Business Details
26 Years
experience
Your Trusted Partner for Marketing & Design Solutions
Design Eclectic was founded nearly 25 years ago by siblings Joanne Somerville and Duncan Kerr, combining decades of marketing and design expertise to deliver tailored solutions for businesses across the UK. Our remote team of seasoned professionals eliminates traditional agency overheads, ensuring clients pay solely for expertise and time. Specialising in outsourced marketing, graphic design, and web development, we prioritise personal relationships, with many clients retained for over two decades.Our approach blends strategic marketing insight with creative execution, from brochures and websites to comprehensive campaigns that drive measurable ROI. We challenge conventions, ensuring brands resonate authentically with their audiences while maintaining transparency and cost-efficiency. Our proven track record, highlighted by long-term client partnerships and testimonials, reflects our commitment to delivering impactful, client-centric results.
Services
Marketing Services
Graphic Design
Web Design
Brand & Corporate Identity
Event Management
Marketing Plans
Details
- Year established: 2000
Highlights and features
- We offer 25 years of combined marketing and design expertise.
- Our remote team includes specialists with decades of industry experience.
- We prioritise transparent, cost-effective solutions tailored to client needs.
- We provide end-to-end services spanning strategic planning to execution.
- Our client-centric approach has retained businesses for over two decades.
What people say
Fantastic service
Highly recommend
Excellent value for money
Proactive approach
Deliver on time and budget
Services
Outsourced Marketing Services
We provide cost-effective outsourced marketing services, combining strategic planning and execution for businesses across the UK. Our team delivers tailored campaigns, from digital marketing to traditional advertising, ensuring measurable ROI. With decades of experience, we act as an extension of your team, offering flexible support that adapts to your evolving needs.
Graphic Design
Our graphic design services blend artistic flair with marketing insight to create visually compelling materials. From brochures and logos to infographics and presentations, we ensure your brand communicates effectively. Each design is rigorously quality-checked to align with your business goals and stand out in competitive markets.
Web Design
We build user-centric websites that drive engagement and conversions, optimised for all devices. Our process includes strategic planning, design, and development, with content management systems for easy updates. Over a decade of experience ensures sites that rank well in search engines and reflect your brands unique identity.
Brand & Corporate Identity
Our brand identity services create cohesive visual and strategic narratives that resonate with target audiences. By merging marketing expertise with design excellence, we help businesses establish memorable, authentic brands. This includes logo design, brand guidelines, and messaging that aligns with your market positioning.
Event Management
We deliver end-to-end event management solutions, from conferences and exhibitions to seminars across the UK and internationally. Our focus is on maximising ROI through meticulous planning, creative execution, and seamless logistics coordination, ensuring impactful experiences that meet your business objectives.
People
Joanne Somerville
Managing Partner
As a Chartered Marketer, Joanne leads Design Eclectic's strategic direction, drawing on decades of client and agency-side experience. Her hands-on approach ensures clients receive intelligent marketing solutions at fair prices, balancing business growth with family commitments since founding the company in 2000.
Duncan Kerr
Creative Partner
Duncan heads our creative team, leveraging a long career in design agencies to deliver high-quality, detail-focused work. His rigorous quality control ensures every project meets exacting standards, blending creative excellence with practical business understanding to produce results-driven designs that exceed client expectations.
Questions
What industries do you work with?
We serve businesses across sectors including B2B technology, healthcare, manufacturing, and professional services, offering tailored solutions that align with industry-specific challenges and opportunities.
How do you ensure brand consistency?
Our team integrates strategic brand guidelines with creative execution, ensuring all materials—from websites to print—reflect your core messaging and visual identity cohesively across channels.
Can you handle urgent projects?
Yes, our flexible team adapts to tight deadlines while maintaining quality, as demonstrated by rapid microsite delivery for clients like Saint-Gobain Weber under time constraints.
Do you offer ongoing support?
We provide both ad hoc and long-term retainer services, with many clients retaining us for over 20 years due to our reliable expertise and proactive approach to evolving needs.
How do you measure campaign success?
We use detailed reporting tools to track KPIs such as lead generation, website traffic, and engagement metrics, ensuring transparent insights into ROI and areas for optimisation.
Reviews (6)
Kerrse Saturday Sessions
Oct 09, 2019
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I use Design eclectic on a regular basis they deal with all my graphic design needs for my business. They also did a fantastic job for my most recent event in March as took care of all my artwork & printing needs. I highly recommend this company they are very professional & very competitively priced.
Bob Kerr
Sep 12, 2019
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It gives me great pleasure to be able to fully recommend Design Eclectic for all your marketing needs. We found the staff to be extremely knowledgeable, creative, courteous more importantly efficient, delivering all projects on time. We have been using them now for a number of years for web design, maintenance & hosting, poster design, T.short design etc. and they have always been able to interpret our somewhat vague briefs and come up with the goods.
Jamie Barnes
Jun 30, 2019
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Really friendly team, very helpful on design. excellent presentation, cost effective. I would highly recommend Design Eclectic, great customer service.
Woodwise Kitchens
May 06, 2019
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A very professional service from start to finish. Took time to understand our business and established exactly what we needed to recreate and modernise our website. Fantastic result which we have received alot of positive comments about. We would highly recommend Design Eclectic.
Chris Smith
Oct 14, 2017
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Terrific team and very dedicated to ensuring you get exactly what you need in a professional and timely manner.
Matthew Wright
Jun 20, 2017
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Fantastic service from start to finish. Always kept informed with every stage of building my new website. Very friendly and approachable company that I would highly recommend.
