Make Studio was founded in 2008. Over the past decade we have made a name for ourselves and our clients through elegant design and intelligent campaigns. Our expert creative team helps our clients form emotional connections with their target audiences and achieve their goals in new and inspiring ways. We work collaboratively with leading edge brands to produce value through a quality of design that regularly exceeds expectations and builds lasting heritage.
Our founders Chris Bainbridge, Carla Sanders and Andy McMinn still lead the studio, maintaining a high standard of work and a creative agency culture. The team has grown over the last ten years from the three founders to over a dozen talented, award-winning creatives. Our CGI Director Andy opened our Amsterdam office in 2015, allowing us to create a dedicated CGI studio and better serve our European clients.
When we design a brand or a campaign, we always start with the customer. We take an immersive approach to understand beyond the project objectives so that our solutions are future-proofed and have value beyond the brief. By fully understanding who your customers are and what makes them tick, we can create brands and campaigns that speak to them on a human level.
Our immersive process helps develop concept-driven solutions that engage with our client’s customers and users. This creates advantage, better positions premium brands, and enables them to resonate in complex and developing markets. Simply put, we create compelling emotional connections between brands and their target audiences that result in lasting relationships.
Our approach
When developing a brand, product or campaign, we create a multi-tiered approach based on the industry, end user and media. Holistic, context-driven strategies based on emotional intelligence will take these elements into account, creating better results than less considered approaches.
At the beginning of every project, we spend time getting to know the target audience, the environment and the brand itself in order to create more intuitive solutions. We believe it’s important to connect with your audience on multiple levels in order to strengthen and grow the relationship. Emotional connections, engaging experiences and effective communication all work together to maximise effectiveness. When you inspire, involve and inform your audience, you create memorable results that last.
Brand & identity
A well crafted brand evokes recognition, interest and trust from that brand’s target audience. It sets the tone for the entire consumer experience. Our team understands the psychology behind how people process and use information. When we design brands, we combine proven cognitive science with creative intelligence in a way that inspires an emotional response.
Digital experiences
With new technologies come new behaviours, so understanding why people behave in certain ways is paramount to creating effective user journeys and elevating brand perception. Our expertise regarding the way people interact with information helps us create nuanced and elegant experiential journeys that keep your customers coming back for more. The use of rich sensory moments in the context of relevant technologies allows users to engage with brands in an immersive and intuitive way. This establishes emotional connections with the audience and cultural relevance for the brand.
Campaign & marketing
In this multi-channel world, visual and written communication must be designed and curated to create a cohesive, impactful experience across multiple touchpoints. This ensures that the brand is always “on” and its target audience is interacting with it in the optimal context, creating lasting memories and top-of-mind status. Great design and creativity are measured not by what is put in but by what is left out. We meticulously plan communication pathways so the narrative is elegant, emotive and compelling. This helps build connections at a human level between brands and their audiences.
Relationship building is the key to any brand or campaign we create. Consumer expectations have evolved, and customers now look for more collaborative and symbiotic relationships with the brands they support. They look for shared values, strong communication and consistency. When these are present, it creates a sort of symbiosis between buyer and brand, creating an emotional connection that results in a longer-lasting, more profitable relationship.
We start each project by immersing ourselves in the business to fully understand the ideals and aspirations of the team, allowing us to craft a brand narrative that aligns with reality and creates connections with ideal customers. This also allows our clients to feel connected to the brands they represent, which helps to maximise the effectiveness of campaigns and communications.
