Creating Media

Creating Media Handcrafted and handmade - we are technically talented, creatively minded - our multi-skilled team mean we can deliver your design project.

We cover South Wales, the Borders and the South West. Creating Media creates websites, logos, print & graphic work. Creating Media strives to make the intangible, tangible – adding impetus and impact to any design brief, regardless of scale or complexity. Our culture breeds flair and enthusiasm within our team, we never settle for second best and constantly challenge boundaries … our ideas are ori

ginal, effective and proven within our industry – ask our clients, they say they like our attitude and as a result, over 70% of our business comes via referral

Have you ever found it difficult to get hold of the designer directly or have you never actually spoken to your develope...
25/08/2026

Have you ever found it difficult to get hold of the designer directly or have you never actually spoken to your developer? Actually the developer has never spoken to the designer or the copywriter and on it goes – the project manager sits in the middle stitching it together but their not in the same building or perhaps even the same time zone.

A client told me this was the first project where everyone tackling her marketing had met her and each other.

One studio with one team and one main point of contact but we are all involved in the project - that is how we do things at Creating Media.

📞 07970 073 382 | 01291 423 234
📧 [email protected]
🌐 www.creatingmedia.co.uk

I looked at a site last week, stock layout, obviously AI written copy, sold to the client as bespoke design.I’ve got no ...
20/08/2026

I looked at a site last week, stock layout, obviously AI written copy, sold to the client as bespoke design.

I’ve got no issue with AI as a tool. I use it myself for research and speeding up the boring bits.

What bothers me is someone paying handcrafted prices without knowing that’s what they got. That’s not a technology problem, it’s an honesty one.

If it’s AI, say so. If it’s handmade, it should look and read like it.

A customer asked me to look at a website last week, the copy was obviously written by AI, and it had been sold to the client as bespoke.

I've got no issue with AI as a tool, I use it myself for research and to speed up the boring bits.

The problem is that a client is paying handcrafted prices and not getting what they have actually paid for. That is an honesty and values situation and not a technology problem.

If it's AI, say so. If it's handmade, it should actually look, feel and read like it.

📞 07970 073 382 | 01291 423 234
📧 [email protected]
🌐 www.creatingmedia.co.uk

At large agencies the need for meetings is almost invented – quite often the junior or middle weights are doing the actu...
18/08/2026

At large agencies the need for meetings is almost invented – quite often the junior or middle weights are doing the actual work and the heavy weights are tied up in meetings and pitches and hospitality.

I rebelled against that conveyor belt years ago so all our team are middle weights and heavy weights and involved in all projects at every step of the way.

Meeting after meeting before the pixels get worked hard, and none of it made the website any better, it just filled the diary and made the process feel important. We are a hands on agency who like to get stuck in after minimal amounts of meetings but we also pride ourselves on good ongoing communication via the telephone/whatsapp and email etc.

We'd rather pick up a pencil and start, if we need something from you we'll ask, briefly.

📞 07970 073 382 | 01291 423 234
📧 [email protected]
🌐 www.creatingmedia.co.uk

Ask your agency for the login to your own website and see how that conversation goes.A business owner did exactly that w...
13/08/2026

Ask your agency for the login to your own website and see how that conversation goes.

A business owner did exactly that with us recently, half expecting to be told no. She wasn’t used to being handed the keys to something she had paid for. This makes no sense to me if you have paid for it then its yours and should not be held back from you but it happens.

Every client of ours gets full access from day one. Your site and your domain and totally your choice - we don’t own the site and we don’t own the design rites either which some agencies want to hang onto.

📞 07970 073 382 | 01291 423 234
📧 [email protected]
🌐 www.creatingmedia.co.uk

Someone asked me recently why our quote came in lower than one they’d already had, for the exact same job.Simple reason....
11/08/2026

Someone asked me recently why our quote came in lower than one they’d already had, for the exact same job.

Simple reason. We are not paying five people to sit in meetings about your website and justify the pricing with endless presentations. We are paying one person to build it and to work with me to make it special and individual.

