Successful place branding attracts and unites people around a shared story

A place brand lives in the minds of your audience. With places in competition, investing in a strong connection between people and your place is a commercial imperative, whether you manage a museum, building, neighbourhood or city.

We combine 20 years of experience with the power of creativity to create place brands that deliver measurable value.

Discovery

We have developed a proprietary discovery process that engages stakeholders and audiences and brings them along on the journey. Combined with our deep benchmarking data and closed-loop AI testing models, we build your brand on real foundations, not fads.

Naming

Beyond the challenge of coming up with a name that resonates with your place, product and audience, naming comes with trademarking, language and available digital estate considerations. We have named streets, rail lines and many places, and can guide you through the process to the best name.

Brand identity

Our award-winning place brand identity work is rooted in a cohesive visual and verbal expression of a place’s authentic character and purpose, creating recognition, trust, and emotional resonance to attract people, investment, and pride.

Place purpose

To describe the reason why some places are more successful than others, we originated the term ‘place purpose’ — the essential reason a place exists based on human-centred needs. We go beyond ‘live work play’ to create place brands that people want to join.

Place marketing

Based on robust KPIs and ROI, we provide full-service integrated place marketing campaigns for the strategic promotion of places to attract visitors, talent, investment, occupiers and residents. From content creation to digital amplification, we tailor campaigns to cut through and create meaningful engagement.

Placemaking

From fashion shows to podcasts to art installations, we create unexpected programmes to activate public spaces and bring them to life. Our placemaking initiatives reflect the identity, needs and aspirations of the community, building pride, belonging and emotional connection to place.

Work like this

DUMBO

Place brand

A different side of New York

The Round

Place brand

All together now

Thompson Center

Place brand

Ahead of the curve

The Ilisian

Place brand

Connecting you to Authentic Modern Athens

South Flats

Place brand

Vancouver’s imagination applied

North City

Place brand

The city creating a culture of possibilities

Mayfair Quarter

Place brand

Step into extraordinary

Florentia Village

Place brand

For the love of making

San Francisco city brand

Place brand

Make your place in the future

Woodbine

Place brand

Connecting Toronto to its biggest opportunity

Basingstoke city brand

Place brand

The city investing in happiness

One Fulton Market

Place brand

The Chicago destination that defined a neighborhood

The Acre

Place brand

A landmark of positivity

8 Bishopsgate

Place brand

A building for ideas

White City Place

Place brand

A new creative campus

Pier 70

Place brand

Made of San Francisco

The Manufactory

Place brand

Crafting the work of tomorrow

Silvertown

Place brand

An East London giant awakens

ARC

Place brand

A world network of science clusters

Edinburgh Park

Place brand

New ground for Scotland’s capital

Harwell

Place brand

A capital for UK science and innovation

Brent Cross Town

Place brand

Inventing a park town

The Post Building

Place brand

Architecture for ideas

Royal Docks

Place brand

Flying the flag for good growth

Broadgate

Place brand

Where innovation and finance play

Digbeth

Place brand

Birmingham’s creative neighbourhood

Television Centre

Place brand

Transforming the home of British television

St James’s

Place brand

The place that became a brand

Here East

Place brand

A disruptive brand for a new industry

Moorgate Exchange

Place brand

Modernising the City office