Grow Creative is a small design studio in London, running since 2005. Websites mostly, and they're the thing we're best at, but also identity, digital design, and working out what a business should be saying before anyone opens a design tool. 21 years, made with other people, no account managers.
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Not an agency. No studio floor, no account managers, no layers between you and the people doing the work. William runs it, and has done for 21 years.
Almost nothing here is made alone. Depending on the job it's other designers, developers, photographers, illustrators, writers, and always the client, who knows their business better than anyone we could bring in. William steers, and pulls in whoever the thing actually needs.
A lot of what we make is websites, and websites are the deepest thing we do, but the job has never really been "make a website". It's working out what someone is trying to say, deciding what form that should take, and then making it properly, together.
Keeping it small means we're honest about capacity. If we're not the right people for it, we probably know who is.
Custom WordPress built from scratch, then hosted and looked after afterwards. The jewel in the crown, and the reason most people get in touch.
Identity, interface, social and email assets, digital artwork. The screen based work that isn't a website, often made with illustrators and photographers we trust.
Copy, art direction, and deciding what the thing should say in the first place. Worked out with you rather than handed to you. Usually the part that saves the most money.
> SCANNING C:\GROW\WORDPRESS
Websites are the part we've gone deepest on, so they get their own section with proper detail and published prices. We build almost exclusively in WordPress, which is a deliberate choice: knowing one thing thoroughly beats knowing six adequately, particularly at two in the morning when a plugin update has taken a site down.
Managed WordPress hosting and support from the person who built your site. SSL, daily off-site backups, tested updates, monitoring and minor amends included. £499…
HOUR.EXEHourly charged website development work, for people or companies that need to outsource their website development. The charge for this service is £75/hour (including…
TUTORIALS.EXEZoom tutorials. These are charged at £75/hour (including VAT) for a 45-minute WordPress tutorial, for teams of up to 6 people. Attendees will learn…
Hosting and support is capped at what William can keep an eye on himself, so the support half stays true. See all WordPress services and prices.
> DIR C:\GROW\CLIENTS /W
A partial directory listing. Every one of these was a collaboration with the people who own it. Some are still live, some have been rebuilt since, and a couple belong to businesses that no longer exist, which is what happens over 21 years.
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No ticket system. No call centre. No hold music. Just the people who built it. You email, William replies, usually the same working day, and it's him rather than someone reading from a script.
Whether it's a whole website, an identity that's drifted, or just a nagging sense that the thing you've got isn't saying what you mean, tell us about it. We'll tell you honestly whether it's worth doing, and who should be doing it, even if that isn't us.
Email:
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Based in: London N22
Trading since: 2005