Hand crafted brands with personality

We are a Berkshire-based design agency specialising in bespoke WordPress websites. Our rich portfolio of design services is supported by years of proven brand development experience. We work with clients from a broad cross-section of market sectors, including creative, retail, charity, fintech, music, transport, property and entertainment throughout the UK and Europe.

We also provide WordPress website build, project management and consultancy to other creative and marketing agencies, working as an extension to your in-house team.

We are a Berkshire-based design agency

We create bold and compelling brands, online strategies, innovative websites, engaging animations and beautiful graphic design work. We focus on user experience, putting your customer’s needs and goals at the heart of everything we do.

Website Design

With over 20 years of global expertise, Colab delivers exceptional WordPress and bespoke Shopify web design services. We create responsive, user-friendly websites that drive customer engagement and boost sales. Our team can develop new online experiences or revamp outdated platforms, ensuring your brand stays competitive in a rapidly evolving digital landscape. Additionally, we provide comprehensive maintenance and upgrades, granting you full control over hosting and domain services. Our ongoing support maximises your site’s performance and security, ensuring a seamless and reliable online presence that aligns with your business objectives and market demands.

Video & Animation

Animation and video are powerful tools for communicating your brand’s value in a concise, engaging way. Our full suite of services includes on-site filming, drone footage, and comprehensive editing—from refining your existing iPhone or Zoom clips to creating fully animated or AI-powered videos. We also provide storyboarding and concept development to ensure your message resonates with your audience. By enhancing footage with titles, transitions, and animations, we deliver polished, attention-grabbing content that can be strategically deployed across social media and other platforms.

Branding

With over 20 years of global branding experience, we develop and rebrand businesses with precision and creativity. Our comprehensive services include defining colour schemes, fonts, visual language—including photography and illustration styles—and establishing your tone of voice. We create a detailed brand book to ensure consistency across all platforms and materials. Additionally, we assist in creating branded social media content and setting up your presence on popular platforms such as YouTube, TikTok, LinkedIn, and Instagram. Throughout the branding process, we actively engage your ideas, revitalising your brand to align seamlessly with your business objectives and market presence.

Illustration

Colab delivers bespoke illustration services that enhance your brand’s visual identity. Our custom illustrations ensure your website, videos, and documents are instantly recognisable with a unique style tailored to your brand’s tone of voice. We have created illustrations for property brochures, maps for local festivals, t-shirt designs, website graphics, and original office artwork, all meticulously aligned with your company’s branding guidelines. By developing a distinctive visual language, we ensure consistency and memorability across all your visual communications. Our illustrations not only elevate your brand’s aesthetic but also effectively engage and resonate with your target audience, setting you apart in a competitive marketplace.

Graphic Design

Colab provides a comprehensive range of graphic design services to enhance your business’s visual identity. We create impactful presentation documents, whitepapers, catalogues, books, and stationery that clearly convey your brand message. Additionally, our team designs brochures, exhibition stands, vehicle livery, advertising materials, and building wraps, ensuring a consistent and engaging presence across all mediums. From initial concept to final execution, we deliver high-quality, visually compelling solutions that elevate your brand’s image and effectively engage your target audience.

Website maintenance and recovery

Keep your website secure, current, and fully functional with our comprehensive WordPress maintenance service. We’ll update all plugins, themes, PHP versions, and the WordPress core to prevent conflicts and resolve broken functionality. Our team specialises in restoring out-of-date sites where outdated plugins, themes, or PHP have caused errors, ensuring smooth performance and preserving your brand’s online presence. Let us keep you running flawlessly.

★★★★★

I’ve been working with the team at Colab for a number of years, and would highly recommend their creative services. They are quick to respond, happy to listen to your ideas, and competitively priced for what they deliver. Most importantly, they consistently produce high quality creative designs – and are a joy to work with.

Victoria Patyra

Reading’s Economy & Destination Agency
★★★★★

Highly recommend Craig and the Colab team. They are quick, user friendly and most importantly great designers!

Jonny Gooch

Green&Partners
★★★★★

As a early-stage healthtech we turned to Co:Lab for their existing industry knowledge and breadth of capability across design and website builds – which allowed our dev team to focus exclusively on product. We’ve found them to be talented and acommodating and they produce excellent work; long may this partnership continue.

Paul Tomlinson

Total Care Manager
★★★★★

I have used Co:lab over the last 5 years for a range of different projects – big and small. Craig and team take care to properly understand our requirements. They always deliver – on time and on budget!

Matt Oldham

Suresite
★★★★★

At Mind Of My Own we have been using the services of CoLab agency for several years and we intend to continue. Craig and his team give an unrivalled service, which is both affordable and responsive. Colab is everything you want from a web agency.

Yvonne Anderson

Mind of My Own