About us

we’re very glad you’ve taking the time to find out a little more about us and what ideas we might have to help you achieve your goals.

beatnik design and marketing has offices, partners and employees in both the UK and the canary islands and we’re pleased to offer our services to organisations of all kinds in both locals. we think that it’s about time that smaller businesses had access to the kind of high-quality design, backed up with commercial thinking, aimed at maximising promotional and advertising spend, usually the preserve of much larger, corporate entities.

what we do

our design team are experts in the design and production of promotional material such as posters, flyers & leaflets, catalogues, brochures & menus, banners, display & signage and point of sale & packaging. we offer an innovative and elegant web-design service where you can get a website, make the most of social media or even build and online shop, and we have huge experience in logos and branding.

our marketing team specialises in understanding who your customers are and what they really want using customer research and the subsequent analysis of data collected, can help to understand their attitudes and foster relationships by managing your social media sites, and can ensure that they return time and again by producing compelling newsletters and e-newsletters.

“getting the right message, to the right people, at the right time and place”

we have a team of talented designers, marketers and copy-writers, ready to generate or help to turn your ideas into reality. everything we do is done with pride, and always with the client and their customers in mind. every design job is tweaked to ensure it delivers just the right message to your target market, and each promotion is placed where and when we know it’ll have most impact on clients’ commercial success. why not visit our portfolio to get an idea of what we could do for you.

how and why beatnik design and marketing came about

we began beatnik design and marketing back in 2010, when we faced a demand from UK businesses for the combination of great design, marketing understanding and commercial awareness. since then we’ve helped businesses of all kinds to better appreciate what makes them successful, and to implement the perfect mix of customer communications to make the most of their potential. we always aim to maximise the effectiveness of the spend of our clients, and as such we try to keep costs to a minimum, scouring the globe for the best value for money printing services, artwork and copy-writing, whilst always maintaining our benchmark of quality on behalf of clients. we’ll be frank and open about likely costs right from the start, quoting for our time & production costs separately and offering rates that make sense to the smaller business, and we pride ourselves on always delivering when we’ve said we will.

Why not view information on the services we offer, be those marketing or design

Approach

when we say ‘big ideas for small businesses’, we really mean it. whatever your business, whoever your customers might be, beatnik design and marketing has the people and the tools to make the most of your spend on advertising and promotion, through cutting edge design and innovative marketing campaigns, all at a price that makes sense for smaller businesses.

our approach to our work is dictated by a desire to achieve real, tangible results for our clients and to make their businesses more profitable and successful. by providing reliable, easy to manage, commercially driven design and marketing services, we make things simple for clients and charge great rates for the work that we do.

our design service always produces work that is a delight to the eye, but more importantly we create commercially-focused designs that generates the maximum possible awareness, enquiries, bookings or sales for your organisation. our growing team has experience across many different organisations and understands how to talk to customers of all ages, nationalities, and from different financial or social strata. we utilise a visual and verbal style that they instantly understand and recognise, that feels personally tailored to them and that demands their action or attention.

check out some of the brilliant design work we’ve done for others

our marketing specialists are always thinking about how best to appeal to our clients’ customers. their mantra of ‘get the right message, to the right person, at the right time and place’ sounds deceptively simple; they are experts at understanding customers wants and needs, know just how to talk to them to prompt them to action, and understand how, when and where to speak to them for maximum impact. whether you’re looking for new customers, or seeking to retain and maximise the value of your current customer base, we have the big ideas to get the job done.

our team of superb graphic designers and web designers are sure to have the solutions you need to make the most of your business and to deliver your message to potential customers with panache and gusto, whilst our marketing team ensures that all the work we do is commercially focussed, geared to achieve excellent ROI (return on investment) and delivers the right message to the right audience, at the right time and place.

marketing

our marketing team is led by our marketing director; thomas raper, who has over a decades experience of working with businesses in many sectors and of varying sizes. thomas has worked with large and dynamic corporations including telecommunications giant orange, and large, UK-based, financial players like lloyds banking group and nationwide building society. thomas has a background in direct and ATL (above the line) marketing and is an expert in customer data analysis and understanding how to acquire new customers for a businesses and how to drive loyalty, advocacy and retention. thomas is passionate about the needs of small business and is well versed in making their promotional material and advertising work to achieve tangible results for business owners and managers.

beatnik also has long-standing & strong relationships with copy-writers, data-analysts, translators & other marketing specialists within the beatnik offices & from around the globe, ready and waiting, whenever a project demands.

why not use our contact us form to get in contact with thomas and his team or visit our marketing services page for more information on how our team could help your business.

design

our inspirational design team is led by talented & experienced design director; gemma garford, for whom design has been a life-long passion. gemma has worked in the commercial fashion industry, designing bespoke garments for airline & hospitality staff as well as employees from other industries. gemma’s also been responsible for website, catalogue and brochure design for publishing and mail-order organisations. before beatnik, gemma was the driving force behind the design identity of magmatic ltd, the multi-million euro turnover company responsible for trunki … the children’s ride-on suitcase featured on UK TV show ‘dragon’s den’, and more recently new products such as the trunki ‘boostApak’ featured on the BBC’s ‘apprentice’. the trunki brand now has a global reach, comprising an ever growing, award winning product range. gemma has been behind the scenes since magmatic’s conception, visually defining the trunki brand, and has been responsible for implementing branding guidelines worldwide. we’re still involved with trunki due mainly to gemma’s exceptional work with them in the past.

gemma and her team believe that small businesses deserve the same high quality design as any global corporation and always aim to deliver customers’ messages with style and elegance, whilst retaining a focus on clients’ objectives, and gearing everything that they produce to maximise commercial success. beatnik have in-house specialists in graphic design, custom illustration & website design and we can handle any design project that comes our way.

why not use our contact us form to get in contact with gemma and her team or visit our design services or portfolio pages for more information on how our team could help your business.