Our design
ethos & mission.

We strive to be a socially responsible agency, working with ethical clients. This includes some of the biggest names in conservation, to create work that truly matters.

But we’re more than just an agency — we’re part of our community. Beyond design, we amplify voices in the arts through partnerships like Young Thugs, nurturing musicians and hosting gigs that inspire connection and culture. We dedicate our time and talents to founding and co-creating initiatives like Drawsome! Festival, York Design Week, and Wild York, celebrating creativity while championing important causes.

For us, it’s all about doing good work for good people and building a future we can all feel proud of.

Drawsome festival 2021, band playing at Spark York

Community Projects

  • Drawsome! is an annual family friendly and accessible music and illustration festival in York, featuring live performances, creative workshops and exhibitions, aiming to bring people together around a shared love of the arts and celebrating emerging local talent as well as established national and international artists.

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  • York Design Week promotes a collaborative narrative for the city, fostering creativity to drive good change across public, private, and third sectors towards Zero Carbon City status with social justice at its core. Through interdisciplinary design events, we invite participants to reflect on our lifestyles, questioning the status quo and exploring positive alternatives.

  • We are partners in Young Thugs, a recording studio in York with community at its heart. Housed in a unique building, it's an inspirational space for making music, combining cutting edge digital recording technology with classic analogue equipment, as well as a hub for creative and community projects and events.

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  • Wild York is the collective identity of green spaces in York, beginning from a collaboration at York Design Week in 2021. This interactive map of existing projects is here to show what there is to enjoy, wild spaces, community gardens and orchards, scenic routes and well connected habitats. Many of these are thanks to the enthusiasm and effort of committed volunteers over decades. Mapping out the green space means we can also see what’s missing, and shows the foundation to add to as we design our city together.

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Events & Exhibitions

We support local artists by organizing regular exhibitions at Angel on the Green, giving them a platform to showcase and sell their work in a welcoming community environment. We also help organise live music and arts events at Young Thugs, including BBC Introducing: Welcome to the North and other gigs.Get in touch if you’d like to discuss exhibiting your work.

Conservation organisations we work with

  • Working with dogeatcog has been a pleasure, their creativity and professionalism have helped to shape an identity for our new arts space that reflects our vision and will resonate with the community we serve. their work will present exciting cultural opportunities to the community, and we’re excited to continue collaborating with them.

    Aaron Cann, Up for Yorkshire

Carbon offsetting

Since 2021 we have been offsetting our carbon emissions by planting trees through Ecologi. So far we have helped to plant over 750 trees.

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