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We measure success in outcomes, not deliverables.

Every project is built to do two jobs at once – make life simpler for the people on the receiving end and make life more manageable for the organisation behind it.

For your customers

Easier to choose, use and trust

  • Information structured so it can be understood at a glance, not decoded.
  • Communications that build trust and reduce hesitation.
  • Differences and benefits made obvious, so choosing is simple.
  • Solutions co-designed with the people most systems leave behind.

For your organisation

Compliance and control, at scale

  • Content that stays current with changing legislation across every market.
  • Structured systems that cut the time and cost of market rollout.
  • Fewer errors, fewer reprints, fewer compliance gaps.
  • Bespoke processes that take the friction out of managing large, regulated ranges.

 

We're a strategic consultancy, not a design studio that decorates.

Three disciplines sit underneath everything we do and they're the reason our work holds up in heavily regulated, multi-market environments where the cost of getting it wrong is high.

We design around how it actually works

We start with how a product or service functions, not how it looks. We map the real journey a person takes – through a website, a form, a brochure or a shelf of packaging – and design around the way the service has to work, end to end.

Design that changes what people do

Design only succeeds if it changes a behaviour – the form gets completed, the right product gets chosen, the safety guidance gets followed. We structure information so the right decision is the easy one, then judge the work by what people actually do.

Solutions built with people, not just for them

The people who use a service, those who deliver it and those who regulate it rarely agree by default. We bring them together and co-design, so what we deliver is workable, compliant and adopted, not just well designed.

Every brief runs the same four stages, always in this order:

1

Diagnose

Audit how it works today and find who's being left out. Whether through a website, a complex brochure, a financial application form or a range of packaging, we review user and customer journeys to find where things break and then show the way through.

2

Restructure

Rebuild the information around the user, with clear hierarchy and difference. Bringing order to complexity, we rationalise large suites of literature or product portfolios, structuring content so the right things come first and nothing important hides.

3

Design

Apply emotive brand design to a structure that already works. Once the structure is working, we focus on the branding, visual identity and creative, across packaging and printed material. We produce communications that explain themselves, especially in technical and legislated sectors, turning complicated things into something graspable at a glance.

4

Sustain

Build the systems that keep it accurate, compliant and consistent for the long term. Our label management systems keep every back label compliant, consistent and clear, and our translation libraries provide a single, controlled source of truth so content is right in every language.

Thinking before looking. Notice that design is the third stage, not the first. The most visible thing we do is the thing we do last, because a striking solution on a broken structure is just a better-looking problem. We earn the visuals by getting the thinking right first.

A few words from our clients

Thorough yet flexible, with great attention to detail; I trust B&G to get things done & make my life easier.
B&G made the complicated uncomplicated; exactly what we needed!
B&G have made our complex processes & material simpler, more cost efficient and more faithful to our brand.