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About Impact Media Design

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Impact are an Essex based design studio that was launched in 2003 by brothers James and Martin Coates with the vision to apply their various skills, experience and creativity to any web, branding, design or marketing project.

With a Nationwide client-base spanning both the private and public sector, Impact’s contribution to growing businesses and brands has won a number of awards and helped sustain strong on-going client relationships.

Fuelled by coffee and the love for what we do, our creative team are passionate and committed in our approach to delivering beautiful design from print to pixels.

Impact Media Design Branded Mouse Mat some random facts about impact
  • 8 full & part time staff
  • won 6 awards to date
  • we have 2 Martin's & 2 James'
  • we love drinking coffee
  • we have a 7-a-side football team
  • we sponsor our local team The Gulls
  • we have served over 200 clients
  • our studio is on an island
our design process
  • Design Process - Brief brief
  • Design Process - Discover discover
  • Design Process - Plan plan
  • Design Process - Create create
  • Design Process - Review review
  • Design Process - Develop develop
  • Design Process - Deliver deliver
  • Design Process - Respond respond

Every project we undertake starts with a solid brief. To make your project a success we need to understand your business' objectives and manage your expectations.

We have descriptive brief forms available on our website, to make the process easier for both parties.

We learn more about your project, your goals and your business. The more we understand in this stage, the better the ideas become in the planning stage.

Once we fully understand the brief and the project goals, we begin sourcing a design solution, whether this is mapping out a website wireframe, creating a mood board or drafting concepts for a logo design. Most of the planning stage is carried out on paper with lots of scribbles.

This is where the project becomes fully hands on, where concepts from the planning stage are implemented on screen.

This part of the project involves you. This is where you provide your feedback on the created designs / concepts.

Listening to your thoughts and feedback, we then develop the designs. This could then move the project into the next stages whether this is developing logo concepts or implementing code for a website.

Once the project has been given the sign-off. Your project is ready to launch. We provide final concepts, send artwork to print or publish your design.

We want to know what you think of the finished project, and what you thought of us. We always like to better ourselves.