You’ve got your business idea, your builder, and maybe your keys…BUT do you have your retail branding?
How do you make someone go into your shop for the first time and keep them coming back?
Do you have an eye-catching shop logo for your main signage? Does it stand out from your neighbours? Do people know what you are selling? What’s your space feel like inside? What are those little touches that make people obsessed with your business?
restaurant, cafe, retail, and service brands, I’m looking at you.
With the high street in the UK disappearing by the moment, the businesses that make it are the ones that draw people in and keep them coming back for that amazing product or service. Or maybe just the best beef empanada or hand-poured pomegranate-scented candle.
Whatever you’re selling, you want people to engage and enjoy your space once they are in there AND once they leave you want them to remember you. And come back. And tell their friends about you. It’s those tiny touches that might not be exactly what you’re selling, but the ones that your customers will remember.
As part of your restaurant branding, maybe you want a custom designed set of playing cards for sale because you know that the families that come in need something to do. At your cafe, maybe it’s the cosiest colour of compostable takeaway cups with an on-brand message that gives people an extra perk-up with their coffee fix. At your boutique fitness studio, maybe it’s just-the-right fonts in your signage.
Whatever all of those elements might be for your business, you need to create them with your audience, your neighbourhood, your future plans and your brand in mind. And that, my independent high street friend, is where March and Bloom comes in.
I’m your triple threat:
After spending over 13 years working with brands like L’Oréal, Moët-Hennessy, Kimberly-Clark and Walgreens + over 9 years with small independents in the food, beauty, and creative services, I can say that working with local brands is what gets me out of bed in the morning. There is nothing better than knowing I’m helping revive the high street one independent business at a time. I love shouting about you from the metaphorical rooftops, too.
Graphic designing with a supremely keen eye. I pay attention to ALL of the things, big (your audience and how do we design for them) AND and small (the perfect restaurant logo for your tote bag), and I’m always brainstorming ideas along the way to share. The colour you paint your walls is as important as the messaging on your menus or gift vouchers. I love thinking about it all together. And how it might work and live in the future – how can this branding grow with you.
I live and breathe local businesses. I’m thankful to call SW12 home, and go local as much as I can. Hair, cafes, gyms, restaurants, card shop, book shop. You name one and I can give you my recommendation. I also regularly check out the neighbouring postal codes SW4, SW17, SW11, and SW18 – as someone who loves a walk and gets around via bike.
want to get high street ready?
Let’s sit down, talk about your business and how I can help bring your brand to life. Meet at my favourite local coffee shop or yours?
– celine thompson, co-owner of Jefferson’s Ice cream, Balham SW12
“testimonial from a local business to go in here.”
“I highly recommend and love working with Jen. I've worked with Jen over the past decade while we were both at L'Oreal and more recently on personal projects and at my new company.
She's one of my go-to creative resources for several reasons: 1/ she has fantastic, upscale design aesthetic, and a keen eye for modern beauty 2/ timely & responsible and always collaborative with feedback and 3/ strategic thinker - she can do creative on one piece and understand how it translates into other facets of branding - be it logo, website, social or photography.
Full design deliverables
(because your brand is more than your shop logo)
Logo design
Website design
Shopfront design
Exterior signage
Interior signage
Postcards, loyalty cards, all cards
Takeaway materials (cups, bags, boxes, napkins)
Menu design
Package design
Full branding (including colour palette, font pairings, photography styles, illustrations)
Employee uniform design
Bags & tags
Social media templates
And you don’t need to do all of this at once. After you throw open the shop / restaurant / gym / spa doors we can add to it little by little. Once a client, always a client.Packages start at £2600
13 years agency experience + 9 years working with small businesses
– stephanie cox, co-owner of ralph’s pizzeria, Balham SW12
“testimonial from a local business to go in here.”
“I highly recommend and love working with Jen. I've worked with Jen over the past decade while we were both at L'Oreal and more recently on personal projects and at my new company.
She's one of my go-to creative resources for several reasons: 1/ she has fantastic, upscale design aesthetic, and a keen eye for modern beauty 2/ timely & responsible and always collaborative with feedback and 3/ strategic thinker - she can do creative on one piece and understand how it translates into other facets of branding - be it logo, website, social or photography.