Simon Daffy, Sales & Marketing Director
I just wanted to thank you and your design team for an excellent job designing our new website. As you know this is currently being built and if the building is as good as the design, the end product should be fantastic.
We have been looking for a design partner who would understand our business, understand our brief, challenge our brief and come up with some new, fresh and inspiring ideas. I am delighted to say that with Reform Creative we now have that design partner.
I have no hesitation in recommending your company to anyone. The designs are great, but more than that, the service you and your team have shown has made the process simple. Thank you for all your help.
Kate Lowe, Guest Communications Manager
I first started working with Paul and the team at Reform over two years ago whilst working at Northwest Vision and Media. As a company who represented the digital and creative industries in the region, it was important that our design agency created material that made us stand out in the forefront of cutting edge design. Reform delivered this in every way and I was more than happy to recommend them when I went on to work as a freelance Senior Communications Officer at Cheshire East Council. Reform were able to inject some much needed life into its design projects, whilst keeping to the Council’s strict branding guidelines. They deliver their work quickly, efficiently, to the highest of standards and more importantly, with a smile!
Lucy Temple, Web and Publications Manager
We worked with Reform Creative on our creative courses brochure for the last two years. They won the job both times through a pitch process, where they were up against several other agencies. What always impressed us about Reform compared to the other agencies, was their creativity and innovation. Their work really stands out and importantly, each design had an idea behind it and a concept, rather than it just being a design that looked “cool” or “nice”. We also found them to be very good value for money and have really enjoyed working with them.
Andrew Palmer, Director
Design is a really fun bit of marketing, and there are plenty of really good creatives out there. But I have lost count of how many cannot deliver great design with great service. They’re the ones we work with once. Service is an overused term. The team at Reform has survived awkward briefs, unrealistic deadlines, (really) late amends, and even fire to deliver a genuine service that makes all the difference to their strong, effective creative offer. They don’t switch on the Mac until they understand the brief and us as a client and that adds real value, as does the number of design solutions they often present. They don’t do everything we ask without question, which is good because we don’t have all the answers. Instead Reform offers clear, insightful advice that makes our branding and marketing better. Let’s be clear, I’m not recommending them as a just safe pair of hands. I’m sure as a creative studio, they’d hate that. I’m saying that Reform don’t just come up with great design work, they produce work that delivers to our objectives in a professionally managed way that drives our projects forward.
Natalie Persoglio, Marketing Manager
We, at Pyramid and Parr Hall, have worked alongside Reform Creative for a number of years across a host of branding, communication and marketing campaigns. We have always been extremely happy to work with Reform; they’re like an indispensable part of the team!
The freshness and vibrancy of their ideas is second to none and they have never failed to develop ideas that are light years ahead of the competition. The team at Reform has been a key part of the Pyramid Parr Hall branding, through brochure design / logo development, etc, and helped to put the venues on the map and support our marketing and communication strategy to the last letter. They are pleasant, fun, easy to work with and are unafraid to go the extra mile in terms of ideas and support.
We would have no hesitation in recommending Reform Creative to other individuals and organisations. If you’re looking for an agency with style, creativity, flexibility, reliability and added value - Reform is the one for you!
Cilla Baynes, Director
Reform has worked for CAN as the principle agency for the company’s publicity. This has included a wide range of design briefs including flyers, posters, new corporate identity, publications, calendars and annual reports. They have always been the designer of choice for all artists and producers working with the company. Reform has been responsible for creating and maintaining an extremely high standard of publicity design and materials for the company. They are very good conceptual designers, equally at home developing design briefs from initial ideas with people, through to being given briefs that they can effectively develop on their own. One of the reasons why Reform has been retained as the company’s key designer is that they are sensitive to the culturally diverse design needs of our client groups and employees. The agency is able to create work that is both non tokenistic, representative and appealing in a contemporary urban context. This is crucial to the successful promotion of the company and its work. The Reform team have very good ideas, are highly creative and a lateral thinkers. They are also an extremely pleasant people to work with.
John Holt, Founder
I was aware of Reform through their excellent work with the Manchester based British-Asian arts organisation, Shisha. We approached Reform to design some booklets some time ago and we were very pleased with the results. I like Reform’s sensitivity to understand and represent the ethos of AIM. Paul Heaton, Reform’s creative director is always aware of the sensitivity to representation of issues arising from the field of the arts and mental well being and has consulted and worked with us in the important matter of distinct and individual imaging of our core values.
Hazel Carter-Showell, Managing Director
I genuinely enjoyed working with Reform, the quality of their work is fantastic and it is hard to match their creativity and ability to deliver tangible, beautiful results from even the vaguest brief. They have an exquisite sense of aesthetic and a strong design ethos - I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend them.
Nicola Pike, Head of Marketing
Paul and the team at Reform always come up with highly creative but practical ideas. The quality of their work is second to none and I would not hesitate in recommending them as an agency.
Bénédict Windle, Owner
I genuinely enjoyed working with Reform, the quality of their work is fantastic and it is hard to match their creativity and ability to deliver tangible, beautiful results from even the vaguest brief. They have an exquisite sense of aesthetic and a strong design ethos - I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend them.
Qasim Riza Shaheen, Artistic Director
Shaheen said of Reform after the agency had completed the second in a line of publications, “My first publication that Reform designed was a wonderfully outstanding piece of print. Every page was carefully considered with a real commitment to detail. Reform is receptive to my artistic practice and we had a mutual understanding of what was to be conveyed. This is why I had no hesitation in returning to Reform for my second publication and indeed will for future design work. We have, yet again, produced a beautiful vessel in which to hold my work.
Abigail Gilmore
Reform is the "real mcoy" in terms of giving fantastic customer service, prompt and articulate responses to briefs and extremely high quality design - a genuine pleasure to work with.
Yvonne Shelton
Paul is both awesome and approachable, very talented and extremely professional - He is like gold dust and will upgrade the profile of anyone’s company as he did with Urban Voice
Frank Collins
Design Initiative worked with Paul Heaton and his team at Reform Creative on a number of projects. In 2005, Reform devised a very creative solution to promote our Make Me exhibition and selling event in Manchester. It was a delight to work with Reform on this project and he and his team were often prepared to go the extra mile in order to ensure that the promotional materials for the project were completed on time and to a high standard. Design Initiative has no hesitation in recommending Reform to colleagues and clients in the sector seeking to work with a professional, reliable and creatively driven team.
Caroline Mayoh
Paul is great fun to work with. He listens carefully and generates some interesting ideas and concepts which bring ideas to life. His approach is professional, he delivers great results when he says he is going to deliver them keeping you informed of progress. He also supports you as he takes you along the Creative journey providing you with some interesting challenges along the way. I would definitely recommend his work to others and his approach, I have fully enjoyed my Creative journey and am excited with the results.