Updates & perspectives from the studio
25.11.25
A new identity for Kobean Coffee Roasters
We’ve been working closely with Kobean, a company specialising in ‘interesting, rare and experimental’ micro-lots. to produce a refreshed identity, merch and packaging.
20.11.25
TALREOS given updated brand look ahead of the latest Chicago summit in 2026
As part of our ongoing relationship with the Center on Law, Business, and Economics (Northwestern University) and the Workforce Reporting Consortium, we have evolved and refreshed the TALREOS (Talent Analytics Leadership Roundtable Economic Mobility Summit) identity for 2026.
18.11.25
Enhancing real-world insight for medication AI platform Arine
We were tasked with refining and refreshing the Arine identity and its wider brand kit of parts, ensuring the system more clearly reflected the company’s vision and positioning as a medical AI platform.
Arine applies advanced intelligence to the complexities of medication management, supporting clinicians with clearer, faster and more informed decisions across real-world care settings. Our work focused on sharpening how this intelligence is expressed – bringing greater clarity, coherence and confidence to a brand built to operate at the intersection of clinical rigour, technology and human impact.
09.10.25
Bringing clarity to complexity – evolving the Valid Insight brand
We partnered with Valid Insight, part of Bioscript Group, to evolve the brand and better reflect the clarity and rigour of their work. The project spanned an evolution of the core brand kit of parts, alongside support and guidance on implementation.
20.11.25
Key visuals for the eighth Colony location in King Street, Manchester
As part of our ongoing relationship with Colony, we created a set of key visuals for their next space on King Street, Manchester – shaping a distinct look and feel while remaining connected to the master identity.
08.09.25
Continuing the partnership with Float Along Festival for 2025
Now in its fifth year, we partnered once again with Float Along Festival in Sheffield, developing a cohesive set of assets across social, a brewery collaboration, on-screen visuals and merchandise to support the festival across physical and digital touchpoints.
22.10.25
Building on the foundations set as Bioscript Group evolves
We originally evolved the Bioscript identity in 2020. As the organisation grew through the acquisition of specialist businesses, becoming Bioscript Group, there was a need for the brand to better reflect the scale, structure and strategic breadth of the work it delivers. Our role focused on defining a flexible design system aligned to specialist sectors and organisational hierarchy, allowing the group to communicate with clarity while retaining cohesion. The work culminated in comprehensive brand guidelines, alongside white papers, presentations and a refreshed website – supporting Bioscript Group’s continued growth and complexity.
18.10.25
Civic pride: shaping a new heart for Wythenshawe
As part of our ongoing relationship with Muse and Manchester City Council, we are working across the wider 15-year regeneration of Wythenshawe Town Centre, supporting planning, consultation and place-making activity alongside the creation of the Civic identity. Civic brings together a new food hall, workspaces and a cultural hub at the heart of the town. Work is ongoing as the area continues to be transformed, with new public realm, workplaces and cultural spaces shaping the future of the centre.
13.10.25
Activating Wythenshawe: the first step in a wider transformation
Working with local artist Andy Wolfenden, the project culminated in a large-scale floor mural designed to encourage engagement and mark the beginning of change within Wythenshawe Town Centre.
09.09.15
An identity built around the rhythm of the game for Padel–AS
It’s always enjoyable to work on something a little different. Working with Padel–AS, we created a new identity and supporting kit of parts that reflect the energy of the game and the culture around it.
16.09.25
ENSEMBLE incubator week (part one)
We recently took a week out from client work and focussed purely on self initiated projects in areas that we see opportunities for new products or processes.
The week was about creative freedom, challenging ourselves and each other, and taking the time to wander down untrodden avenues, both conceptually and functionally. Exploring the role that various technologies can play in augmenting existing skills and knowledge, to open the door to bigger and better solutions.
03.08.25
IdN Magazine: Identity, branding & key visuals feature
We have been featured in the internationally renowned IdN Magazine, showcasing our work for Colony, Jordan Armstrong Photography, Peelers Yard and Blackjack Brew Co.
25.06.25
Illuminating new realities of the world’s fastest GTM platform
Apollo is a comprehensive, AI-powered sales platform designed to help businesses find and engage leads, automate outreach, manage deals and enhance data – all within a single system. With a B2B database of over 210 million contacts and 35 million companies, Apollo enables organisations of all sizes to realise their market potential with clarity and precision.
We partnered with Apollo across identity and product. This included brand positioning, identity and the articulation of a suite of product identities – supported by a unified design system, motion principles and illustration language.
17.05.25
Setting the standards for workforce data with Chicago Northwestern School of Law
We recently completed a programme of work for the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law in Chicago, to help standardise human capital reporting in the workplace.
