PDR

A design studio for serious businesses

Your business is better than it looks.

PDR designs brands, websites and digital products for companies whose numbers have outrun their appearance.

Start a project First creative direction in 10 working days.
Projects shipped
214
Industries
31
Markets
4
Founded
2017

01 Selected work

Six engagements from a shelf of 214.

Client names withheld, sectors and numbers intact.

01 Real estate · Brand identity

Motif

A developer with 40 buildings and the identity of a corner shop. The new system matches the balance sheet.

02 Fintech · Website

Northstar

A lending product explained in a single scroll. Qualified demos doubled within the quarter.

03 B2B SaaS · Product design

Signal

An analytics product cut from fourteen screens to six. Onboarding time fell by half.

04 Beauty · Packaging

Nora

A skincare line rebuilt for the three seconds a shopper gives the shelf.

05 Hospitality · Campaign

Axis

The group's first campaign to carry one voice across four cities.

06 Manufacturing · Annual report

Arc

A 96-page annual report the board read past page one.

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02 Practices

Arrive for one, stay for three.

Six practices under one roof, so the work holds from pitch deck to packaging. To date, the average partnership runs 2.6 years.

  1. 01

    Brand strategy & identity

    Positioning, naming and identity systems your team can run without us.

  2. 02

    Website design & development

    Sites built to explain a complex offer and convert the visit.

  3. 03

    UI/UX & digital products

    Product interfaces taken from first flow to shipped design system.

  4. 04

    Packaging & retail

    Structure, surface and shelf presence, from dieline to launch.

  5. 05

    Marketing, campaigns & communication

    Campaign platforms and sales collateral that hold one voice.

  6. 06

    Presentations, reports & publications

    Decks and annual reports built to survive the forward button.

Your buyers will never tour the factory.
They will visit the website.

The gap costs you quietly, in proposals that die after the meeting and launches that slip a quarter. Closing it is the whole job.

03 Process

Four moves, closed in writing.

Cost, scope and dates agreed before each step begins.

  1. 01 Week 1

    Diagnose

    One working session on the business, the buyers and the numbers. We write down what the design must achieve.

  2. 02 By day 10

    Direct

    The first creative direction, delivered inside 10 working days and decided in one meeting.

  3. 03 Weeks 3 to 8

    Build

    Design and development in weekly releases, so nothing waits on a grand reveal.

  4. 04 Ongoing

    Extend

    Guidelines, templates and a standing retainer, so the system holds after launch.

04 Contact

Bring us the thing that is hardest to explain.

That could be a complicated product, a crowded category, or an offer that only lands in person. Send a few lines and you will hear back within one working day, with an honest view on fit.

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