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Design studio · Margate

We make brands you cannot miss.

A design studio for businesses with something to say. Logo, print, signage and website — an identity that does some work for you.

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240+projects finished
12 yearsin business
60+clients on the books
The studio — a desk of printed proofs and colour swatch books The studio, off the harbour arm
What we do

From the first idea to the printed job

Everything visual in one place. You do not need five suppliers and four email chains.

Logo and brand identity

A brand with a character of its own — logo, colours, type and the guidelines that keep it consistent afterwards.

  • Logo
  • Brandbook
  • Rebranding

Print

Business cards, leaflets, catalogues and annual reports. Artwork prepared properly and press passed by us, not by the printer.

  • Business cards
  • Leaflets
  • Catalogues

Signage and banners

Shopfronts, vans, exhibition stands and large format. Signage that reads from the other side of the road.

  • Vehicle livery
  • Shopfronts
  • Roll-up

Social media

A look for Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn. Templates, campaigns and posts that hold still long enough to be read.

  • Templates
  • Campaigns
  • Reels grafika

Websites

Websites and shops that look right on a phone and that you can update yourself.

  • Web
  • E-shop
  • Landing page

Brand strategy

Before anything gets drawn we work out the direction — positioning, tone of voice, and the idea that sets you apart.

  • Positioning
  • Naming
  • Tone of voice
Selected work

Work we are pleased with

A cross-section of the last few years — start-ups and long-established names. Every job here is invented for this example.

Brand identity for a coffee roaster — cards, bags and menus laid out on a bench
Brand identity

Harbour Roastery

Full branding for a coffee roaster — logo, menus, packaging

Website and design system for a savings app, shown on a monitor
Web & UI

Ledger, a savings app

Website and design system for a savings app

Logo and labels for a herbal apothecary — bottles and boxes
Logo

Marigold Apothecary

A natural logo and label set

Shopfront porcelainTile for a gym — large format graphics on the glass
Signage & banners

Formline Fitness

Shopfront porcelainTile and banners

An Instagram campaign and templates shown on a phone beside printed cards
Social media

Atelier Nought

An Instagram campaign and templates

A furniture catalogue lying open beside colour swatches
Catalogue

Grainhouse Furniture

A 48-page product catalogue

Festival posters coming off a large format printer
Event branding

Colourfest

Festival identity, posters and merchandise

Vinyl livery on the side of a delivery van
Vehicle livery

Green Box Deliveries

Livery for the whole fleet

Chocolate bars in their printed wrappers
Packaging

Cacao House

Packaging for the premium range

A brand guidelines book lying open at the colour pages
Brandbook

Fleece brand guidelines

Brand guidelines and a design system

Who we are

A small studio with big ideas

Harbour Lane Studio started in 2013 in a former net loft off the harbour in Margate. We are designers, an illustrator and a strategist, held together by liking the craft of it and by not being frightened of an odd idea.

You deal with us directly. The person you talk to is the person doing the work, and there is no account layer in between.

NerveWe are not frightened of a bold answer
CraftThe detail is the difference
Straight dealingClear prices and clear dates
The founder and art director at her desk
Founder & art directorFounder and art director
A designer working at a layout
DesignerDesigner and brand designer
The illustrator drawing at a light board
IllustratorIllustration and hand lettering
The web designer at two screens
Web designerWeb design & front-end
No client quotes here

Three things to settle before you pay a deposit

Ask us, and ask anybody else you are getting a quote from.

Ask who owns the artwork at the end. Copyright in a logo stays with the designer unless it is assigned to you in writing. Get that assignment named in the quote, not promised in an email.
Ask what a logo price actually includes. One file or a full set? Guidelines or not? Fonts licensed to you or to the studio? The gap between those two answers is usually the gap between two quotes.
Ask who checks the printing. Artwork that looks right on screen can still come back off the press with the wrong black or a crooked trim. Ask whether somebody goes to press pass it, and whether that is in the price.
Get in touch

Let us get your project moving

Send us a few lines about what you need. We come back by the second working day with what we would do next.

Address
32 Fort Road
Margate, Kent CT9 1HF
Phone
01632 960137
Email
hello@harbourlanestudio.co.uk
Open
Mon–Fri · 9am–5pm
The studio door in a brick building on Fort Road in Margate You will find us at 32 Fort Road, Margate

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