Web Design South East London & Graphic Design Digital Agency, Kent

Passionate About The Detail

Graphite Design have been quietly working alongside our customers for over 20 years, helping them communicate their ideas and aspirations as effectively as possible. Business cards, booklets, banners, catalogues, reports, brochures, CD covers, exhibition materials and much more.

Good design delivers results and its importance should never be taken for granted. If you want to get your message across, creative, efficient design, supported by quality printing is key, talk to us, we're here to help.

On 29th September 2014 RCM members in England made history by voting YES to take industrial action. Graphite created and developed the brand for the campaign, as well designing, printing and supplying flyers, booklets, posters, brochures, placards, banners, etc, publicising and promoting the consultation and subsequent industrial action (marches, meetings, etc.) throughout England and Northern Ireland.

Royal College of Midwives - Pay Campaign Poster

Royal College of Midwives - Strike Action

Royal College of Midwives - Pay Campaign

The Global Midwifery Twinning Project (GMTP) was a three-year multi-country partnership in the Health Partnership Scheme (HPS). The RCM formed twinning partnerships with midwifery associations in Uganda, Cambodia and Nepal, sending midwife volunteer RCM members to each twinned country. Graphite were commissioned to design the brand, logo and supporting material for the project.

The RCM is pushing to protect maternity services – they want better funding and more resources to relieve the pressures mothers are feeling, and helping them understand the care they should be getting. Graphite was commissioned to produce a series of five mini reports looking into different aspects that relate to, or are affected by the shortage of resources while caring for women in the postnatal period.

The Royal College of Midwives

The Royal College of Midwives is the only trade union and professional association dedicated to serving midwifery and the whole midwifery team. They provide workplace advice and support, professional and clinical guidance and information, and learning opportunities with their broad range of events, conferences and online resources. Our agency has been working with the Royal College of Midwives since 2008, involved in digital design and printing numerous ephemera for campaigns, events and publications.

Pay Campaign
Global Midwifery Twinning Project
Pressure Points

The Undertones

The Undertones need no introduction, with their legendary first single, Teenage Kicks, being hailed by John Peel as his all-time favourite song. Emerging from Derry in 1978, they had actually formed in 1975. The line up featured the O’Neill brothers – John and Damian on guitars, Michael Bradley on bass, Billy Doherty on drums and Feargal Sharkey on vocals. In 2007 Graphite were commissioned to design the artwork and subsequent marketing campaign for their album “Dig Yourself Deep”.

Senate Grand Prix

Senate Grand Prix specialises in providing F1 teams, drivers and sponsors, as well as a vast array of corporate and private clients with the finest hotel accommodation and race viewing hospitality for the world’s most glamorous race - The Monaco Grand Prix. In 2015 Graphite were commissioned to design the passes and supporting marketing material for the race.

Bromley Women's Aid

Bromley Women's Aid provide high-quality services to anyone fleeing domestic abuse. Their staff and volunteers provide frontline services, including refuge support, outreach support and awareness programmes and head office administration. Volunteers work across the organisation alongside paid staff. In 2012 Graphite re-branded BWA and have been working with them ever since.

London International Youth Science Forum

London International Youth Science Forum

LIYSF is a two week residential event held at Imperial College London, with lectures and demonstrations from leading scientists, visits to industrial sites, research centres, scientific institutions and organisations, including world class laboratories and universities. For a number of years Graphite have been comissioned by Hospitality Line to provide the design style for the event programme.

Logo / brand identity for Southern Soul, UK soul punk outfit Southport's third album.

Variation of logo / brand identity for clothing label, Moneybagz.

Logo / brand identity for bakerstreat, cake designers, makers and bakers in South London.

Logo / brand identity for BGFX, oscar winning makeup effects company providing photo-realistic characters for film and TV.

Logo / brand identity for Catherine Southon, antiques expert specialising in scientific instruments and maritime works, for four BBC antiques programmes and Sothebys.

Logo / brand identity for Gas, a Sheffield based contemporary arts organisation.

