing a designer does is listen to their client. A designer cannot create a coherent message about the values a company wishes to project if they are uncertain as to what they are. The design process starts here, at the briefing stage. A good designer will be skilled at interpreting the brief and translating it successfully, but equally, a good client will be able to articulate the values and associations they wish to have expressed. Good design is about effective communication.
A dynamic relationship between client and designer, which fosters a process of critical thinking and debate, is paramount. Good design is also about balance. It isn’t about the designer getting their own way, nor is it about him slavishly bringing about the ideas of others. A designer is more than just a craftsman, he has to be an artist too. His vision and intuition are fundamental to the creative process. He listens, but then he must react. A designer must deliver on brief and achieve specific client objectives, but he is also responsible for creating something original, something both he and his industry can be proud of, something that bears scrutiny in its own right – in short, something that ‘stands up’. I suppose in this sense a designer can be described as an inventor. Artist, craftsman, inventor? A good designer needs to be all three!
Brand Inventions
Brand Inventions is a creative agency producing visual identity and design for digital, print and web-based applications.
The company provides graphic design, branding and re-branding services for individuals and businesses of all kinds.
Brand Inventions hosts and routinely services the websites that it designs. Additionally, the company looks after matters of intellectual property for many of its clients including the application and maintenance of trademarks and patents in the UK and abroad.
The importance of your brand and the effective communication of the values and attributes of your company to your customers is of paramount importance. It is all too often overlooked. Brand Inventions is ready to work with you to ensure that your brand is working coherently and productively for your business.
Ben Galloway, (founder of Brand Inventions) says:
In 2012, I decided to call our first blog ‘Design Matters’ – partly because it was to focus on a wide range of design related subjects, and secondly, quite simply because design matters, (it clearly does)! Anyone unconvinced of this immutable fact is missing a trick and a business that is not entirely dialed into the received wisdom, is surely under achieving.
We pride ourselves on our ability to achieve the specific objectives set by our clients and we like to deliver on brief and on time! Our basic ethos, namely that design should be simple and elegant if it is to communicate effectively, is at the heart of everything we do. We are committed to producing original and affordable design so that companies and individuals can achieve memorable and effective market awareness for their products and services.
Ben Galloway
Ben is an award-winning designer and experienced creative professional. He has worked in the creative design sector for over twenty five years.
Grandson of the portrait painter Vincent Galloway, Ben was educated at Ampleforth College and was awarded a B.A. Hons (2.I) degree in Three Dimensional Design from the Surrey Institute of Art & Design in 1990. He founded Brand Inventions in 2008 to focus on his first love, graphic design. He is known for his ability to listen carefully to the requirements of every client and skilled at communicating a company’s attributes and values through visual media. He is passionately creative and focused on delivering design which is dynamic, productive, and above all, coherent. Ben lives and works in North Yorkshire.
Lindsey Woods, (formerly Head of Operations, Employment Lawyers Association) says:
Ben Galloway is a highly talented graphic designer. He listens carefully to the brief and can be relied upon to translate it accurately and intelligently into a design concept with a meticulous attention to detail. His designs are bold and professional. Ben is a pleasure to work with, approaching his work with confidence and humour. He is flexible in his approach and always willing to take on or try out others’ ideas with enthusiasm.
Key partnerships
Brand Inventions currently works with a number of creatives and developers. It has forged key partnerships with several individuals and companies especially in the North of England where costs are competitive. These relationships, and the core skills which the agency is able to call upon, means that the company is able to offer a wide range of services which include: branding; design for print; web design; photography; videography; custom app development and marketing.
The company is particularly fortunate that designer and developer, Lauren Cooper, has been providing development and support to Brand Inventions for the last few years. Lauren, (formerly lead designer for The Northern Foundry Co. in Hull), is a highly skilled freelancer. She develops and maintains all websites designed and hosted by Brand Inventions and Ben freely admits that: the company would be nothing without her!
On design and the role of the designer
Ben says:
As a creative design company we strive to be inventive, our company is called Brand Inventions after all. But design isn’t always about trying to conjure up something new. By definition, the creative process demands invention, but invariably it has more to do with reacting to what is already there. The broad brushmarks of language or style have often been established, the colours and hues are usually present, they simply require orchestration. The craft of the designer is akin to that of the goldsmith, rarely the alchemist.
The single most important thing a designer does is listen to their client. A designer cannot create a coherent message about the values a company wishes to project if they are uncertain as to what they are. The design process starts here, at the briefing stage. A good designer will be skilled at interpreting the brief and translating it successfully, but equally, a good client will be able to articulate the values and associations they wish to have expressed. Good design is about effective communication.
A dynamic relationship between client and designer, which fosters a process of critical thinking and debate, is paramount. Good design is also about balance. It isn’t about the designer getting their own way, nor is it about him slavishly bringing about the ideas of others. A designer is more than just a craftsman, he has to be an artist too. His vision and intuition are fundamental to the creative process. He listens, but then he must react. A designer must deliver on brief and achieve specific client objectives, but he is also responsible for creating something original, something both he and his industry can be proud of, something that bears scrutiny in its own right – in short, something that ‘stands up’. I suppose in this sense a designer can be described as an inventor. Artist, craftsman, inventor? A good designer needs to be all three!