Half an hour up the M6 from our Nuneaton studio. Brand, web, packaging and print design for Birmingham businesses ready to look like more than another logo on Colmore Row.
Birmingham's an interesting design city right now — the Jewellery Quarter's heritage trades sit a mile from Digbeth's creative scene, and most of the city's small bold brands need work that bridges both worlds without flattening either.
The Jewellery Quarter is full of small independent makers and the Digbeth creative quarter is full of design-minded businesses — both need work that's confident at small scale and quietly distinctive.
Moseley, Kings Heath and Stirchley have more interesting independent food and drink briefs per square mile than most of the city centre — coffee, bread, beer, small plates, and the brands that hold them together.
The Colmore Row and Edmund Street professional cluster — law, finance, property — needs work that's quietly confident, not loud. Identity that holds up in a planning hearing or a partner-level pitch.
Most of the work happens over video — same as it does for our clients in London, Bristol or Milan. But for Birmingham briefs there are four moments where we'll always come to you in person, included in the quote at no mark-up.
A 90-minute discovery session at your office, café, studio or building site — wherever the work actually lives.
In BirminghamTwo design directions presented and worked through over Zoom or Meet — usually 60–90 minutes, recorded and shared.
VideoDesigns refined and shared async via Figma and PDFs. Two scheduled review calls; ad-hoc questions handled within the working day.
Async / videoWe attend the press-check for print and packaging work, or run a handover session at your office for digital projects — at no charge for Birmingham-area suppliers.
In BirminghamWe'd talked to two Birmingham agencies and a London one before someone at the Jewellery Quarter coworking sent us to Nicolas. The 25-mile drive made him feel further away on paper but closer in practice — he was here for the kickoff, here for the press-check, and the work landed first time.
A non-exhaustive list of Birmingham districts we've shipped projects with clients in. Numbers shown are projects shipped, not active campaigns. If your part of the city isn't listed, that's not a problem — we're 25 miles up the M6 either way.
If yours isn't here, drop us a note at projects@saint-nicolas.co.uk — written response inside one working day.
Yes. Our studio is 25 miles from Birmingham city centre — a 50-minute drive on the M6, or a 35-minute train ride. We'll come to you for the kickoff and any decisive sessions (press-checks, brand reveals, launch reviews) at no additional charge.
Day-to-day work runs over video, which keeps the budget on the design and not the travel. If you'd rather meet at the studio in Nuneaton, that's an open invitation — we've got coffee, a long table, and a wall to print work onto.
All of Birmingham and the surrounding districts. Our recent work has been concentrated in the Jewellery Quarter, Digbeth, Moseley and Stirchley — but we've shipped projects with clients in Kings Heath, Harborne, Edgbaston, Bournville, Erdington, Selly Oak, Sutton Coldfield, Hall Green and Northfield too.
We also work regularly with clients in Solihull, Coventry, Warwickshire, Rugby and Leicester — all easy reach from the studio.
Same-day if needed, with reasonable notice. The M6 connects the studio to Birmingham's printers and trade estates in 50 minutes off-peak; the train is faster than driving in rush hour.
We attend press-checks for print and packaging projects as standard, and proof sign-offs at suppliers in Birmingham, the Aston print cluster and the Hams Hall trade estate. If your printer's local, we probably already know it.
Independent food and drink (roasteries, bakeries, breweries, small-plates restaurants), independent publishers and presses in the Jewellery Quarter, design-led small businesses across Digbeth, southern-arc independents in Moseley, Kings Heath and Stirchley, professional-services firms in the Colmore Row cluster, and a growing list of arts and music organisations across the city.
We work across nine design disciplines — brand, web, packaging, print, editorial and social — and most projects combine two or three. Browse the full portfolio for examples by discipline.
Same as anywhere — every project is quoted bespoke against scope, complexity and turnaround, with a written estimate before any work starts.
No travel mark-up for Birmingham projects: we're close enough that on-site sessions don't change the brief. We don't publish day rates or package prices because every brief is genuinely different, and a fair quote needs context. Send us a brief or just a paragraph about what you're trying to do and we'll come back within one working day.
A 50-minute drive, a 35-minute train, and a written response inside one working day — no travel mark-up, no sales call.