Logo / brand identity for Guildmore, a design-led company, creating and constructing intelligent, imaginative, high quality and cost-effective properties.

Logo / brand identity for Indoor Play Club, specifically designed to meet the needs of children's indoor play centres, devised by Morton Michel.

Logo / brand identity for the UK based development company, Mertocom.

Logo / brand identity and illustration for UK based band, Rook Raven Crow.

Stationery and brand identity for CSM logistics, providers of UK, European and Worldwide parcel delivery services.

Cover for Emma Micallelef's cake baking and decorating book, Cakes Make Memories.

Large format poster for an eighties night at the Grapes Bar in Gravesend, Kent.

Brand Identity and Miscellaneous

Graphite have re-branded and designed hundreds of logos for various companies and organisations, reflecting perfectly, the desired image for the client. Along with their expertise in all aspects of print design, you can see many exceptional examples, created for their clients as part of a complete brand solution.

Brand Identity / Logos
CSM Logistics
Cakes Make Memories
The Grapes Bar

Creativity & Expertise

Web designers since the early days, we've seen it all come and go, we evolve with the technology, it fires us up and the results are seen by millions of people across the globe each and every day.

Your web site is often the first introduction your business makes with a potential customer. It needs to grab their attention and pull their mouse away from the back button within a few seconds at the most.

How will they find you? What will keep them interested long enough for you to have a chance to get your message across? How will they contact you? How will they find how to contact you? Websites are much more than simple pages of information, they have to be eye-catching, fast loading, correctly written so they can be read by search engines, they have to say the right things to the search engines, they have to be easy to use and finally look good so they capture your visitors' interest.

It's not as easy as you might think. We've been doing it for a long time, and as end-to-end providers we are mindful of the technological as well as the creative issues associated with web sites and their cousins mobile apps.

A simple Wordpress-based soultion, an e-commerce site, a complex application integrating with web services from third-parties, small, medium or large, we should be on your list when it comes to discussing your next project.

CSM Logistics

csmlogistics.co.uk

Our web design agency worked with CSM Logistics offering a complete package to meet bespoke requirements. Designed, built, hosted and maintained by Graphite, this complex site manages the quoting, booking, collection and tracking of thousands of parcels across the globe every day. Integration with third-party eCommerce sites via an XML API gives third-party developers the ability to manage shipping operations from within their own sites - calculating exact shipping costs at checkout and arranging collections within their own sites. File importation options allow customers to import data form eBay, Amazon and any other systems using flat-file data exports without the need for programming skills. The site is supported by a bespoke invoice system (also written by Graphite) which generates and emails customer invoices automatically prior to posting the data into Sage accounting software.

Shine Recruitment

shine-recruitment.com

Shine Recruitment are a specialist recruitment agency for temporary and permanent dental staff. Launched in October 2003 Shine Recruitment Ltd has used a focused, knowledgeable recruitment team to create a London temping agency that is now firmly established in their desired niche market - dental services. This site, designed and built by Graphite allows candidates the ability to search and apply for positions through the website. Prior to the build of the website, Graphite rebranded Shine Recruitment.

Oolong Hair

oolonghair.com

Oolong is a boutique hair salon located in the exclusive and charming Shad Thames area on the South Bank by Tower Bridge. The river and cobbled streets give the area a quiet and relaxed atmosphere. Oolong aim to recreate that ambience in the salon, giving clients some me-time, whilst listening to their wishes and achieving results to make them look their very best.

BGFX

bgfx.co.uk

A portfolio site for cutting edge makeup effects company providing photo-realistic characters for film and television, founded by the Oscar and Emmy winning makeup artists Barrie Gower and Sarah Gower. Graphite initially created the BGFX logo / brand identity, company stationery and then this website. This is a minimalistic design, allowing the quality of the content to take center stage. Graphite implemented a custom built gallery using jQuery and Ajax to load new projects on the fly, without the need to reload the page. This is also a content managed site, allowing BGFX to upload new projects with ease.

