NMCWatch – brand overhaul + strategy

NMCWatch – brand overhaul + strategy

Branding design + website + podcast + comms, marketing & learning strategies

NMCWatch approached me to help them with their comms and marketing. As with other non-profits I’ve worked with, it was a good time in their development for a brand overhaul. Creating a fit-for-purpose presence makes all future work around comms, marketing, recruitment and fundraising much easier. So it is an important decision to make early in a new working relationship.

Clear messaging is central to rebranding any organisation. Once the key elements are set, other activities adopt a natural order.

One of the bigger comms challenges for NMCWatch is anonymity. Their work is often with very traumatised people, so developing a visual language that didn’t rely on a lot of photography and video was important.

Developing a stronger tone of voice, clarifying what they do, how they do it and enabling their very niche audience, was essential too. They had a lot of content so I re-ordered this and improved their SEO, reinforcing their thought-leadership role.

So far, I have created a logo refresh, a new website involving a thorough UX deep-dive, research into NMCWatch online forums, copywriting, illustrations, and WordPress build.

I have also been producing a podcast for NMCWatch, and am helping them strategise internal training and learning projects.

Nextenders

Nextenders

Nextenders is an Indian based technology company who provide a “world-class, economical, neutral impact eSourcing, eProcurement and eTendering solution”. Their desire was to move from a mainly Indian client base and open up into Africa, Europe and, eventually, North America.

My brief was to create a brand that would work globally.

This was a large scale project that required working with owners in Mumbai, dev teams in Ahmedabad and a UK Marketing Director.

I produced a ground-up solution that completely changed their presence. I delivered assets including logo, website, tone of voice for all copy, brand guidelines, stationary, digital templates, advertising and exhibition graphics. I also oversaw the process of implementing the new website with the dev team in Ahmedabad; this then enabled the client to roll out to localised markets.

Role: Creative Direction and Design