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Branding and graphic design. Affordable and bespoke website design and development, start-up web design, hosting and support, SEO, digital marketing and social media content and social media marketing.

Sable deliver new Website

April 22, 2024
Sable are a central-Cambridge based design agency that have been around the block and back, we’ve been going strong since 2003. We combine small agency focus with big agency thinking to provide a complete range of branding, design for print, packaging, web design and strategic services to clients over a wide range of business sectors.

Sable&Hawkes commissioned by GB Social Housing for graphic design services

March 25, 2024
Creative brand, design and marketing services for the education and training sector

Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

March 7, 2024
A short and very useful guide to selecting the right design agency for your branding and graphic design project.

How to choose a design agency. A short guide.

February 13, 2024
As a branded media and content design company we help brands, products and people stand out from all the noise, attract attention, create distinction, retain interest and build meaningful connections with staff, customers, prospects and potential recruits. This is our latest branded cross media advertising campaign project.

Major law firm recruitment campaign delivered

June 29, 2023
Sable&Hawkes combine over 20yrs creative and technical experience working with NHS development and arts teams, project managing all aspects of the creative, production and installation of NHS ward and public space environment projects.

Sable to art project and design NHS Ward Environments for Cambridge University Hospitals

June 26, 2023
Usablity web design digital media and social media marketing

Amazon Prime. The prime example of usability gone wrong.

June 23, 2023
Life Science, Pharma and Biotech marketing design services, product illustration and process infographics

Selling Cannabis

June 19, 2023
NHS Arts Installation Environment Design Project Case Study

New NHS donor art installation

May 22, 2023
Sable&Hawkes are experts in icon design, corporate and scientific infographics and technical illustrations, whether to explain products, systems or processes, our in-house team translates complex or routine concepts into stunning, easy-to-understand visual assets.

Using the power of the visual

April 18, 2023
Sable&Hawkes Digital and Social Design and Content Services Creative design and tech | User development | Content and social Our services in digital: • User experience strategy and engagement • Information architecture and web design • Web content resourcing and creation

Sable&Hawkes deliver event website for Cambridge Tech Event

April 3, 2023
Sable&Hawkes combine over 20yrs creative and technical experience working with NHS development and arts teams, project managing all aspects of the creative, production and installation of NHS ward and public space environment projects.

Art & Design in NHS Healthcare: New Ward Environment Design

March 29, 2023
How to manage the branding process

Managing the branding process

March 21, 2023
It’s usually mistaken for targeting or segmentation, which are essentially tactics derived from it, but generally and more accurately most marketers know of it as market orientation – making that conscious effort to think and see the world as your customers see it. Why is it so important? Because the good marketers can use this approach to work out how to link what they do with what their clients want, much more effectively.

The key to successful marketing strategies

March 17, 2023
Cambridge-based brand, design and content marketing company Sable&Hawkes have been commissioned to deliver business literature, branding, digital illustrations and environment graphics for Echion Technologies

Designs for new business marketing materials

March 13, 2023

Brand building, social media and customer loyalty

March 7, 2023
Sable and Hawkes are creative designers, art directors and illustrators for hospitals and the NHS. Combining 20yrs technical experience project managing all aspects of creative hospital design solutions, production and install of these NHS environment projects. Running focus groups, deliver the creative, printing large format industrial graphics and managing hospital art project installations.

Design for hospital environments

February 24, 2023
Creative Design and Arts Project for NHS UK

NHS Arts Design Project

February 20, 2023
mockups-design.com

New Corporate Brochure Design

February 13, 2023

Why are logo’s so important and what criteria define a good one?

February 7, 2023

Corporate values: get it right

January 31, 2023

How we feel in hospital can affect us for life

January 30, 2023

20 free tips for a killer PPT presentation

June 21, 2022
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Property Development Marketing and Design

January 19, 2022

The barriers to communication

January 12, 2022

Let’s be friends … (its about branding really)

December 15, 2021
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When your best isn’t good enough.

November 24, 2021
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Happy thoughts make a happy brand

November 15, 2021
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Half mechanic. Half editor. Half designer.

November 9, 2021

Six key ideas for branding in the digital age

November 4, 2021
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Should style, message or content drive your solution?

October 14, 2021

Are brands relevant in the age of digital?

October 14, 2021

Branding and the art of good copy.

October 14, 2021
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In praise of the client design agency relationship.

October 14, 2021
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Apple – the classic strapline: A case study.

October 14, 2021
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Where Graphic Design meets Content Marketing.

October 14, 2021
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How graphic design works in a modern business.

October 14, 2021
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How designing corporate identity has changed

October 14, 2021

Market orientation: thinking like your customers

October 14, 2021
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Anyone can write a strapline…

October 14, 2021
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Lets do that brand audit of yours together!

October 14, 2021

How to write a creative campaign brief.

October 14, 2021

Portfolio Tips for Student and Young Designers.

October 14, 2021
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My definition of brand and branding.

October 14, 2021
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Innovation in business: a short history of Google.

October 14, 2021
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Effective marketing for start-ups.

October 14, 2021
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Project management and graphic design.

October 14, 2021
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A simple introduction to fonts and font licensing.

October 14, 2021
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How emotion drives brands and business success

October 14, 2021
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Marketers: Your profession needs you!

October 14, 2021
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Why corporate values are so important.

October 14, 2021
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Brand purpose: a definition

October 14, 2021
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Socially responsible branding: really?

October 14, 2021
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Wanted: Chief Marketing Officer

October 14, 2021

Don’t say nothing: Creative writing for brands

October 14, 2021

A 3 min marketing read on how to get screwed over.

October 14, 2021
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Dieter Rams: 10 Principles of Good Design.

October 14, 2021

Plan your business strategy in 8 easy steps

October 14, 2021
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A quick and simple test for your brand positioning

October 14, 2021
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Is Audi, Skoda’s ‘better connected’ uncle?

October 14, 2021
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In praise of Polaroid: and all that’s black and blocky

October 14, 2021
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What is good graphic design?

October 14, 2021

The value behind brand loyalty

October 14, 2021
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A brief history of marketing

October 14, 2021
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Marketing and the reasons we buy

October 14, 2021

Why ordering a curry was a great brand lesson

October 14, 2021
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Sainsbury’s, Asda and the 4Ps.

October 14, 2021

A design company’s guide to writing a creative brief

October 14, 2021
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A short guide to running a communications audit

October 14, 2021

The purpose of branding

October 14, 2021
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1-0 to the Arsenal: 5 steps to customer loyalty.

October 14, 2021

Frothing Sumatra: Starbucks, positioning and the ‘big idea’

October 13, 2021

A quick guide to better business copywriting

October 13, 2021
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A simple guide to file formats for marketing professionals.

October 13, 2021

A mini blog on colour

October 13, 2021

Let’s talk values

October 13, 2021

Is the monolithic brand dead?

October 13, 2021
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The difference between brand and corporate identity

October 13, 2021
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Simplicity is genius.

October 13, 2021

The point of branding? It’s a question of choice.

October 13, 2021
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The truth about PR-style Brand and Vision Programmes

October 13, 2021

A penne for your thoughts: Doing a Ratner

October 13, 2021
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Carlos Alberto, William Blake, Sable and Hawkes.

October 13, 2021

“So how do you project manage?”

October 13, 2021