Dedicated Support
You work with a consistent client services and creative team who understand your organisation and coordinate every request.
DESIGN RETAINERS
Extra creative capacity, seamlessly connected.
Your team. Plus Speed.
Flexible design support that works alongside your in-house team. See how we can help ↓
More capacity. Broader expertise. Consistently strong creative at Speed.
Internal teams are often managing more campaigns, channels and requests than their available resource can comfortably deliver.
Speed provides flexible design retainers and ongoing creative support that fits around your existing team. We get to know your organisation, understand your brand and help you deliver consistently across every channel.
From everyday requirements to major campaigns, you gain access to an experienced team of designers, strategists, copywriters, animators, filmmakers and digital specialists.
Trusted by leading in-house teams.
We build long-term creative partnerships with internal marketing, communications and brand teams. Our retained clients gain dependable capacity, broader specialist expertise and a consistent agency team that understands their organisation.
Ongoing creative support for internal communications.
For more than a decade, we have worked alongside Compare the Market’s internal communications team, creating engaging, brand consistent communications for colleagues across the organisation.
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An established retained partnership.
We are Haskoning’s lead brand agency, providing ongoing strategic and creative expertise across brand development, employer branding, campaigns and wider communication requirements.
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Flexible creative capacity for an established brand.
We provide STAMFORD I AVK with ongoing creative support, adapting our expertise and resource around changing priorities, campaigns and business requirements across their global brand.
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Creative support that drives momentum
Overlapping campaigns, internal requests and unexpected deadlines can quickly stretch an in-house team.
A Speed design retainer gives you additional capacity without the time and permanent cost involved in expanding your internal team.
We can support you with:
– Campaign concepts and creative development
– Brand design and brand application
– Internal communications content
– Employer branding and recruitment campaigns
– Reports, presentations and corporate communications
– Digital advertising and social content
– Email campaigns and landing pages
– Print, invites, events and exhibition materials
– Motion graphics, animation and video
– Website and digital design support
Your retainer can focus on a defined service or provide access to our wider creative, video and digital team.
An extension of your in-house team
Every internal team operates differently, so we shape the relationship around your priorities, workflow and level of demand.
Flexible monthly capacity
Your agreed capacity can cover planned activity, fast-turnaround requirements and busier campaign periods, giving you support for everyday requests and bigger ambitions.
Clear priorities
We work with you to manage briefs, deadlines and monthly priorities, keeping delivery organised and transparent.
Wider specialist expertise
Your core creative team can bring in additional expertise across campaigns, employer brand, animation, video, digital and technology.
Brand consistency
We learn your guidelines, tone of voice and approval processes, helping every piece of communication feel connected and considered.
Why in-house teams work with Speed
Speed has worked with ambitious organisations across complex, technical and highly regulated sectors.
Our team is experienced in navigating established brands, multiple stakeholders and detailed approval processes while keeping ideas fresh and delivery moving.
Clients choose Speed for:
– Responsive and dependable delivery
– Senior creative thinking
– A collaborative working style
– Consistent teams and retained knowledge
– Integrated design, video and digital expertise
– The ability to manage everyday requirements and larger campaigns
We immerse ourselves quickly, communicate clearly and take responsibility for getting the work delivered.
A design retainer shaped around you.
The right structure depends on your workload, internal capabilities and the type of support you need.
Your retainer could provide:
Regular design support
A consistent level of monthly design and production capacity for ongoing marketing and communications.
Integrated campaign support
Creative thinking and delivery across campaigns, digital, print, motion graphics and video.
Embedded creative partnership
A closer extension of your internal team, with dedicated capacity, creative direction and ongoing strategic input.
We agree the priorities, people and working process upfront, creating a retained partnership that is easy to manage and ready to perform.
Preferential rates
Retained clients benefit from preferential rates compared with our standard project rate card, alongside a team that becomes increasingly familiar with your brand, priorities and ways of working.
FAQs
What can be included within a design retainer?
A retainer can include design, campaigns, internal communications, employer branding, presentations, reports, digital assets, animation, video and website support. We shape the scope around the work your team regularly needs.
Can Speed work alongside our existing in-house designers?
Yes. We regularly complement internal teams by adding capacity, specialist skills and an external creative perspective. We can support your designers directly or manage defined areas of work.
Will we work with the same people each month?
Yes. You will have a consistent client services and creative team who build their knowledge of your brand and organisation over time.
Can the level of support change?
We can review your requirements as priorities, campaigns and workloads develop. Larger projects can also be planned alongside your regular retained activity.
How are briefs and priorities managed?
We agree a straightforward briefing and prioritisation process with your team. This may include regular planning calls, a shared project management system and clear monthly capacity tracking.
Do retained clients receive preferential rates?
Yes. Our retained packages are offered at preferential rates compared with our standard project rate card, reflecting the continuity and longer-term nature of the partnership.
Do you also support one-off projects?
Yes. Retained clients can commission larger standalone projects when they need additional strategy, production or technical expertise.
Give your team more creative capacity and create momentum today.
