Building brands people remember.

Strategy, identity and creative direction for ambitious brands and organisations.

Selected Work

Voodoo Foods

Repositioning a growing street food business into a premium, scalable food brand.

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The Long Table

Building a family of brands centred around food, community and social impact.

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Westmorland

Strengthening one of Britain's most distinctive hospitality brands through product, retail and storytelling.

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Black Bee Honey

Creating a premium identity inspired by provenance, craft
and nature.

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Grove View

Transforming a new healthcare hub through wayfinding, colour and visual storytelling.

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Babease

Helping a challenger food brand communicate with confidence and personality.

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Good brands work harder.

They create clarity, build recognition and change perception.

I combine strategic thinking with hands-on creative direction to build distinctive brands around what a business needs to achieve.

The right process depends on the challenge.

F.O.R.G.E. is your end-to-end approach for moving from business problem to strategic direction, identity and implementation.

BUILD
FOUNDATIONS

For businesses that need clarity, credibility and a distinctive identity without a long process.

GROW
SYSTEM

For established businesses that have outgrown their current brand and need a more complete system to support growth.

LEAD
TRANSFORM

For ambitious businesses preparing for significant growth, investment, expansion or repositioning.

Who We Are

Clear thinking. Distinctive creativity.

Marcus Walters Studio is an independent, founder-led branding studio combining clear strategy with distinctive, hands-on design.

With more than 25 years' experience across branding, advertising, image making and creative direction, I help organisations understand what makes them different, express it clearly and build brands people remember.

Senior thinking, hands-on creativity, without the big agency layers.

Creative. Enduring. Precise.

Clients

A cartoonish drawing of a smiling face with two eyes and a halo above its head. The word 'innocent' is written below the face.
Levi's Vintage Clothing logo in white text on a black background.
Logo of John Lee Wills & Partners, a legal or professional services firm.
A simple line drawing of a child's face with a tear, representing health concerns, next to text that says 'Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity'.
Black and white logo of the word "Clarks" in cursive script with a small registered trademark symbol.
Three black panels with white letters, spelling 'B', 'B', and 'C' in large font.
Black background with a pattern of evenly spaced white dots forming a distorted shape.
V&A logo in black serif font on a white background

Brands come to life through every interaction.

A collage of various everyday items including a man holding a t-shirt with a pink design, posters on a wall, children's snack packages, a framed art poster, a jar of chili jam, a sliced tomato and chili peppers on a cutting board, a person carrying a tote bag with text, clothing and accessories, and jars of honey.

Tell me where you are, where you need to get to, and I'll recommend the right way forward.