Northwind Studio
Northwind is a four-person design studio in Manchester: brand identity, websites and launch campaigns for founders and marketing teams, delivered in weeks rather than months.
Work
Each with the result it was hired for.
A field-research tool that looked like a spreadsheet. New identity and a website built around the product, launched in six weeks.
A practice with twenty years of work and no way to show it. A portfolio site that puts the buildings first.
Knife makers in Sheffield. Packaging, photography and a shop that loads in under a second.
The launch of a patient app: landing pages, film and a four-week campaign.
A roastery going from wholesale to retail; a brand that works on a bag and on a van.
A payments company’s marketing site rebuilt as a static site with forms and analytics, no CMS to maintain.
Services
Fixed prices, fixed dates, written in the proposal.
Strategy, name and voice if you need them, logo, type, colour and the rules to use them. Five to seven weeks.
Design and build, content included, on a static host you own. Six weeks from kick-off to launch.
Landing pages, films and ads for a product launch, run for four weeks with weekly numbers.
Two days a week of design and development for teams that ship every week.
Studio
We are four people who have worked together since 2017: two designers, a writer and a developer. Small on purpose, so the people you meet in the first call are the people who do the work.
We take on six to eight projects a year. Each one gets a fixed scope, a fixed price and a launch date in the proposal, and we have hit the date on all but two of them.
Reviews
They told us the launch date in the proposal and hit it. Demo requests went up by a third in the first month.
Northwind understood that the buildings are the brand. The site gets out of their way.
Working with four people who all know the project beats a thirty-person agency every time.
FAQ
A call, then a written proposal within a week: scope, price, launch date and who does what. You decide after that; the call and the proposal cost nothing.
Six weeks for most marketing sites, from kick-off to launch. Brand identity runs five to seven weeks. Both dates go in the proposal.
Fixed prices for defined projects, starting at the figures above. No hourly billing, no surprises; a change in scope is agreed in writing before it is worked on.
You own the files and the hosting. Most clients keep us on a small retainer for changes and campaigns; some never need to.
Contact
A few lines about what you need and when. We reply within a working day with a time for a call.