P190// GRAPHIC DESIGN // DERBYCOVERAGE // DERBY + DERBYSHIRE

Graphic Design in Derby, Derbyshire

In a city with this much choice, a brand has to be consistent just to get remembered, whether you’re an independent on Sadler Gate or an office out at Pride Park. If yours isn’t, I’ll fix it. I do logo design and branding for Derby businesses from Belper, eight miles up the A6.

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Who does logo design and branding in Derby?

North Bear Media does. Norton Hunt runs it from Belper, about eight miles up the A6, and does logo design and branding for Derby businesses, from independents on Sadler Gate to offices at Pride Park, promotional graphics included. Design is a project, priced first, and the £295 Marketing MOT is the usual start.

Derby’s a proper city market, so somebody’s always comparing you with the next name on the list.

I’m in Belper, eight miles up the A6, so I come to your office or meet you for a coffee in the Cathedral Quarter.

A city means more competition and a lot more choice. A trade covering the suburbs, an independent on Sadler Gate, a firm in the Cathedral Quarter, an office at Pride Park, they’re all being weighed up against somebody else, and it happens before anybody picks up the phone.

So a brand here has to be recognisable everywhere it turns up, the van, the pull-up banner at an event, a proposal, a LinkedIn post, the sign on the door, and it has to say the same thing every time. With growing businesses the materials drift, so you end up with three versions of the logo knocking about and a different colour on the van to the one on the website. Getting it back to one version is usually the first job, and I’ll sort it.

I work across Derby and the suburbs, Mickleover and Allestree and round there, as well as the city centre and Pride Park.

FROM BELPER //About 8 miles up the A6
MEET //Your office, or a coffee in the Cathedral Quarter

So what happens if you want me to sort your branding out?

It’s a project. I find out what you need first and you get a price before anything starts, whether that’s a new logo or pulling a brand that’s drifted back into line.

For a bigger Derby firm the brief is often less about a new logo and more about keeping everything consistent. In practice that means templates, the banner and the proposal already laid out in your colours and fonts, so whoever does the next one only changes the words. That’s a solid project on its own, and I’d rather do that than redesign a logo that’s fine. You’ve got a business to run, so let me handle it.

If you’re not sure whether it’s the branding or something else, start with the MOT at £295. It looks at where you come up on Google and in ChatGPT, and puts two of your Derby competitors through the same checks. In a city, that comparison tells you a lot.

Separately from the design, there’s Found & Filmed, my standard monthly package, at £995 a month, rolling, with 30 days’ notice either way, so if it’s not working you stop. It’s about you being found on Google and in AI search, with me coming out to film once a quarter. A logo sits outside it as its own project, and you can have either one without the other.

START //The MOT, £295, with two competitors scored
DESIGN //Scoped first, priced before it starts
TEMPLATES //Banners and proposals in your colours
MONTHLY //Found & Filmed, £995 a month, design’s separate

Ivy House, a care home in Mickleover.

I took these of the buildings and the gardens. A brochure or leaflet for somewhere people will visit needs the real place in it, not stock photos, because that’s what they’ll walk into. I’ve got the cameras and the design skills, so there’s nobody to hire and nothing to train.

Ivy House care home's red brick buildings and gardens, with benches and planters in autumn sunshine — PREMISES // Ivy House care home

Show me the work →

From a coffee in the Cathedral Quarter to files for everything.

This is the order it happens in, from start to finish.

01 //
A proper chat
Over a coffee in the Cathedral Quarter or on a call. I want to know who you’re up against and what the design has to do, and I keep the design jargon out of it.
02 //
Options
I design first concepts from that, whether it’s a logo or a whole identity, and you tell me which one feels right.
03 //
Refining
I refine the colours and the layout from what you say, and I’ll tell you straight if something isn’t working.
04 //
Files for everything
You get files for everything it’ll go on, from social posts to signage and vehicle wraps, and the brand guidelines to go with them.

Client view

“I needed a Company Logo designed and a Company Website built for my new Property Company, Industrial Warehaus Property Group Limited. … Extremely pleased with the Logo that Norton designed and the Website that he built!”

Common questions about graphic design in Derby.

How much does graphic design cost in Derby?

Graphic design in Derby is priced as a project once I understand what’s needed, so there isn’t a price list on here, and you get the price before anything starts. The Marketing MOT is a fixed £295 if you’d like an outside look first, and Found & Filmed at £995 a month doesn’t include design work, so design is priced on its own either way.

What design services do you offer?

Logo design and brand identities first, then marketing materials, social media graphics, print, signage and packaging. If you need something that isn’t on that list, ask me.

Do you do logo design in Derby?

Yes, I do logo design for Derby businesses, from the first concepts through to a complete brand identity, with guidelines that set out your colours and fonts. I designed the IWPG logo too. I’m based in Belper, eight miles away, so I meet you in Derby.

Can you design for print and digital?

Yes, I design for both, and the files come set up for wherever they’re going, whether that’s social media, your website, print, signage, clothing or vehicle wraps.

Do you do promotional graphics for Derby businesses?

Yes. I design promotional graphics such as posters, pull-up banners, event material and social media graphics, and I keep them in line with your brand so they all look like the same business. I did years of event graphics in live events production, and it’s priced as a project like the rest.

Are you a graphic design agency or a web design agency?

North Bear Media does both, as a small studio in Belper run by me, Norton Hunt. I do the design and web work myself, with a couple of remote specialists who help with some of the marketing, and there’s a separate page for web design in Derby.

Can we meet in Derby?

Yes. I’m in Belper, eight miles from Derby, and I’ll meet you at your office or over a coffee in the Cathedral Quarter.

Graphic design near Derby.

Duffield and Allestree are the nearest of these to Derby, with Ilkeston and Heanor out the other side.

The rest of the toolbox, in Derby.

The other pages for Derby businesses, including web design if that’s what you were after, the IWPG logo job, and the branding guide for small Derbyshire businesses if you’d like to read up first.

When somebody in Derby asks ChatGPT or Google for a firm like yours, do you come up, or the next name on the list?

The MOT starts with exactly that, and two of your Derby competitors go through the same checks, so if one of them comes up instead, you’ll see why. It’s £295, or book a call if you’d rather talk about the branding first.