Whilst still in its infancy, the Workforce Reporting Consortium (WorRC) is collaborating with global businesses across the US with the aim of establishing a consistent, equitable framework for workforce disclosure. Our involvement spanned naming, brand development, and the implementation of the first standardised workforce reporting principles.
27.03.25
15.09.24
Belong here: A new vision for Prestwich
Training Ground Guru launches new identity at TGG Live
After multiple rounds of consultation, our work supporting Muse and Bury Council for the regeneration of Prestwich Village has received approval, with the first phase of development set to begin shortly. Initiated in early 2022, the project centred around ‘Your Prestwich’ – a community-led consultation programme that celebrated the area’s vibrant character and gave local voices a meaningful role in shaping the future of the village.
We recently completed the first phase of work covering brand and website refresh and for Training Ground Guru. This was launched at the annual TGG Live conference, which brings together some of the leading figures in elite football for two days of insights and networking.
13.02.25
Activating campus life at Republic through two new social hubs
At Republic Education Campus, we created two spin-off identities to support and activate new social spaces at the heart of their campus offer.
The Common Room was designed as an open, inclusive space – a place for connection between students, staff and the wider community. Alongside it, The Canteen introduced a rolling programme of street food popups, which was expressed through a bold, direct DIY aesthetic.
25.05.25
Colony launches seventh site in Spring Gardens
We have been working with Colony to develop the look and feel for their seventh site in Manchester. Colony was our first client in 2017, when it was a sole site and a singular proposition. A lot has changed from that point, and we have continually developed and refined their core identity and sub-site identities through another period of growth and transformation. An eighth site will be joining later in 2025.
28.08.24
13.06.24
Revitalising Blackjack from the ground up through strange tales and fine ales
Introducing Junction, a new cafe, bar and restaurant at Manchester Central
Rooted firmly in Manchester, Ensemble and Blackjack have joined forces to uncover the untold tales of lost neighbourhood Angel Meadow, through a distinctive rebrand.
A firm favourite amongst the traditional Manchester scene, Blackjack needed a brand that aligned with their strengths, sitting perfectly between the traditional world of CAMRA pubs, with floral pump clips and metal tankards, and the increasingly saturated world of progressive craft beer.
Having worked with Manchester Central for a number of years, we were tasked to define a concept, name, and visual aesthetic for Junction, a new café, bar, restaurant, and social workspace housed under the iconic arch of the former railways station.
15.05.24
Working with Solana to establish a decentralised voice
Solana is one of the most powerful and performant layer one blockchains – fast, scalable, and developer-led. But with hyper growth came a challenge: how to bring consistency to the way the foundation presents the impact of the chain, without affecting the decentralisation that defines it.
We were invited by the Solana Foundation to help decipher their strategic vision and define a unifying proposition, a sentiment that could be celebrated by the very people that were forging the success of the network.
Through conversations with founders, engineers, and builders, we shaped a shared narrative that gave Labs, Foundation, and the wider network a collective lexicon. A framework that made space for difference – but moved everything forward, faster.
10.05.24
The New Republic: Working with Trilogy Property to shape a new type of education campus
We have been working with Republic as they shape the next era of education, helping evolve their visual and verbal tone across the physical campus and in print, digital, and campaign.
21.06.25
07.01.25
Summer campaign for The Great Northern Warehouse launches
Blackjack typeface featured in Brand New’s ‘Best in Type 2024’
We recently delivered a summer campaign for Great Northern Warehouse – promoting the melting pot of venues where you skate, play, bowl, axe-throw, eat and drink. It’s the latest in an ongoing programme of work for the destination, following earlier activation on Deansgate Mews, updated wayfinding across the Warehouse, and ongoing consultation and social value input as the site begins a new phase of regeneration.
Our bespoke typeface for Blackjack named ‘Meadows’ was featured in Brand New’s ‘Best type in 2024’. It’s great to see our Manchester inspired typeface sat amongst others from the likes of OMSE, Koto, Collins and Gretel.
15.09.24
Aimo, harnessing AI to enable a deeper human understanding
We recently partnered with the team behind Aimo, a new kind of market research platform across naming and brand creation.
Aimo conducts qualitative research at scale, turning the results into structured, searchable data. The result is a tool that helps organisations listen more carefully, learn more quickly, and make decisions with greater confidence.
01.06.25
Everyone loves a character: Typefaces from the studio
Creating bespoke type is something inherent to the studio – whether it’s built for a client, driven by a project that needs a tailored approach, or simply to scratch a self-initiated itch. A few of the ones that made it to the finish line are available to download, free for non-commercial use.
