Twelve people, two
partners, one shared library card.
- Founded
- 2010, London
- Team
- Twelve, plus Una the lurcher
- Cases
- 26 since '17
Your job is to be understood.
Ours is to make it possible.
We started Blackgeek in 2010 because we kept finding ourselves on the same calls — strategy at noon, identity at three, campaign on Friday — written by three different agencies who hadn't spoken since the kickoff.
So we built one studio that does the writing, the system, and the launch. Anyone who hands you a brand book and disappears is selling a souvenir. We stay. We're on the slack the morning the press release lands, the evening the regulator phones, the afternoon the third draft of the FAQ is finally ready.
We don't pitch. If you've read this far you already know if we're a fit. The brief form is on the next page. We write back within two working days, by hand.
Start a brief →The twelve.
Angelo Di Veroli
David Di Tivoli
Rana Pillai
Jacob Klein
Éadaoin Ó Briain
Sonia Halberstam
Marcus Okafor
Fern Ekanem
Cosima Day
Yoshi Tanaka
Priya Vellani
Una
Four positions we won't negotiate.
Numbers and names beat slogans.
If we can't put a date or a number on it in the first paragraph, we haven't done the work yet. Adjectives last.
The work that lasts is unfashionable.
We're not the studio for a viral moment. We're the studio for the second wave, the third year, the unflashy renewal.
If your aunt can't read it, rewrite it.
Plain English is a craft. We've spent more hours editing FAQs than designing wordmarks. We'd do it again.
Launch is the start, not the deliverable.
A year of quarterly check-ins, included. Three of our cases have run for five years. None has run alone.