Since 2006, Matt has been working as Sprout Designs, a multidisciplinary design collective. Sprout has changed and evolved since its formation in 2006 initially set up by freelance designers looking to showcase their skills and build their portfolio, this work has changed as have the members. Still headed by Matt Hull, Sprout has been re-formed and re-focused as Craft Graphic, offering a bespoke design service, and digital design products.
Find out more about our exciting change, and visit our new website
Brand is the perception of the company in the eyes of the world. Branding involves the marketing practice of actively shaping a distinctive brand. Whether you are looking to rebrand, or are a new company looking to create your image, our experience in Brand creation and management can help create a lasting identity.
Website & CMS Design
Designing, building, and managing clean, easy to use websites to suit the needs of your business. From HTML/CSS sites to Bespoke Content Management System solutions. We are designers first, developers and coders and can realise a wide range of website solutions for your project.
Font & Type Design
Building custom Fonts for companies, individuals, and brands. Typography is our passion, and has lead to a whole area of our business and many interesting projects. We will soon be releasing a seleciton of fonts available to buy through our site, along with focussing to offer bespoke designs for branding and packaging.
Search Engine Optimisation
We see large agencies charge over-priced rates for search marketing services that the small to medium business owner can’t always afford, or doen’t even need. This has left small to medium enterprises (SMEs) at a clear disadvantage when it comes to profiting and promoting on the web.
Our Work
A small selection of our work can now be seen on our new website www.craftgraphic.com
Libero
Custom Font Design
Amazing Wonders
Brand and Book Design
Virtual Events
Identity | Branding | Website | SEO
Appeals Service
Branding | Website Design | Development
Lesnes Abbey Woods
Branding Design
Property in Mijas
Branding | Design | Development | SEO
About Us
Sprout Studio provides creative solutions for print and web. A personal service and a bespoke solution for your project.
Matt Hull
Founder and Designer
Sprout Studio is a creative company representing the work of Matt Hull, creative designer based in Brighton, Sussex.
As a designer, I have worked on a wide variety of projects, from branding identity, website design/development, logo design, marketing campaigns, and so much more.
Since 2006, I have been working in under Sprout Studio and Sprout Designs creating Graphic design solutions for Print and Web. I work with local companies on identity, branding, website design and marketing material to help shape their vision and build their company. I relish a challenge and enjoy finding a creative solution for the most exciting projects.
I am an individual and offer an individual, bespoke service. Listening to what my clients require and do my best to supply a bespoke solution. I'm always interested in meeting new clients or fellow designers and chatting over a coffee.
Michael Hutton
SEO Expert
Michael has worked in the online marketing industry for many years, and witnessed a lack of services and support for small business. His passion is to help others understand and succeed in online marketing, and led to starting his own business focusing on this particular niche. "My goal is to simplify the complex world of Internet marketing, making it easy to understand and more accessible to small and medium sized business."
Virginia Valli
Consultant
Virginia has an eye for composition, and a heart for colour. Working on an ad-hoc basis, she along with other freelancers are brought in for projects when they are needed.
In addition to Virginia, we also work with a network of Developers, Copywriters, Photographers as part of wider and larger projects, and together we can quote on projects of varying sizes.
An adaptable team for the project.
Tintin
Mascot
Tintin is our mascot, and frequently helps in a project by sitting on important artwork, walking across the keyboard and popping up on client Skype calls to remind us all to not be so serious.
With 7 years experience as a cat, he has been a frequent collaborator, sitting on or near the work desk on late night deadlines and a constant support when working from home.
Our Clients
Proud to be working with a diverse range of clients
"Sprout Studio are a pleasure to work with. They have carefully understood our marketing needs, produced refreshingly good designs with accuracy, always on time and within budget. We simply couldn’t ask for more and look forward to awarding our next project to Sprout Studio"
Simon Miller
CEO of Datamotion Ltd
“Sprout Studio was very professional in their approach and more importantly for us spent time understanding our business, our customers and our emerging and potential markets. I have no problem recommending Sprout Studio to any potential clients they may have.”
