We’re a small design agency with big experience.
Formed in 2003, with two clients: Tower Homes (L&Q) and Peabody, we’ve attracted clients all over England including commercial and residential property developers, property sales and marketing agencies, larger graphic design agencies and the education sector.
We deliver marketing campaign collateral for the largest and smallest schemes our clients bring to market, across all tenures, from 3 to 300 units, creating around 30 brands a year.
Big agency service and outstanding creative at small agency prices.
With over 2 decades of experience, supporting some of the largest clients in British property industry, you won’t have to compromise on quality of creative or service.
You’ll always deal with an equity-holding director.
We’ve worked hard to win our reputation, you’ll notice the difference
We create collaborative space for a really creative start to the project.
It’’ll be detailed and fun and there’ll be cake!
We’ll hit your budget and fix a price from the outset.
We just won’t lose a project on price, we’ll find a way!
We’ll make your life easier
We’ll go straight to your professional team, gather the right technical information, analyse it and present you with the results, saving you from the boring work that everyone hates.
We’ll make you look good
We hit budget, programme and quality, always!
Variations agreed in advance
We always agree prices up front so you don’t get any surprises.
Accurate and clear plan information
We’re specialists in property and we get it right!
Simple and reliable project management
GANTT programming, effective prioritisation, weekly progress reports on progress and actions, we’re always on top of the project.
Friendly, agreeable service
Check out the testimonials at the base of this page!
Ben Brickwood
Ben’s a Fine Art graduate and a designer-maker with a former life as a construction project manager.
He understands contract structure and can obtain the right technical information from your professional team, quickly! He’s a friendly and professional account manager with years of experience servicing property developers & projects across all tenures, and all sizes of scheme.
He’s mentioned personally in the testimonials at the base of the page
Emma Maddick at EMC360
Emma's a chartered marketer with almost 20 years’ experience in the new build property sector
Emma has a wealth of experience at a senior level, delivering innovative marketing strategies for both Sales and Build-to-Rent (BTR) projects. Emma has successfully brought to market complex multi-tenure JVs and large-scale placemaking schemes including Barking Riverside (£3Bn, L&Q), Royal Albert Wharf (£40M, Notting Hill Sales) and Porter’s Edge (£500M, Folio & Sellar JV).
Having worked both client and agency-side, Emma has expertise managing multiple stakeholders to successfully deliver brand strategies and lead generation
campaigns.
In addition to her many years leading teams to deliver marketing strategies for private sale and Shared Ownership developments, more recently Emma worked as a Marketing Consultant for Way of Life, a dedicated Build-to-Rent fund, where she successfully oversaw the launch of their first two flagship developments in Birmingham and Leicester.
Emma was a long-standing member of the National Housing Awards steering group and is a judge for the First-time Buyer Awards.
Michelle Arthur at Athena Web Design
With a First Class Honours in Media (specialising in Web) Michelle went on to become an eLearning developer for Learn HQ and designed and developed the company’s website.
Michelle was the head web developer at Brace Creativity Agency, where she oversaw the day-to-day work load of the development team.
Michelle has been a co-owner at award-winning Athena Web Designs Ltd since 2011.
Edward Thomson at Newman Thomson Printers
Edward is joint owner of Newman Thomson. a printing company formed in Sussex 2005
Newman Thomson is an SME and employs 25 people. Their roles are all in relation to admin, printing and delivery.
Robert Bohlke
Robert has worked as a designer and illustrator for 25 years, he has worked almost exclusively in housing association property for the last 14 years and is the creative lead behind all of Sesame’s latest projects.
His past clients include major blue chip commercial and residential property developers. His role is to design brands, brochure spreads, website layouts, signage concepts
They really are the perfect example of going above and beyond; I’m able to link them in with everyone from architects to sales, knowing that I can rely on them to understand every step.
Rocksan Morrison | Marketing Executive
I've worked with Ben at Sesame Design on various projects, large and small, over many years....As always its been a joy to work with him.
James MacPhail | Head of Sales and Marketing
Ben and his team really go the extra mile to consult with you and advise on the best plan of action for your marketing campaigns, drawing on their wealth of knowledge and expertise in this area. Thank you to Ben and the team for all your hard work and helping us deliver on our marketing goals this year. I highly recommend their services.
Chris Mellor | Senior Sales Executive
A very professional
and knowledgeable designer.
Jane Williams
Sesame Design are great at what they do, which is being creative and bringing new ideas to the table. You can trust the project will complete on budget and on time!
Syed Mafique
Thank you Ben, for all your hard work.
Chandrayee Lahiri
We have found their style of working, quality of work and design concepts to be of a very high standard. Sesame Design liaised directly with our contractors and architects to gain all the correct information required and were able to produce a fantastic brochure within a short deadline.
Trudi Quinn
Ben is incredibly professional, he takes the time to meet up to review the site anddiscuss the brief. He demonstrates attention to detail and always goes the extra mile.
Sarah McCarthy | Marketing Manager
Ben delivers his ideas on time and will always make contact with site to take that added pressure away from our marketing team to ensure he has what he needs to get the job done! Ben meets customer’s expectations and a desire to meet our timescales.
Helen Mason | Head of Sales & Marketing
Ben is approachable and informative and is clearly passionate about Graphic Design.There have been a few times where he and his team have had to work under pressure to meet some tight deadlines for our Shared Ownership schemes’ marketing brochures. We’re very happy with his work.
Alex Kemp
Ben has a positive can do attitude and a keen attention to detail. He always goes the extra mile and never compromises on quality.
Rachel Salole | Sales Manager
Their ability to clearly capture and relay a brief to formulate a concept and design fitting for the scheme in question ensures that we are assured of a successful marketing campaign and ultimately reduced sales periods.
Kush Rawal
Sesame interpreted the brief extremely well resulting in the whole team loving the fresh design outcome...I would not hesitate to recommend their services to similar organisations in future.
Bernice Chan
