What makes you look for a design company’s website?

The answer is simple: you need someone to do some design work for you.

But what makes you stay looking at a design company's website?

Is it the usual stuff that you expect to find? — The hyperbolic high-faluting stuff like ‘ROI’, ‘demographics’, ‘brand goals’, ‘delivering value’, ‘highly creative teams’, and so on?

We don't think so. You probably already have a good idea about those things. You know your business and you know what you expect to see delivered from a design company. So it can't be that.

Is it the list of clients — those all-important badges of honour . . . examples of past glory aimed at inspiring you with confidence and having you reach for the company chequebook?

Again, we don't think so. Its just window dressing. Looks nice, but lacks real substance as it is old news.

But . . . just in case that's what you want — well we can do all that — we can tell you who our clients are and we can provide you with enough acronyms and buzz-phrases to make your head spin. But we think you want more than that. You're an individual and your company is individual. What we've done for other people will not necessarily work for you.

So perhaps you are still reading because you can sense the fact that we are a company that will listen to you and not just talk about ourselves.

Listening to you is the most important place to start.

So we will listen attentively while you explain the history of your company and its products or services. We will listen to understand your customer base, evaluating its position in the marketplace. All this must be done before we can provide you with the service you truly need. After all, no design company can be expected to know all the solutions before they've explored the project fully . . . though some of them profess that they do.

Naturally, during the course of our discussions, we'll show you what we've done for other clients, particularly if we feel there's a commonality between your company and them. And we'll work with you for as long as it takes, to arrive at the right answer for you.

Hopefully, you’ll find that attitude refreshing. All of our other clients have . . . clients, large and small, who appreciate our honesty, clarity and sheer hard work when it comes to giving them what they want.

Of course you won't be able to judge anything properly until you meet us. You'll not be able to make any sound decisions until you talk to us and allow us to become your confidante.

We think you'll see that we're people of integrity. People who are reliable. People who are creative. People who are experienced. People with a social conscience.

Meet us and we’ll tell you our full, un-cut, convincing story . . . a story of long-term relationships with our clients, including some of the biggest companies in the world. A story of delivering value through appropriate creative and technical solutions. A story of innovative, compelling design solutions for our clients' brands, across many forms of media.

And more interestingly, it's a story of love, war, tragedy, betrayal and personal triumph that pulls at those heartstrings and will have you reaching for the tissues. All human life is there — just no buzz phrases or gobbledegook.

But there are plenty of places you can get that . . . if that's what you really want.