Ward & Co

Evolved Branding and New Website

Ward & Co is one of the UK’s leading historic building conservation companies, helping clients such as the National Trust and English Heritage to keep listed and period buildings for the study and enjoyment of future generations.

Ward & Co has grown impressively since its foundation in 1995 and now employs over 50 people from two offices in the South of England. The company had outgrown its folksy branding and was not projecting its achievement and capabilities to both its institutional and private client audience.

Manifest is currently engaged in evolving the branding and designing and building a new website. The old castle graphic has been redrawn as a simpler, more monolithic form, complemented by a bold and confident logotype. The images show the work in development.

The website uses carefully selected and cropped imagery to present Ward & Co’s range of conservation and high quality new build services to its broad target audience. We have adopted a consultative approach with the staff and the work has already met with a surge of internal enthusiasm and support within Ward & Co.