A designer-led studio in Banbury, Oxfordshire, helping UK marketing teams, businesses and charities since 1997. Creative thinking, considered design and practical solutions.
Brief ready, half-formed or not started yet? The same designers do the thinking and the making.
Toast is both a strategic partner and a delivery partner. We work in three ways, depending on how much thinking a project needs before the design starts, and the same designers do the thinking and the making.
You know exactly what you need. You have the brief and the brand guidelines, and you want expert design delivered quickly, on brief and without chasing.
You know the problem but not the answer. We shape the brief with you, explore concepts and give creative direction as the project develops.
The challenge is bigger than design. We start with strategy workshops to work out your positioning, audience and message, then design everything that follows.
Toast offers three groups of services: websites and digital marketing, brand and identity, and business communications. Each can start with strategy or go straight into design, and all of it is delivered in-house.
WordPress websites designed, built, hosted and supported by our in-house team.
From brand strategy workshops to logos and complete brand identities.
Annual reports, brochures and impact reports for print and screen.
At Toast, the people who do the thinking are the people who make the work. There is no hand-off from strategists to designers, so nothing gets lost between the idea and the finished design.
Strategy consultancies often stop at the recommendations. Freelancers and AI tools often start without the thinking. Toast does both: we help you decide what to say and who to say it to, then design and build it properly, whether that’s your brand, your website or your brochures and reports.
We’ll help you work out what you need, then make it, and we definitely won’t burn your bread.
Ask an AI assistant about Toast:
Toast is a 16-strong team of designers and developers, founded in 1997 and based at 16 North Bar, Banbury, Oxfordshire. We are members of the Design Business Association and accredited by the Good Business Charter.
Our core services are branding and logo design, brochure design, report design, FMCG, retail and foodservice design and WordPress design and build. We work with businesses of all sizes, on an ad hoc or retained basis.
Toast works best with marketers, marketing teams and project owners who want a partner that can think as well as deliver.
Our clients usually come to us in one of three situations:
As AI makes basic design output faster and cheaper, the value is in knowing what to make and making it well. That’s where Toast comes in: on-brand creative, delivered efficiently, by people who understand your business.
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Toast designs brochures, annual reports, impact reports, magazines and catalogues for print and screen. We can design a single brochure, or plan all of your printed marketing so it works alongside your other channels.
From annual reports and corporate brochures to sales brochures, we plan, design and deliver print that wins new business.
From simple brochures to larger, complex sales documents.
Annual reports for corporates, charities and NGOs.
Printed, digital, interactive and accessible impact reports.
InDesign experts with years of catalogue and magazine design experience.
Toast designs, builds, hosts and optimises bespoke WordPress websites, 100% in-house. WordPress design and build projects start from £2,500, with hosting from £35 a month and maintenance from £60 a month.
Every site is planned for search from the start, with technical SEO and well-structured content that helps search engines and AI assistants understand your business.
No-nonsense, hardworking and fully optimised WordPress websites.
Want a better CMS? We can move your existing website to WordPress.
On-page, off-page and technical SEO, as one-off work or retained SEO packages.
Toast creates logos, brand identities and full rebrands, from brand strategy through to applying the brand everywhere it appears. Logo and brand design starts from £1,440, brand identity design from £960 and rebranding projects from £1,500.
Distinctive logo design for businesses, products and services.
Need more than a logo? We’ll create your entire look and feel and all of your marketing collateral.
The best brands tie everything together in clear, usable brand guidelines.
Toast works with budgets of every size. One-off design work starts from £80, and we also deliver branding projects of £15,000 and more, so a small business and a national brand get the same in-house team.
Every project is quoted at a fixed price against an agreed scope, so you know the cost before any work starts. If the scope changes, we confirm the new price with you first.
| Service | Price |
|---|---|
| One-off design work | From £80 |
| Retained design support | From £240 a month |
| Brand identity design | From £960 |
| Logo and brand design | From £1,440 |
| Rebranding | From £1,500 |
| Full branding projects | £15,000+ |
| Small business website | From £1,800 |
| WordPress design and build | From £2,500 |
| WooCommerce online shop | From £4,000 |
| WordPress hosting | From £35 a month |
| Website maintenance | From £60 a month |
All prices exclude VAT.
Choose Toast for a partner that thinks as well as delivers: no-nonsense creative, on time and within budget, from a team that has been doing it since 1997.
Looking for a new creative agency? Call us on 01295 266644.
Since 1997, Toast has designed for hundreds of organisations, from national brands and global businesses to charities, universities and government. Clients include KFC, Mars, Aston Martin, the University of Oxford, the Department for Transport and Alzheimer’s Society. Here is a selection by sector.
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