Design Agency Manchester

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Designing your website, social posts, brochures, sales decks, event stands, banners, signage, brand iconography, landing pages, animated videos, in-video animations, showreels and so much more.

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How does it work?

3 Phases

We get to know you, then make your brand shine.

Already got brand guidelines but just need support with design? We’ve got you. Need to start from scratch with a cohesive brand identity? Say no more.

18^°

Learning +
Planning

First, we’ll chat to you to figure out exactly what you need support with. Are we freeing up time for your in-house designer? Don’t have an in-house designer and need a team to take things off your hands? We’re here to help. This first stage is figuring out exactly how we can help, what kind of design support you need, and how often.

12^°

Designing +
Developing

Here’s where we design the thing. Whatever you need. We work in a few different ways. You can brief us for every project, or buy a ‘pot’ of hours that we’ll work through, or work with us on an ‘outshine’ basis. The last one is how we prefer to work. It means you’ll pay monthly, and we’ll work through all the projects you need us to without having to worry about multiple invoices. You’ll also get a 0% mark-up on anything we have to use our little black book of partners for.

06^°

Testing +
Launching

Finally, we’ll send you the design for sign-off, and move onto the next one! Together, we’ll have your brand looking amazing across all areas.

Design support, directly from the designers, whenever you need it. You’ll have everything on-brand, forever.

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Managing Director

Alice Milner

Designer

Alice is one of our designers here at Dawn. She joined the team in 2022, previously having worked for Pretty Little Thing and The Hut Group.

When asked what she liked most about her role here, she said: “Being creative daily and my work being something I genuinely enjoy doing, it’s exciting seeing ideas come to life and being surrounded by creatives that love doing the same. Dawn is also very different to places I have previously worked so I am always learning new things so it is exciting to see what is next!”

Henry Crompton

Designer

This is Henry, one of our designers specialising in motion graphics.

Motion and animation is an important part of web design that many don’t consider. It gives a website that edge that puts you ahead of the next competitor. When nearly every brand touchpoint is through a screen of some kind, it makes sense to take advantage of the digital experience, and make it move.

Henry has created animations for Apadmi, Zen Internet, DMFA and more, helping our clients showcase what they do through the power of motion.

Outside of the 9-5, Henry loves cooking, hanging out with his niece, and travelling the world.

Oli Furze

Design Director

Oli, our design director, leads the design team.

He has been at Dawn since… the Dawn, really. Specialising in branding projects, Oli will ensure your web design is aligned with your overall brand, and if it’s not, he’ll take you on a journey to make sure it is.

Oli believes web design should be simple. Over-complication won’t convert your customers. After all, people leave a poorly designed website within a few seconds.

Ana Rudolph

Designer

Ana is a designer here at Dawn.
She grew up in Boston, USA, and moved to Manchester in 2021.
Before becoming a designer and studying at the same place as our Design Director, Ana lived in Madrid and taught English. Aside from design, her hobbies are pasta making, travelling, making her own clothes, knitting, and experimenting in the kitchen. Inspired by typography everywhere she goes, Ana believes that there’s a lot of value in stepping away from screens to take a deeper look at the world.

Chris Coppen

Designer

Craig Farrall

Digital Director

Craig is our digital director, heading up the web team.

Craig specialises in Bespoke WordPress builds – this could be anything from a small brochure website, to an eCommerce website, to a custom plugin development. He crafts pixel perfect websites that are compliant, easily readable for other developers to work on and providing clients the full edit-ability that they require.

His favourite kind of web project to work on is something that contains a very technical bit of functionality such as a calculator or a quoting system. He says “I really enjoy having to problem solve a development issue to try and reach a solution”.

Wayne Peacock

Senior Developer

Wayne has been a web developer at Dawn since 2017, having worked in a variety of sectors across B2B and B2C.

Before Dawn, he led a web team for one of the UK’s largest software providers within the travel industry.

Over the past 25 years, Wayne has been empowered to make a difference, creating successful responsive websites that are fast, easy-to-use, and built with best practice using modern front end development. Whether it’s a custom built website in WordPress or bespoke, the attention to detail is always at the forefront.

Karen Harwood

Operations Director

Karen, the Operations Director at Dawn, is the ultimate multitasker. She’s all about paying invoices on time and keeping projects on track. She’s a force to be reckoned with when it comes to managing the team’s workflow and the overall capacity of the studio.

But, that’s not all – Karen is also the hero behind all our work socials and horizon days. And if you catch her running around the office, it’s probably because she’s training for her next 10k race – she’s another one of our resident runners.

Amy Gleave

Marketing Manager

Amy is our Digital Marketing Manager.

Her day to day includes writing blogs for Dawn, developing and activating our marketing strategy, including planning social media, content, and PR activity.

Amy loves travelling, having lived in Australia for two years, and reading. Currently on her TBR list is Moby Dick, Meditations, and In Search of Schrodinger’s Cat.

Dave O’Hearns

Managing Director

Dave is our founder and managing director, and has worked within the creative industry for 25 years.

Starting as a graphic designer following his graduation from Newcastle University, Dave went on to start up his first creative agency in 2006. Following multiple successes with the likes of Bentley Motors, Adidas and Swiis Foster Care, he founded Dawn in 2014.

Aside from running the agency, Dave does a lot of actual running too.

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Brand strategy

Brand identity

Brand management

Website design

Website development

Digital product design

UX design

UI design

Conversion rate optimisation

Motion graphics

Video production

Showreel creation

Design support for any project at any time. Everything on-brand, forever.

Looking for a team of designers to take your brand to the next level? With our team of graphic designers, animators, web designers and developers, you’ll never see an off-brand document or asset ever again.

Recent projects

Designing your website, social posts, brochures, sales decks, event stands, banners, signage, brand iconography, landing pages, animated videos, in-video animations, showreels and so much more.

How does it work?

Already got brand guidelines but just need support with design? We’ve got you. Need to start from scratch with a cohesive brand identity? Say no more.

18°

Learning + Planning

12°

Designing + Developing

06°

Testing + Launching

Design support, directly from the designers, whenever you need it. You’ll have everything on-brand, forever.