Morton Michel

mortonmichel.com

Morton Michel started as a small germ of an idea 45 years ago, and is now the market leader in childcare insurance, providing cover for around 17,000 childminders and nannies, 8000 nurseries and playgroups, 5000 out of school clubs and holiday play schemes, as well as numerous other social and voluntary groups connected with childcare. Morton Michel also has a successful range of business products, as well as a busy motor, general and commercial department. The childminder organiser, fire blankets and other childcare related products, such as puppets, can be purchased through their eShop.

Camberford Law

camberfordlaw.com

Camberford Law started business in 1958 and is one of the largest independently owned Insurance Brokers and Underwriting Agents in the UK. They provide insurance solutions to the local marketplace and also ensure that clients with niche, specialist or unusual insurance requirements can obtain the cover they desire. They have earned the reputation of developing and marketing a number of specialised insurance schemes. These schemes are serviced by individuals who are, themselves, specialists in their own sector.

Greenwich Partners

greenwichpartners.co.uk

Greenwich Partners are an established search and selection firm focused on equity research, private equity, asset management, corporate finance and strategic planning recruitment. Since their establishment in 2003, they have completed in excess of 500 mandates for a significant range of blue chip banks, plcs, private equity funds, brokers and asset managers. This site, designed and built by Graphite allows candidates the ability to search and apply for positions through the website. Graphite also created the Greenwich Partners logo and brand identity.

Supplicity

supplicity.co.uk

Supplicity provides a new, helpful and easy way for you to manage your daily nutritional health regime, conveniently posted through your letterbox every month. Supplicity’s 28-day supplement boxes are designed by their in-house doctor and dietitian. They aim to provide you with an easy and manageable approach to making health and nutrition a part of your daily life. Their comprehensive vitamin boxes have been created to help you be the best you can be. Graphite also created the Supplicity logo / brand identity and subsequent product packaging.

Rawstone Hire

rawstonehire.co.uk

Rawstone Hire is an independently owned company who specialise in contractors plant, tool hire and self drive vehicle hire. Currently they have depots at Godstone in Surrey and Riverhead in Sevenoaks, Kent. Their hire fleet is constantly upgraded so they can offer modern, well presented equipment for hire at competitive prices. Their friendly and experienced staff will be happy to discuss all your hire needs. In 2012 Graphite built their website which is packed with information on the extensive range of products and services available from Rawstone Hire.

Waterfront Sailing

waterfrontsailing.com

Waterfront Sailing Academy owner, Duncan Smith, is a RYA Ocean Yacht Master Power and Sail, and Yacht Master instructor, he left a city job to follow his heart and provide sailing tuition, yacht charter and related services. Their UK operation is based at Brighton Marina on the beautiful East Sussex heritage coastline which includes Beachy Head and the Seven Sisters, the Cinque ports of Dover, Folkestone and Rye. They also boast having two of the best marinas on the south coast at Brighton, Brighton Marina and Eastbourne.

Keith Carter

keithcarter.co.uk

Keith Carter & Associates are Law Society (England and Scotland) and internationally accredited experts and have in addition to their head office in Greenwich, offices in Scotland and the West Country. The team have pioneered many new approaches to calculating loss in earnings for catastrophic or personal injury cases as well as working personally to assist those who have an acquired disability rejoin the labour market.

Cannon Cars

cannoncars.co.uk

Cannon Cars were formed in 1989 and are a family run business which prides itself in offering an extremely high level of service at very competitive rates. Cannon Cars are the largest private hire / mini cab / courier company in the local area and among the largest in the south east of England. They offer an extremely high level of service at very competitive rates. The site also consists of a ‘web booking service’ via the online booker service to book directly into their dispatch system, allowing you to also choose your preferred method of payment.

Open Your Eyes

The Team

Digital Agency Providing Web Design & Graphic Design Services

We are an independent and imaginative digital design agency providing web design & print services based in Bromley, Kent and South East London, UK. We quite simply love the work we do.

Steve Newbold

Dec Kelly

Andy Ratcliffe

John Briody

Tom Brockhouse

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