I don’t think most business owners are being greedily overcharged but I do think a lot of agencies have built processes that cost more than they need to and that their outgoings are needlessly high and those costs get passed on - those costs quietly land on you but not from us.

You deserve to know what you’re actually paying for so challenge the costs and ask for a break down.

📞 07970 073 382 | 01291 423 234
📧 [email protected]
🌐 www.creatingmedia.co.uk

A client showed me their “bespoke” website last week. Underneath it was a £45 theme with their logo dropped on top.They ...
07/08/2026

A client showed me their “bespoke” website last week. Underneath it was a £45 theme with their logo dropped on top.

They weren’t cross at the agency. They were embarrassed when I showed them but how would they know? They shouldn’t have. That’s not their job.

This happens more than people realise. Not because anyone’s out to con you, but because it’s quicker and cheaper to skin a template than build from nothing, and most clients have no way of telling the difference.

Every project we do starts with a pencil, not a template folder. Slower, but it’s actually yours – templates just don’t work a couple of years down the line plus by then you will have seen that template several times at your competitors.

If you’re not sure what you’re sitting on - just ask or look at the source files on the site.

📞 07970 073 382 | 01291 423 234
📧 [email protected]
🌐 www.creatingmedia.co.uk

05/08/2026

Henry smashing sizes again

Web design secrets revealed - they don’t want us to share these.We went from designing brochures and catalogues on Macs,...
05/08/2026

Web design secrets revealed - they don’t want us to share these.

We went from designing brochures and catalogues on Macs, to websites on PCs, to flipbooks. We watched websites move onto platforms and lose their character and their client's actual ownership along with it. We watched potential clients choose packages over bespoke. We watched people turn to Canva and clip art for graphic design and churn out clone after clone.

All of it we absorbed, reacted to, and got on with it but AI is different. On one hand it can improve systems, increase efficiency, remove the mundane admin, and connect things that never used to talk to each other.

What I still don't believe is that it can replace a human creative. AI doesn't have real eyes.

AI doesn't have creative experience and creative instincts.

With that in mind, I thought it would be interesting to reveal what some competing website “designers” have quietly been doing for years.
I wonder how many people actually know about these shortcuts, and whether the designers using them regret it now that AI is coming for the exact same shortcuts they took?

Our continued future is built on a simple belief. Clients still want the taste of Waitrose, or the style of Oakley sunglasses. They don't want the clone look. They want artwork that's actually artwork, made by hand.

All our work is and always has been handcrafted, handmade, and hand drawn. It starts with a pencil.

We hadn't fully realised, after all this time, that this was our real unique selling point.

We thought it was customer service, and the magic triangle of price, quality and time which we have always worked to excel at.

So thank you, AI, for helping us find the selling point that was hiding in plain sight all along. We're looking forward to finding more clients who want human interaction mixed with handmade design and marketing.

Just to be clear, we're not anti AI but we are pro handcrafted work.

📞 07970 073 382 | 01291 423 234
📧 [email protected]
🌐 www.creatingmedia.co.uk

Handcrafted beats generated. So why is www.creatingmedia.co.uk different? So not only is every project but its also co...
07/07/2026

Handcrafted beats generated. So why is www.creatingmedia.co.uk different? So not only is every project but its also comes from a rural studio not a churn mill or machine. We produce something genuinely individual and not re-skinned templates / clip-art. We simply refuse to cut corners.

Thank you, Ben Stokes!We would like to send out or thanks to Ben Stokes and all the years of incredible service and thri...
02/07/2026

Thank you, Ben Stokes!

We would like to send out or thanks to Ben Stokes and all the years of incredible service and thrills he has given us.

For 15 years of pure guts. For refusing to play it safe. For showing that the bold choice, backed with everything you've got, can change everything.

Your captaincy rewrote the rules. Young players got their chances. Attacking cricket became the standard. You led like you played - no apologies, no shortcuts, all heart.

"I am very excited about the next part, what I get to do going back to play for my boyhood club Durham really. I am comparing this week to last right now and buzzing because of it."

Stepping away from the biggest job in English cricket to go back to your roots with Durham - what a story!

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