Who we are

arts+ is our sister company which offers a host of additional services from leading designers and creatives.

The arts+ team is built around a core of talent and experience. We are experts in graphic design, web design, illustration,video capture, editing and production, photography, copywriting and branding and communication.

We believe great visual communication will make the difference to the impact of your DesignSessions, your brand and your message.

What we do

Our clients use arts+ when they: + have multiple stakeholders who need to agree on what needs to be said + want to be creative and generate their own ideas, not just rely on the designer + need space and time to think

arts+ delivers communication tools that get to the heart of what you need to say by making you part of the design process. We will not just interpret a brief, we will help you investigate what it is you want.

arts+ + frees the creativity of you and your team + hones your ability to find what matters, what resonates and what you agree on + helps create a story, a setting and a context for your vision which in turn makes the communication more effective – it is a process of discovery and iteration

Examples of our work

Photography

A picture speaks a thousand words. The skill of capturing a moment, a mood, an expression is honed over time. We have particular expertise in human beings in action, light and composition.

Research

Any decision-making process will involve a level of learning and new information – even if it is to validate a set of assumptions. Our research team conducts both primary and secondary source research, to understand and analyse industries, companies, customers, prospects, segments and dynamics – to provide insight to guide thinking.

Video & animation

•Video: Short films to communicate to a wider audience are used to distill knowledge before, during, after, or independent of our events. Bringing the outside in, video can communicate so much in a brief period of time. We will structure the interviews and talks, film them and edit down with the right levels of contextual imagery to ensure maximum impact.

•Animation: Animation can be used to bring ideas to life or increase impact.

Illustration

•Rich Pictures: Highly visual images, usually done on one canvas can communicate as much, if not more, than the typical thud-factor report or PowerPoint deck. Rich pictures convey the ideas, their attributes and inter- relationships and the overall context of what you are looking to achieve – as well as the emotion.

•Graphic facilitation – scribing as it is also known – is there to give live conversations a high visual impact. As you talk, we capture the flow graphically ensuring the essence of what is being said is reflected through words and pictures.

Communication documents

•Website: Used before, during or after an event, we build both informational sites as well as more collaborative portals, created either bespoke or using open source platforms such

as Wordpress. These can either be optimised to reach your audience or securely password protected to protect your content.

•Document production: Documents for the print medium are created by our graphic designers and include brochures, flyers and posters.We handle large format printing – even to tight timeframes.

•Documentation: Capturing the essence of what is said. Whilst not a word for word transcript, it is a synthesis of the ideas expressed, maintaining both the tone and substance of the conversation.

We work with all kinds of organisations to enable them to rapidly resolve complex problems. In short,

we accelerate ideas to action.

Birds of a Feather