Who, What and Why?

Waste is an award winning independent creative agency based in Nottingham, UK. We’re a collaborative, diverse, and forward thinking team who have a geniune passion for what we do. We deliver considered and engaging design for a wide range of clients across both the private and public sectors. 

We specialise in brand identity, design for print, fashion graphics, illustration, packaging, digital & online, interiors and art direction. 

Give us a call to discuss your new project we'd love to hear from you 

The Working Day is Never Done!

Keeping fresh and inspired is at the forefront of our studio. We encourage one another to pursue personal and research development projects that allow us to experiment and explore new ideas and techniques that we can then use within our commercial work.

We like to get our hands dirty! so much so we invested time and money in setting up our very own silkscreen & letterpress studio to use as a an outlet for our design work. We enjoy working with the old traditions of these mediums and have quickly became fascinated by the creative potential of the processes and by the ancient skills and ingenious machines employed to make it all happen.

Curating Design Events Since 2004!

We enjoy curating events and building collective projects. Over the last couple of years we have curated and hosted mutiple succesful events around the UK:

in/at/on - A zine making workshop held at the Fast Type, Slow Type conference in Birmingham. 

Carbon & Chemicals - Held in collaboration with Xynthetic Collective the exhibition toured three major cities in england and brought together over 30 national and international artists 

Floodit - Our ongoing project with Gringo Records it brings together screen printing and live music in the shape of a experimental event featuring an ever growing list of very talented designers and illustrators.

Press & Media

Our design work can be found in numerous publications and periodicals including:

• Wooden Toy Quarterly, Wooden Toy Publishing (Au) 2010
• Stickers: Stuck-Up Piece of Crap: From Punk Rock to Contemporary Art (USA) 2010
• Velo Bicycle Culture and Design, Gestalten Publications (UK) 2010
• Custom Kicks, Lawrence King Publications (Netherlands) 2009
• 400ml Project, Kitchen 93 (Paris) 2008
• New Art Birmingham, Fused Magazine (UK) 2007
• Empty, Design And Kinky Publishing (Au) 2007
• The Best Of Business Card Design, Rockport Publishing (UK) 2006
• Semi Permanent, Design Is Kinky Publishing (Au) 2005

Awards

Our work has picked up some shiny awards along the way:

• Food And Drink Forum Innovation Awards 2007
• Innovative Packaging Design London 2007