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Logo de l'agence Bruno
Logo of the branding agency Bruno

London

Logo de l'agence Bruno

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Services

  • Brand architecture

  • Brand positioning

  • Brand narrative

  • Logo & art direction

  • Brand applications

  • Brand guidelines

  • Tone of voice

  • Brand name

  • Tagline & key messages

  • UI/UX

  • Web design

  • Prototyping

  • TV & display ads

  • Brand launch

  • Billboard campaign

  • Photo shoot

  • Video shoot

  • Music & sound design

The history

Ortelli family archive: a grandfather and a child on a beach
Ortelli family archive: a walk with a dog on a country road
Ortelli family archive: a stroll along a marina
Ortelli family archive: a hike through the scrubland
Ortelli family archive: a grandfather and his grandson at a café terrace
Black-and-white archive photo of a man fishing, standing on a rock
Black-and-white archive photo of a dance in the 1950s
Ortelli family archive: swimming in a pool with a child

Bruno is the grandfather of our founders, Barthélémy and Léonard. An Italian immigrant, he built everything from scratch: his businesses, his family. It must be said that he was a man of great courage and an intense worker. Bruno didn’t wait for someone else to do things for him. Yet, his demands never prevented him from being profoundly human.

Ortelli family archive: a grandfather and a child on a beach
Ortelli family archive: a walk with a dog on a country road
Ortelli family archive: a stroll along a marina
Ortelli family archive: a hike through the scrubland
Ortelli family archive: a grandfather and his grandson at a café terrace
Black-and-white archive photo of a man fishing, standing on a rock
Black-and-white archive photo of a dance in the 1950s
Ortelli family archive: swimming in a pool with a child

Bruno is the grandfather of our founders, Barthélémy and Léonard. An Italian immigrant, he built everything from scratch: his businesses, his family. It must be said that he was a man of great courage and an intense worker. Bruno didn’t wait for someone else to do things for him. Yet, his demands never prevented him from being profoundly human.

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FAQ

Graphic design agency in London

Why choose Bruno as a graphic design agency in London?

Because Bruno brings together a team in London and Paris that thinks about the brand before drawing it. Our art directors start from your positioning, then build a system your team can use without them. For a brand selling on both sides of the Channel, both offices review the identity. And you speak to the people doing the drawing, with no account handler in the middle.

Where is Bruno’s London office?

Bruno’s London office is at 32 Blackfriars Road, SE1 8PB, on the Southwark side, a short walk from Southwark tube station. That’s where we present design routes to British clients. If your decision-makers are in France, the session can just as well take place at 27 rue de Liège in Paris. Between meetings, the work carries on over video, with barely an hour’s time difference.

What does a graphic design agency do for a brand?

A graphic design agency turns a brand’s positioning into visible signs, then sets the rules for using them. At Bruno, that means visual identity work, with motion when the brand lives on screen, and it can extend into digital. Branding decides what the brand says. Graphic design gives it a shape you can spot from across the street.

Which brands has Bruno designed for?

For Audion, an audio advertising platform, Bruno built an identity grounded in a physical representation of sound. AIUC, which certifies and insures AI agents, needed the rigour and authority of a standard. Studios Ferber, a legendary Paris recording studio, wanted to turn its heritage into a brand. Three briefs, three very different shapes.

How does a brand get noticed on the London Underground?

By being recognisable in a second, from a distance, between two station announcements. Tube platforms and corridors are some of the busiest spaces in London, and any visual that needs reading up close simply disappears. So Bruno tests every identity in those conditions: small, far away, on the move. Johnston worked that out in 1916.

Can you modernise a logo without betraying it?

Yes, as long as you first work out what customers actually recognise. Bruno isolates that element, a colour, a shape or a letter, then redraws the rest around it. When Sendinblue overhauled its identity, the original blue stayed, and a more accessible palette was built around it. A modernised logo should still be recognisable from three metres away, even by a distracted customer.

How long does it take to create a graphic identity?

For a complete visual identity, Bruno generally allows two to three months between the first workshop and the final guidelines. That range stretches with the scope, the number of people signing off on your side, and on starting from a blank page or from an existing brand. A project that also has to win over a head office in Paris sometimes takes a few weeks more.