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Good design gets picked up. Great design gets kept.
Print has not gone anywhere. A well-made brochure still gets left on a desk, passed around a meeting, taken home from an exhibition. A good piece of print earns its place in a way a scrolled-past social post never quite does.
We design promotional print and digital graphics for businesses across Berkhamsted, London and beyond. Brochures, leaflets, exhibition graphics, packaging, adverts, campaign artwork. If it needs to look considered and land properly, we can make it.
Design House has been running since 2013. That matters most in print, where the difference between a job that works and a job that costs you a reprint is usually experience rather than taste.
What we design
- Brochures and catalogues, from a folded A5 through to 60-plus page documents
- Leaflets and flyers, including gate folds, roll folds and other awkward-but-lovely formats
- Exhibition and large format graphics: pull-ups, panels, window vinyls
- Packaging and label design
- Press and digital advertising
- Campaign artwork and album or event graphics
- Stationery, postcards and direct mail
1. Briefing
We start by working out what the piece actually has to do. Who picks it up, where, and what you want them to do next. A brochure for a trade stand and a brochure for a follow-up mailer are different objects, even if the content is the same.2. Copy and structure
Before anything looks like anything, we map out the flow: how many pages, what sits where, what earns a spread and what gets a column. Most print projects that go wrong went wrong here, long before anyone opened a design file.3. Design and artwork
We work up the layout properly, with real type and real images. You see it as spreads, not as isolated pages, because that is how anyone reading it will experience it. You get two rounds of amends as standard, and we would rather you used them than sat on a niggle.4. Print-ready delivery
You get correctly set up artwork: bleed, crop marks, CMYK, embedded fonts, the right profile for the press. We are happy to deal with your printer directly, or recommend one we trust.Why print still earns its place
There is a reasonable argument that print is a strange thing to spend money on in 2026. We would put it this way. Digital advertising is rented attention. It works while you pay for it and stops the moment you do not. A brochure sitting in a prospect's office is doing quiet work for months. Nobody has ever had to retarget a leaflet. It also does something a screen struggles with. Weight, texture, a spot varnish, an unusual fold: these register as care taken. For businesses selling considered work at considered prices, that signal does a lot of the arguing for you before anyone reads a word. None of which means print instead of digital. It means print where print is the right tool, and we will tell you when it is not.Where AI fits
We use AI tools in the early stages of print work in the same way we do for branding: generating layout options, exploring image treatments and moving quickly through directions that would once have taken a day to mock up. It does not set the type and it does not make the calls. Print is unforgiving in a way screens are not, because you cannot patch a mistake after 5,000 copies have come off the press. The judgement stays with us. The AI just means you see more good options before we commit.Common questions
Can you work with our existing brand guidelines?
Yes, and we would rather you had them. If you have a brand book, send it over and we will work inside it. If your guidelines are thin or out of date, we will tell you where they are going to cause problems.
Do you handle the printing as well?
We can. We work with printers we have used for years and are happy to manage the whole thing, including proofing and delivery. If you have your own printer, we will supply artwork to their exact specification instead.
How much does a brochure cost?
It depends almost entirely on page count and how much of the content already exists. A short leaflet is a very different job from a 40-page catalogue that needs its copy structured from scratch. Our rates are on the rates page, and we will give you a fixed figure before we start.
How long does print design take?
A single leaflet is usually a week or so. A larger brochure runs to three or four weeks, and that is mostly about how quickly copy and images come back to us. We will give you a realistic timeline at the briefing.
Do you write the copy as well?
We can help structure it and tighten it, and we will always tell you when something is running long or burying its point. Full copywriting from scratch is a separate conversation, and sometimes the right answer is bringing in a writer.
Do you design for screen as well as print?
Yes. Social templates, email headers, digital ads, presentation decks. Same process, fewer things that can go wrong at the last minute.
What do you need from us to start?
Any existing brand assets, your copy in whatever state it is in, and images at the highest resolution you have. If images are the weak link we will say so early, because low resolution photography is the single most common reason a print job disappoints.
Got a project in mind?
Send us a message, or call one of us directly on our mobiles. If you are in Berkhamsted, or anywhere in Hertfordshire really, Sean is in the Berkhamsted studio and is probably your best bet on 07752 964 078. If you are up in North London and would rather meet in person, give William a ring on 07989 199 030.
Introductory chats are free of charge, with no obligation attached at all.
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