Making designs real is what we do. Reports, websites, documents, posters… It’s great to see something you’ve worked on published, made real and come to life in the public realm. It really is a pleasure to take your ideas from floating notions in the ether, scribbled diagrams and Word documents to real-world things – both print and digital – that your audience and clients will enjoy, engage with and share.

We’re here to help you with the layouts, the imagery, the information architecture, the visual identity and the feel, and we’ll create something that your audience will want to keep. We’ll manage the process for designing and publishing real-world books, documents and reports and we’ll do the same for digital documents like websites and eBooks too. You’ll be working with a graphic designer who is also an illustrator, so there’s no extra costs or hassle with outsourcing if you need complex drawings, digital paintings and artwork.

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Report design

Report design is something we love to do. It fits our skillset – illustration, print, design and working with words – very well indeed. We make brochures and flyers too, but reports (of the AGM variety, the academic variety and the impress-your-stakeholders variety) are our bread and butter.

Big documents like that usually contain a lot of information and they often – but not always – need graphs, illustrations, photos and infographics. They’re often something that stakeholders will need to see and feel impressed by and, crucially, understand and comprehend without too much trouble. Language, visuals and information architecture are all pivotal elements that need to be activated and arranged just so for your audience. Between us, we’ll work out a way to impress them. You can read more about our report design service here.

There’s also a post from the blog (and there’s free artwork and assets elsewhere on the blog, so do have a poke around if you like free hand-drawn graphics) on the subject of designing big documents.

Visual identities

We can make you logos, colour systems, font combinations and all of those other fascinating things that go into making what you do look good. We specialise in things that are artistic and hand-drawn (take a look on the visual identity page if you’re interested in digging into this area a bit more). There’s no AI in what we do.

Managing & designing a website

Websites are documents too. Its not often we think of them in that way, but they are. People don’t print them out thankfully, but they are derived from print design and they have many similarities to consider, such as information architecture, columns, headings and text.

If you want someone to administrate your site, provide you with graphic design work and generally behave like a design department for £7200 a year (read more about that here), fire off an email and let’s talk.

If you’re interested, you can read the page about website design and maintenance.

General problem solving & making stuff work

There is also an element of making things work in general. At the request of clients, problem-solving should be seen as an important part of working together and things like fixing website niggles, company PDFs and decoding jargon are all valuable things that happen in projects like these.

Add a creative designer to your team

If you’re a business, you can hire Engine Head in 6 month blocks (or longer if you prefer) to help deliver large projects or to soak up your excess work. Need regular email designs? Website UI’s need turning into CSS and HTML? Information architecture needs a lot of work? Consider using Engine Head. And the price – less than less than £7000 a year – is much less than agency fees.

Smaller entities like micro-businesses can also use that same 6 month block system and get support with big, multi-platform projects, large e-commerce stores, websites with a lot of artwork and information architecture, book illustrations or whatever your imagination can conjure. They could all cost you less if you explore this option.

This arrangement is a good solution for businesses who need a creative on their team but don’t necessarily have the resources for someone full time. Some businesses even use this system to maintain contributions to their organisation indefinitely.

Read more about getting a creative on your team for £7200 a year in this blog post.

Digital administration & looking after your website for you

If you have a website that needs a skilled administrator to look after it, keep it updated and to keep it running then ping off an email and ask for more details. Advice, quotes and discussions are all free. Engine Head have been working with CMS’s, code and companies for more than 10 years.

In addition, you’ll likely find it useful to have someone on hand with an artistic bent for email design, help with copy, graphic design and artwork, marketing stuff and generally coming up with ideas and solving problems. More about websites, digital and the online world can be found here.

ON THE DESIGN PROCESS

Its worth noting that sometimes the design process and the operations of creativity will throw up visuals that you don’t like. This is normal and its a valuable part of finding visuals that you love.