Richard was Brand Identity director of Allied International Designers,
one of Europe’s first multi disciplinary design consultancies,
before setting up and running Design Bridge in 1986. Having grown
the business to ninety people with a blue chip international client
list, he left and co founded Williams Murray Hamm.
Created as an ‘antidote to the formulaic brand design that
has become commonplace’, the company places a strong emphasis
on the commercial value of creativity and concentrates on working
with clients who either need to transform existing brands or create
new ones.
In seven years WMH has earned an international reputation for commercial
and creative excellence winning major awards at Design Week, New
York Festivals, Communication Arts, Type Directors, Clio, DBA International
Design Effectiveness and the coveted D&AD pencil. It was named
Design Agency of the Year last year by Marketing Magazine and was
twice featured in the Financial Times, sold out its recent lecture
at the Victoria &Albert Museum in London and was recently profiled
on CNN.
WMH is best-known for the rebranding of Hovis, which became the
country’s fastest growing grocery brand in 2003. The company
has just won the complete overhaul of Barclay’s Bank identity
and collateral material – its client list also includes Interbrew,
Unilever, Masterfoods, Nestle, United Biscuits, Carlsberg Sweden,
the Victoria &Albert Museum, and S Club 7!
A fellow of The Royal Society of Arts, the Chartered Society of
Designers, a member of D&AD and The Marketing Society, Richard
has contributed regularly to Design Week magazine and made appearances
on BBC News 24, BBC TV’s Wrappers as well as commentating
on design matters on Radio 4’s ‘Today’ programme.
His public speaking history covers Helsinki’s Ideas Day, Packaging
Magazine’s Chicago conference, The Swedish Marketing Society’s
‘Tendency Day’, D&AD’s education seminar and
Ashridge Management School’s Brand Champions Day
He lectures regularly at design colleges and sits on the external
advisory panel at Surrey Institute as well as training Unilever
and Kraft on making better use of design.
Throughout 2003, Richard was a consultant the Design Council’s
24/7 initiative, visiting manufacturing and marketing businesses
across the UK, interrogating their use of design and helping them
make better use of the discipline.
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