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Index/Method

Four moves.No theatre.

The same four steps on every job, whether it is a logo or a lodge.

1. listen
2. decide
3. present
4. create
04 How a job runs
01

Listen.

We ask the awkward questions first. It is cheaper than asking them at the end.

Who is it for, what has been tried, what is the real deadline, who signs it off. You get it back in writing, on one page, before anything is designed.

You get: brief.txt
02

Decide.

One direction, argued for. Not three options and a shrug.

We show the thinking, the reference and the first proof that it works. If you can show us where it is wrong, we change it.

You get: direction.pdf
03

Present.

You see it working on the real things, with the reasons in plain words.

The sign, the site on your phone, the menu on the table: the work shown where it will live, with the thinking written down so you can sit with it before you sign off.

You get: presentation.pdf
04

Create.

Then we build it properly, down to the last file name.

Design, copy, build, motion, print and handover, with the directors who started the job still on it at the end.

You get: final_files/
! House rules

One page(01)briefs.

One direction(02)at a time.

Named files.(03)Always.

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