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“Working with designdough on the creation of the Media Cymru brand and website was a dream experience. Despite having to work at speed to meet our tight deadlines, the talented designdough team really took the time to get to know us and our work thoroughly — that care, attention and personal touch carried through into the final product.”

“Our rebrand journey was exemplary and could serve as a type specimen for rebrand projects across any industry. Our new brand has helped us create a new brand personality, a new background for our business. We’ve been able to establish ourselves with a different marketplace and face off some aggressive competitor activity.

"Working with the designdough team really transformed what Discover Cymru is — not only did they help bring the brand to life, but they helped me crystalise what the business stood for and guide my thinking on where I could take it in the future. I've had brilliant feedback on the design work, and the new website is a joy to use compared to what I had cobbled together myself in the past!"

"The service designdough provided far exceeded our expectations. As a new company, BlueCube benefitted from their analytical approach in developing our branding. We were particularly impressed by their creativity. They listened carefully to our business idea and our personal ambitions, and they tailored their beautiful designs very closely to our needs. Working with designdough led to a branding strategy we are confident about, and their critical approach allowed BlueCube to mature as a company. Most of all it was great fun to work with the skilful, energetic designdough team."

"The final website result is breathtaking, and the development team were very conscientious, and worked quickly to launch the website to coincide with the Young Innovators Award announcement. This timing allowed me and Innovate UK’s PR team to direct any visitors to our new website and show off our incredible brand. The team’s dedication, passion, and expertise was apparent from the start, and I felt safe in entrusting my business idea and years of research to them. Their belief in Consumer Insights Lab was incredibly encouraging and reassuring. designdough continues to support us, and I will never be able to verbalise how deeply grateful I am for their confidence in me and Consumer Insights Lab."

“The designdough team delivered a fantastic national project in a professional manner. They were fun and flexible to work with and helped us make a challenging subject, simple. We hope to work with the team again on future projects”

"Through the immersive workshop experiences that designdough used as part of their process to get to know Valleys Kids, its past, present and future aspirations, we quickly understood the value and opportunity in a sympathetic rebrand hand-in-hand with the website development. From pitch to delivery, designdough listened carefully to the many voices of Valleys Kids (staff, volunteers, stakeholder, beneficiaries), which is apparent in the exceptional products they delivered. We are over the moon with our new brand and house style and the website, which was bespoke designed for us, provides us with so much autonomy that we can promote the multi-faceted work we do in both creative and direct ways, providing us with a vibrant, current, user-friendly platform to reach our audiences."

“Designdough are fantastic at what they do. Joe and his team are all very knowledgeable, creative and efficient. The process with them is always very simple and any new amendments and ideas we may have throughout the process are all catered to. The magazines have had brilliant customer feedback and we have been delighted with the results.”

"Everything was a joy! I loved talking about our ideas and felt we were all on the same page. You know that frustrating feeling when you’re trying to explain to someone what’s in your head and they just don’t get it? With designdough, we literally felt like they had opened our minds and read us like a book!"

"The initial workshop was helpful and deeper than I imagined — it felt like a coaching session to help me understand my business and brand better. During the creative process, team members were brilliant and patient, and the weekly project updates were over and above my expectations. I felt listened to, and like it was collaborative to get to the final design."

This is the first time I have been involved in a project like this. I found it very interesting and designdough were very responsive and receptive to our needs. The initial brainstorming workshop was a brilliant experience. The new website is going to make it much easier for us to communicate with key stakeholders, and so far everyone has been blown away! A big thank you to everyone involved for your support and understanding.

"I can't put into words how much this website is going to affect business. Everyone is super pleased with it. As a business, this website will highlight the estate as a brand, with the hotel's sub brands much more at the forefront. A HUGE thank you especially goes out to Sam, Ben, Adam, Jade and Joe for all of your hard work on this project. I'm so excited to continue working with designdough. Choosing an agency that we can work with long term was so important to me, and I think we have definitely found that with you all! Honestly, I don't think you could improve on anything we've experienced."

"We were given a clear project plan with timescales which kept us on track and I was kept up-to-date throughout the development process with weekly reports. The whole team were easy to work with, especially Sam. Everyone was communicative, quick to respond to queries and flexible. Immediately after launch we had 300+ sign ups for the tenant portal which is very pleasing, as well as a 41% increase in traffic which is great. We now feel proud to signpost people to the site rather than embarrassed. Best process for website development I've been through in a 30 year career!"

"Both Millie & Jade are fantastic to work with, I definitely consider them an extension of my team! You are so patient and accommodating — as soon I send the copy over, I know the project is in good hands. Our stakeholders love smalltalk, it gets such praise for its quality. When looking to make new partnerships, for contributors etc we always find smalltalk is the draw!"

"To a startup, your brand is your identity. It embodies who you are, what you do and why you do it. A professional brand gives you the foundation to grow, however for most in the early stages, this is unachievable. This is a catch 22 for most budding entrepreneurs. Winning Designdough’s Brands labs gave us that opportunity and it has quite frankly transformed our entire business. The team refined our why through the brand strategy, have given us an outstanding brand that set us apart from our competition and provided us a world class website that is dynamic, informative and improved our management systems. I cannot overstate how thankful we are to the whole team - Joe, Jade, Ben, Millie, Soph, Michael and Gabe. You are amazing! And should be so proud of this competition and the service you provide."