About Simpkin Burley

Simpkin Burley is a Nottingham creative agency. We provide graphic design and branding solutions throughout the UK.

What We Do

Background

Simpkin Burley is a branding and graphic design agency based in Nottingham, UK. The business was set up in 2019 by Founder and Creative Director, Dan Simpkin. Dan brings a varied portfolio spanning over 15 years in the design industry. His background in architecture has brought techniques associated with the built environment to our creative process. This allows us to build your communications around your customers and create a seamless brand journey.

A Flexible Approach

Despite our youth as a practice, Simpkin Burley has a tried and tested flexible team to successfully deliver London agency quality without the associated cost. Our team can expand or contract to fit our clients’ needs. Along with our permanent studio-based creatives, we employ part-time and exclusive freelance specialists where necessary to deliver what our clients require at the same time as keeping overheads down.

What You Get When You Work With Simpkin Burley

Strategy for Growth

From household names to pre-startups, we are experienced in growing businesses through engaging branding and coherent design strategy. We provide unique creative services by combining our experiences with an in-depth approach.

Agile Support

We are your flexible design partners, identifying your core business messages and helping you achieve the results you want. Whether working as your agency partner or providing one-off campaign creative, our mission is to help you realise your ambitions.

Real-world Experience

Our experience gives us a unique approach in the way we target how people interact with brands. Customer journey strategies are at the core of our creative process, resulting in designs that are simple to navigate, both online and in the real world.

A Qualified Team

Along with hands-on experience in the corporate world, all of our designers hold a graphic design degree. This gives our clients the peace of mind that our creatives are qualified as well as being good at the work we do.

Dan Simpkin
Founder and Creative Director

Founder and Creative Director Dan Simpkin has over fifteen years experience in the design industry. As an Associate Director for international design firm Benoy, Dan has had extensive experience in leading design projects for large global corporations. He is also an award-winning, qualified graphic designer and mentors undergraduates at multiple UK universities.

In 2019 Dan set up Nottingham creative agency, Simpkin Burley. Since then, the studio has welcomed household names including Manchester Airport Group, Virgin Holidays, Strata Homes, Pell Frischmann and London City Airport. Dan has expert knowledge of delivering branding projects to a high standard on a large scale. In particular his talent for distilling complex messages into succinct communications is popular with all Simpkin Burley clients.