the world’s most effective brand design consultancy
There’s no easy answer to what makes Elmwood Elmwood. It’s partly the way we do things, and plenty to do with our people. The tea and beer we brew ourselves helps, as well as the partners we get to work with.
A multi-disciplinary brand strategy and design consultancy born just outside Leeds, England in 1989.
Elmwood is the world’s most effective brand design consultancy having won more DBA International Design Effectiveness Awards than any other agency in the competition's 20-year history.
Voted Number 87 in the Sunday Times' 'Best 100 Companies to Work For' in 2011, and number 80 in 2008, Elmwood was also The Yorkshire Post's 'Best Company To Work For' in 2008. Elmwood is also accredited to 'Gold' standard by Investors in People and featured in the FastTrack 100 - an independent ranking of UK companies experiencing rapid overseas growth. Our chairman, Jonathan Sands, was awarded an OBE in January of this year for services to the design industry.
Recent creative wins include 5 New York Festival Finalist Awards and two Mobius international awards including ‘Best In Show’. In Feburary Elmwood received four more Design Effectiveness Awards and remain top of the historic table as well as the three-year league table.