A short trip down the M42. Considered, quietly confident brand, web and print design for Solihull's professional firms, independent healthcare practices and corporate hospitality operators — the kind of work that holds up at a partner-level pitch.
Solihull's a quietly affluent business town with a high bar for craft and a low tolerance for noise. Most of our Solihull work has been with professional services, independent healthcare practices and corporate operators around the NEC corridor — clients who'd rather have one considered identity that lasts than three loud ones that don't.
Law, finance, property and management consultancy firms around Mell Square and Drury Lane need identity that's confident without shouting. We design for boardroom presentation, partner-level marketing and considered web.
Solihull has a real cluster of independent healthcare practices — dental, ophthalmology, physiotherapy, veterinary — that need to look credible and welcoming, not corporate.
The hotels, conference operators and corporate-hospitality businesses around the NEC corridor need on-brand collateral fast, and at print quality that survives a corporate AV setup.
Most of the work happens over video — same as it does for our clients in London, Bristol or Milan. But for Solihull 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 SolihullTwo 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 Solihull-area suppliers.
In SolihullWe'd had two pitches from large agencies who clearly didn't understand that 'quiet' wasn't us being indecisive. Nicolas was the first person who actually treated restraint as a brief. Six months in, two of our partners have separately said the new identity is the most considered work the firm has commissioned in twenty years.
A non-exhaustive list of Solihull districts we've shipped projects with clients in. Numbers shown are projects shipped, not active campaigns. If your part of the borough isn't listed, that's not a problem — we're 20 miles up the M42 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 20 miles from Solihull city centre — a 35-minute drive on the M42, or a 30-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 Solihull and the surrounding districts. Our recent work has been concentrated in the town centre, Shirley, Knowle and Dorridge — but we've shipped projects with clients in Hampton-in-Arden, Marston Green, Olton, Solihull Lodge, Cheswick Green, Hockley Heath, Balsall Common and Meriden too.
We also work regularly with clients in Birmingham, Coventry, Warwickshire and Nuneaton — all easy reach from the studio.
Same-day if needed, with reasonable notice. The M42 connects the studio to Solihull's printers and trade estates in 35 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 Solihull, the Hams Hall trade estate and the Birmingham Business Park. If your printer's local, we probably already know it.
Professional-services firms in the town centre and Drury Lane (law, finance, accountancy, management consultancy), independent healthcare practices (dental, ophthalmology, veterinary, physiotherapy) across Knowle, Dorridge and Shirley, corporate-hospitality and conference operators around the NEC corridor, and an increasing number of independent retailers and food-and-drink businesses in Touchwood, Mell Square and the village high streets.
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 Solihull 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 35-minute drive, a 30-minute train via Birmingham International, and a written response inside one working day — no travel mark-up, no sales call.