Derrick Bilsby
Director of ITAL Group Ltd
"We were delighted we choose Sprout Designs to create all our branding, book designs and complete imagery for Amazing Wonders. They helped us every step of the way to create the excellence we hoped for and more…"
Managing Director
Amazing Wonders
"When your company sells to over 15 countries in over 12 languages, the design, graphics, marketing, filming, web site and management of digital information tracking is complicated and yet crucial to find buyers for our homes and villas in southern Spain. Sprout Design have managed all this for us extremely well and quickly over the last 5 years. They have driven no sales from the web to over 40% last year and are on target to increase sales more this year. We highly recommend the Sprout team who are truly professional and yet a pleasure to work with."
Anthony Smee
Property in Mijas
Libero Font Design
Client: Publicis London
Category: Font Design | Typography | Lettering
Custom font built for Publicis London as part of their client campaign Libero
We are very proud to be approached by Publicis London to design a custom version of our most popular font incision
The Incision Typeface is a cutout font initially released in 2013 and has been used on many books, magazines and particularly popular for packaging
The mixture of cut letters in both upper and lowercase simple in structure has since been built into a full weight family
Publicis London approached thrift and thistle to design a custom version solely for the use of their client libero
The brief required
Custom version
Refined letters
Uppercase
Over 259 characters with multilingual support Greek
Continued support and growth to support wider font sets and language requirements
Built in 6 weeks to meet the deadline of the brand
The custom typeface has been used for packaging, billboards, website promotion, onscreen graphics and has been released worldwide
This work has led to many other custom typeface projects for brands and companies looking to build a voice and personality through a typeface and develop their brand in a unique way
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“We are very happy with the work Sprout Studio has done for us, and will continue to work with them again on further typography and font work we may commission for projects.
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Publicis London
Commissioned work
Amazing Wonders
Client: Amazing Wonders
Category: Publication Design | Branding | Identity | Book Design
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“We were delighted we choose Sprout Designs to create all our branding, book designs and complete imagery for Amazing Wonders. They helped us every step of the way to create the excellence we hoped for and more…”
Simon Miller
Founder of Amazing Wonders
Virtual Events
Client: Virtual Events Ltd
Category: Identity | Branding | Marketing | SEO
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“Sprout Studio's branding, website design and marketing, and their ongoing consistent support is integral to our business. As a direct result of their work we have won new business and continue to drive new sales”
Liam Peake
Director of Virtual Events
Appeals Service
Client: Appeal Service
Category: Identity | Branding | Development
Appeals service is....
Problem
Our work
Working alongside in house developers
Custom front end payment website
Built on accessibility standards
Re think of the payment process
Working with the appeals team to simplify the process for appealing
Custom photography working with (photographer)
Responsive website
Built on Twitter bootstrap
New branding, identity and standards
Working with tfl, cross country and other train networks
This in depth project involved looking at the wider goals of the appeals service with the aim to lead the market and simplify the process of appeals where this varied widely across the different train operators such as tfl virgin chilrern having varying notices and appeal forms
A clear and easy step by step online process that could be followed on varying devices with ease and simplicity involved extensive research and working closely with the appeals team to understand issues and problems operators
Outcome
Simple to use site that has seen a major increase in the online appeals, and decrease in telephone and written appeals improving turnover and freeing up operators
The work with appeals service has led to further projects in design and branding with the other companies in the wider group
Testimonial
Derrick - above and beyond. Clear thinking to guide the project through stages and create a full hi end outcome
“Sprout Studio was very professional in their approach and more importantly for us spent time understanding our business, our customers and our emerging and potential markets. I have no problem recommending Sprout Studio to any potential clients they may have.”
Derrick Bilsby
Director of ITAL Group Ltd
Lesnes Abbey Woods
Client: London Borough of Bexley / Lesnes Abbey Woods
Category: Identity Design | Wayfinding | Branding
Branding Identity Design for the historic landscape in the London Borough of Bexley
The Lesnes Abbey Woods Enhancement Project is a £3.5million project to regenerate an historic landscape, set around the now ruins of Lesnes Abbey. The scheme is funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund for London Borough of Bexley.
