Not just a pretty face

Hello there we’re underscore. An award winning team of creative thinkers, branding experts and digital strategists. Nice to meet you.

Since 1999 we’ve been working with clients large and small to help them to connect better with their audiences. We do this online, offline and most things in-between.

We make an investment to understand how your brand thinks, what it will aspire to, and what will make it different.

From there we deliver a unique blend of tailored brand and digital solutions that we’ve developed over the last 13 years to turn insights into innovation, and form communities out of customers.

We call our approach “the thinking beneath the brand” and it gets consistent, fast acting and long lasting commercial results.

So to test our thinking why not get in touch. We’d love to put a face to the name.

Neil Stanhope

Managing Director

Sylvia Dunn

Financial Controller

Susie Anderson

Studio Director

Lucy Waudby

Senior Account Manager

Hannah Pick

Account Manager

Simon Stratford

Head of Digital

Alessio Lunghi

Senior Developer

Jay Campbell

Junior Web Designer

Andi Yanto

Senior Designer

Ollie Rone-Clarke

Middle Weight Designer

Will Asken

Designer

Mark Taylor

IT Manager

Some of our clients

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Engaging, colourful and educational interior graphics and leaflets were created for this international centre of excellence in child healthcare.

Tone of voice, layout guides and imagery advice to help inform and inspire customers about the quality of Tesco’s food...

Large format interior graphics for Swarovski’s London HQ gave a taste of the mountains to echo their Swiss heritage and the...

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Packaging, promotional items and Report & Accounts to reflect the vision and aspirations of the original, natural and ethical beauty...

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This global luxury skincare brand needed training materials and to create promotional and packaging ideas making ‘life more beautiful’ within...

Communications and brand support to launch the Elemis Day Spa which is now the leading luxury British spa and skincare...

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Packaging, point of sale and print to sell numerous ranges for the beauty brand that epitomises French elegance.

This series of polo events needed a brand identity and strategy to improve awareness and boost ticket and merchandise sales.

Brand reposition and comms to attract customers and hospitality bookings ahead of the Ashes series.

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This organisation needed an engaging brand to attract investors and help launch its vision of delivering free strategy and advice...

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Global requirements in print and online to assist with investment sales and the clients’ own brand promotion.

Identity and launch platform to generate investment for a Welsh learning Academy with a ‘person centred learning approach’.

Undervalued? Join our team

Middle weight PHP 5 Web Developer

We are looking for a Middle weight developer with experience of plugin development with WordPress to work across a diverse range of projects. Hand coding sites in HTML and CSS should be second nature to you.

Essential experience:

WordPress Development (themes, plugins)
PHP 5+
MySQL
Javascript (including JQuery)
CSS
HTML
M/LAMP

Experience with the following advantageous:

Mac/Linux User
Unix Command Line
Subversion
apache webserver

The desired candidate must have a demonstrable passion for emerging web technologies, and be working either as part of a team or independently. Please email: jobs@underscore.co.uk.

No agencies please.

Front end developer

We need someone who can produce good, clean, cross browser HTML, CSS, and Javascript. If you have at least 2 years commercial experience covering WordPress plugin and theme development and hand coding sites from photoshop into HTML and CSS then we need to talk.

Essential experience:

PHP
MySQL
HTML (HTML5 is a bonus)
CSS (CSS3 is a bonus)
JQuery
Cross-Browser/Cross-Platform Development
WordPress
Some knowledge of Apache & Linux

Experience with the following advantageous:

CSS3 Polyfills
CSS Grids
Progressive Enhancement/Graceful Degradation
Responsive Web Design
SEO Basics

To be part of an accomplished and growing team please email: jobs@underscore.co.uk.

No agencies please.

Interested in working together?

If you think underscore might be a good fit for a project you’re planning, please feel free to send us your brief and we’ll get back to you as soon as possible.