HemingwayDesign

We are HemingwayDesign A multi-disciplinary design studio with a legacy and portfolio that spans four decades, projects that traverse disciplines and sectors, and clients of every persuasion; Shelter, The National Trust, St. Modwen, Southbank Centre and TFL, to name a few. We are a talented and motivated team of graphic designers, urban planners, writers, art directors, ideas people and strategic thinkers; combining diverse fields of skills and expertise to create meaning and transformation for ambitious clients. We collaborate, we create, and we care about the detail as much as the big stuff. We believe that great design comes from a desire to improve things that matter in life and this long-held philosophy underpins everything that we do – putting ethics and environment at the heart of design. It is this mantra that continually ensures our creative thinking and method for delivering socially responsible design. Our work takes us across culture-led regeneration, urban design, interior architecture, community-focused placemaking, large scale multi-arts festivals, exhibition design, graphic and brand identity amongst other things. But our real speciality is with people, places, and positive societal impact. Over the last 30 years, we’ve helped rebuild Europe’s first ever pleasure park (for which we were shortlisted for Design Museum’s ‘Design of the Year’ in 2017), advised House of Lords select committees, publicly shamed the house building industry then demonstrated (by masterplanning and designing an award-winning housing scheme in Gateshead) that a better way is possible, co-designed a new uniform for Transport for London, rebranded FTSE 100 companies and thrown a 24-hour non-stop multi-arts festival for 30,000 revellers on a sandy beach in Suffolk. We’ve formed new creative communities in Blackburn and Bognor Regis, reimagined heritage buildings in Portsmouth, Preston, and Plymouth, and influenced the influenced the urban fabric of Bournemouth, Dartford, King’s Lynn, Maidenhead, Manchester, and Whitehaven, all with great acclaim. We are not restricted by a house style, or by process (although we have tried and tested methodologies). We have a subjective point of view that is considerate of diverse and divergent perspectives. We’re plugged into the Zeitgeist; we understand cultural context and social issues that affect and shape people’s lives every day. Our greatest strength lies in the multidimensional way we look at all projects, which comes from years of multi-disciplinary design experience and a highly motivated team that share their expertise and learnings across all the projects that we work on. We’re proud to be members of the Good Business Charter, a Living Wage Employer and as of November 2022 B-Corp certified.