Flourish

Flourish is a creative web design and branding agency with a studio in Guildford and a satellite office in London. Launched in 2017, it works with brands that want to stand apart from generic identities and template websites, combining brand strategy, visual identity, copywriting and custom WordPress development in one team of designers, writers and developers.

The studio's partners bring more than three decades of combined experience, and the agency works across any sector. It organises its offer into strategy, branding, digital and aftercare. Websites are built from scratch rather than from templates, on WordPress with WooCommerce for online stores, so clients can edit their own content after launch. Its guiding motto is that the work is only worthwhile if everyone flourishes, and its stated values are People before Pixels, Walk the Walk, Zag when they Zig, and Onwards as One.

• Strategy: workshops, brand foundations, brand messaging, customer insights, competitor review and straplines
• Branding: brand identity, creative direction, brand evolution and brand guidelines
• Digital: website design, web development, WooCommerce e-commerce, website copywriting and presentations
• Aftercare: hosting, software, security and maintenance, CMS training and the AfterCare+ monitoring plan

Featured projects on the site include Fated to Pretend (streetwear), Your Travel (business travel), Archer (strategic investment in hotel real estate), Yellowbelly (headshots), Nash (property marketing), Odyssey (video production), The Milk Collective (relaunch of a talent agency), Universal Music (launching artists at the Fairmont) and Brickfield.

Aftercare covers domains, redirects and connections so sites stay live, monthly monitoring, plugin updates and functionality checks, and training that teaches clients to edit content, upload material and manage design in WordPress. AfterCare+ adds proactive monitoring and optimisation for sites hosted with the agency, with on-demand support.