Delivering Social Purpose – Part two
Here, at The Team, we believe Social Purpose is here to stay. In our two-part blog we look at the top tips on how to market brilliantly in a more Purposeful World. […]
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Delivering Social Purpose – Part one
Here, at The Team, we believe Purpose is here to stay. Just look at the momentum behind the B Corp movement, supporting companies in making business a force for good, including big […]
Brand evoked movements
The Team is proud to support the University of East Anglia’s Masters in Brand Leadership. To celebrate this year’s Future Brand Leaders we’re publishing a series of guest blogs to showcase the […]
Stop saying that other word! It’s time for “brand humanness”
The Team is proud to support the University of East Anglia’s Masters in Brand Leadership. To celebrate this year’s Future Brand Leaders we’re publishing a series of guest blogs to showcase the […]
Photographer Joel James Devlin lights up the highways in the skies for NATS brand refresh
“I shuffled out of a little hatch, on my own, on to a control tower balcony. Then the door shut behind me. I have a healthy respect for heights; keeping my mind […]
Gender parity is something we need to make happen at work and at play- Team Talk Event
Most people agree that gender parity is a good idea, but there is still a long way to go. Why? What’s really stopping us? Process? Or are we all inherently sexist? Across the month of […]
Dan Dufour joins The Team as Strategic Brand Director
The Team is delighted to announce the appointment of Dan Dufour as Strategic Brand Director. Dan joins the Borough Market based brand communications agency from Good Agency where he worked as Associate […]
The Team at Christmas: Creativity and Charity
The Team annual Christmas card is always an interesting challenge: How do we create something unique and festive, something which will engage our team, contacts and clients alike, plus raise money for […]
Jan Enkelmann – Serious Conviction: Photographs from Speakers’ Corner
After three years photographing the orators and hecklers at London’s Speakers Corner, Jan Enkelmann’s work will now to be showcased in a two-day exhibition at the Embassy Tea Gallery, hosted by The […]
English Heritage awards its strategic brand contract to The Team
As English Heritage moves into its new phase as a charity, The Team have been selected as its strategic brand partner. Our remit will be to provide brand guardianship and direction for […]
Our Digital Future: Connect with it, wear it, beware of it.
The challenge for communicators is to be aware of how big data can affect the lives of customers and employees positively. The challenge is to think in a big data mindset. Think that way, and solutions […]
The Team develops RESILIA™ brand identity
Commercially sensitive data and information is fundamental to business innovation and a precious and prized off balance sheet asset to any organization. It is also valued by a range of adversaries, and […]
What’s the point of Internal Communications?
Internal communications goes by different names and is described in different ways. Employee communications, employee engagement, internal marketing, employee strategy, communications strategy…the list goes on. And what do we actually mean by […]
Stunning time-lapse footage
This is rather stunning time-lapse footage of Earth from the ISS. In 4K too, so should look amazing on larger 4K screens. Enjoy!
The Tokyo 2020 Olympic identity has been revealed
The Tokyo 2020 Olympic identity has been revealed, and it features a very bold T! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3s6fxIFTH0
News: Alzheimer’s Society Bolsters Agency Roster
Alzheimer’s Society has appointed The Team, to work with the Society on building a strong brand and communications platform to support ongoing strategic and appeals activity.
Thanks for making it real : Christmas 2014
The Team’s 2014 Christmas card campaign helps Southwark Foodbank purchase Christmas dinner hampers for families in need in the borough.
The Team at Christmas: ‘Let’s make it real’
The Team shares the idea behind this year’s Christmas card campaign, in aid of Southwark Foodbank.
23 top tips for better employee engagement
What it takes to make your employees feel valued. How do you energise your people, increase discretionary effort and maximise the resources dedicated to employee communications? Our 23 top tips on better […]
Royal Holloway University Rebrand : Discovering the beauty within
Nestled in the home counties, you may come across Royal Holloway. No, not the London suburb, or the infamous prison. Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, to give its full title, is a world-class university just outside Egham in Surrey. Opened in 1886 by self-made medicines millionaire philanthropist Thomas Holloway, the college was originally established as a learning institution for women at the suggestion of Holloway’s wife, Jane. The main Founder’s Building is impressive from the outset with its flamboyant pillars, turrets and towers inspired by Château Chambourd in the Loire valley.
Branding and marketing in foreign markets
When planning to expand your marketing activity to foreign markets, the more countries you target, the more complex things become. But that complexity is not equal across all marketing elements or locations. It’s important to know where things stay the same and where they can get more complicated.
The Team awarded DBA Design Effectiveness Award for internal communications
We are very pleased to announce that our work on the British Gas Simply Thankyou campaign was awarded last night for Design Effectiveness.
Creating a brand ready for social media – part 4
In the last of our joint series of four blogs on building and protecting your brand for social media, Scott McLean, managing director of our sister agency, Speed Communications, offers 10 top tips for protecting and enhancing your brand online.
How many hands does it take to make a warmer Christmas
The Team are supporting Bankside’s homeless this winter with gifts of warmth.
The Team re-brands the Civil Service Benevolent Fund as The Charity for Civil Servants
The Civil Service Benevolent Fund’s new name and brand identity developed by The Team has brought about dramatic improvements in engagement with civil servants looking for help. The Team won the work following a competitive pitch in February and was asked to review the identity of the charity – which last year celebrated its 126th anniversary – and to look at how to better reflect its purpose and future direction.
Helping Employees and Stakeholders Get Ready for the New Heathrow Terminal 2
Heathrow have turned to The Team to support their vision of ‘making every journey better’ by helping them to build stakeholder confidence whilst they are preparing for the opening of the new Terminal 2.
Creating a brand ready for social media – part 2
At the Information Standard event on Wednesday, Scott McClean from our sister agency Speed joined Peter Mills, to talk about how to build and protect your brand using social media. This is the second blog post following that talk and looks at how brands are using social media. The first, by Peter, discusses the issue of brands and branding and how social media can play a part in building a brand today.
Gas Safety Week Shortlisted for Initiative of the Year Award
The Team’s hard work on Gas Safety Week 2011 has paid off. Gas Safety Week, a week-long event that encourages consumers to take positive steps to make sure they heed gas safety advice before winter sets in. Gas Safe 2011 has been shortlisted for the H&V News Safety Initiative of the Year Award – essentially the industry’s Oscars! H&V News is the leading magazine for the heating, ventilation and air conditioning industry with a highly specialised audience. To win this award, the initiative must have had a significant contribution to health and/or safety in 2011. And the signs look good – Gas Safety Week 2011 was an intensive one week gas safety campaign that touched 80 million people through national and regional broadcasters. The Team are hard at work with Gas Safe Register planning repeat activity in 2012.
Jakob Nielsen announces Logica intranet as world leading
The Nielsen Norman Group has announced the world’s top 10 intranets, highlighting The Team’s and Logica’s work as world leading. The prestigious award, chosen by Jakob Nielsen and Kara Pernice, showcases the best intranets from around the world, focusing on design and usability. The Team has worked on Logica’s intranet since 2009, concentrating on engaging all Logica’s 41,000 employees worldwide.
Blinging Brilliant! No.3 in the DBA Effectiveness League Table
It’s a fact. Our clients want creative thinking. It’s another fact that they want to recognise a return on their investment through a professionally executed design strategy. And to some it’s a little known fact that The Team are ranked as No.3 in the Design Business Association Effectiveness Awards League Table. We call these awards our “Silver Bullets”. Others call them our bling! And as the only award scheme that uses commercial data as a key judging criteria, they are both prestigious and authoritative.