Lesnes Abbey Woods approached Sprout Studio to:
Brief
Build a new brand for the park
Our Approach
Research into the Audioence
Build a personality for the park
Our Results
Working Closely with the local council team, and the international architects Meiloci responsible for creating amazing
the park as been transformed for the community and continues to be a
Meiloci collaborated with community groups and stakeholders to provide sustainable solutions to landscaping play and exercise areas, a bike track, interactive spaces such as the dipping ponds and areas of archeaological interest including the Chalk Pits and Monks Garden. The whole project is connected by educational and inspiring interpretation and wayfinding sympathetic to this historical landscape.
The identity for the park needed to reflect the rich historic elements of th perk, whilst work well to stay relevant to the audience and fit with the landscape.
The final design was put to committee and chosen by the public
"Sprout Studio supported us throughout the branding experience, learning about the history, scope and and building us a wonderful identity and supporting guidelines to keep our consistent style. We were really pleased with the outcome and it helps to shape a consistent message about Lesnes Abbey to the local community.
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Partnerships & Activities Manager
London Borough Of Bexley
Property in Mijas
Client: Puebla Aida Properties
Category: Identity | Branding | Website | SEO
Working with PIM since 2014
Providing:
* Identity
* Branding
* Website Design
* Custom CMS
* Ongoing SEO and Social Media Marketing
We worked closely with the team at Property in Mijas to build a new online portal for the beautiful Spanish Village. Working with the team we built a new Identity to represent this unique development built in a traditional Anadalusian Style, and to be easily recognised as the Tower at the centre of the village.
About
Puebla Aida is situated in….
Built in a traditional Anadalucian style, the unique properties boast stunning views across the
Behind the award winning Golfcourse
Mijas Properties – Luxury Villas & Apartments In Puebla Aida
Here at Property In Mijas, we have been selling Mijas properties in the form of high-quality villas and apartments in Mijas Pueblo, Costa del Sol for over 30 years, where we are the prime selling agent with detailed knowledge of each and every property for sale in Mijas and Puebla Aida.
Our beautiful, award-winning Puebla Aida development on Mijas Golf is like no other on the Costa del Sol, and with a selection of apartments and villas, we can help to find the ideal Mijas property for you, no matter what property type you are after.
Mijas Properties & Plots For Sale
We offer a wide selection of Mijas properties, including our gorgeous villas and plots of land for sale throughout the Mijas Pueblo and Cala De Mijas area. All our properties for sale in Mijas are available to view through our website. Please visit our site regularly to keep up-to-date with our list of featured properties in the beautiful Costa Del Sol, and for more information please consult: Properties In Mijas.
Problem
We were approached to help bring the Sales of Puebla aida onsite Agents a portal to
The current solution was outdated, and there was an opportunity to showcase the properties, villas and plots on site
Identity
Website
Marketing
SEO
Our work has extended
Testimonial
Notes
Include Video from website
Include
"When your company sells to over 15 countries in over 12 languages, the design, graphics, marketing, filming, web site and management of digital information tracking is complicated and yet crucial to find buyers for our homes and villas in southern Spain. Sprout Design have managed all this for us extremely well and quickly over the last 5 years. They have driven no sales from the web to over 40% last year and are on target to increase sales more this year. We highly recommend the Sprout team who are truly professional and yet a pleasure to work with.
"
Anthony Smee
Property in Mijas
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Name and occupation
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Demographic information such as location, IP address, preferences and interests
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What we do with the information we gather
We require this information to understand your needs and provide you with a better service, and in particular for the following reasons:
Internal record keeping, including storing a copy of any contact form submissions in our website database, storing a copy of any enquiries and email conversations on our server and locally on our computers and mobile devices, storing a copy in our cloud services, which includes Sage Business Cloud, Dropbox and MailChimp, for quotation, billing and project management purposes.
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We may periodically send promotional email about new products, special offers or other information which we think you may find interesting using the email address which you have provided if you have given us consent to do so.
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