# Bodkin: design agency near Bath

> Bodkin is a brand and digital design studio near Bath, UK. A small, senior team creating brand strategy, brand identities, websites, and digital products for ambitious businesses across Bath, Bristol, Wiltshire, Somerset, and the UK.

Studio: Studio 20, Glove Factory Studios, 1 Brook Ln, Holt, Wiltshire BA14 6RL, United Kingdom
Phone: +44 1225 784083
Contact: https://www.bodkin.studio/contact

## Services

- [Brand strategy](https://www.bodkin.studio/brand-strategy): Brand strategy, positioning, naming, and narrative from a senior team near Bath.
- [Brand identity](https://www.bodkin.studio/brand-identity): Brand identity design from a branding agency near Bath.
- [Website design and development](https://www.bodkin.studio/web-design-bath): Web design near Bath for ambitious businesses.
- [Digital product design](https://www.bodkin.studio/digital-product-design): Digital product and UX design for complex software, dashboards, and SaaS.
- [Brand systems](https://www.bodkin.studio/brand-systems): Brand systems, design systems, guidelines, and rollout for in-house teams.
- [Design agency near Bath](https://www.bodkin.studio/design-studio-bath): Bodkin is a design agency near Bath, creating brand identities, websites, and digital products for ambitious businesses in Bath, Bristol, and across the UK.

## Selected work

- [Equals Even](https://www.bodkin.studio/case-study/equals-even): Brand Identity & Digital Design
- [MediaViz](https://www.bodkin.studio/case-study/mediaviz): Brand Identity & Digital Design
- [AlixPartners](https://www.bodkin.studio/case-study/alixpartners): Brand Identity & Design Systems
- [Riff](https://www.bodkin.studio/case-study/riff): Brand Identity, Product Design & Development
- [Spanish Stray Dogs](https://www.bodkin.studio/case-study/spanish-stray-dogs): Brand Identity & Typography
- [Perfectly Clear](https://www.bodkin.studio/case-study/perfectly-clear): Brand Identity, UI/UX & Web Development
- [YakChat](https://www.bodkin.studio/case-study/yakchat): Brand Identity, Product Design & Development
- [Bloobloom](https://www.bodkin.studio/case-study/bloobloom): Brand Identity & Packaging Design
- [Rudin](https://www.bodkin.studio/case-study/rudin): Brand Identity & Luxury Packaging
- [All work](https://www.bodkin.studio/work)

## Writing

- [Brand guidelines your agents can read](https://www.bodkin.studio/blog/brand-guidelines-your-agents-can-read): Our site now publishes llms.txt and a machine-readable brand kit, generated from the same data as our pages. Because agents are a brand audience now.
- [The next identity won't be scanned. It will be recognised](https://www.bodkin.studio/blog/the-next-identity-wont-be-scanned): What tartan, banknotes, and a printer's secret taught me about designing brands for machines.
- [Design Doesn't Always Start in Figma](https://www.bodkin.studio/blog/design-doesnt-always-start-in-figma): Cyanotypes, ink prints and leaf prints from Hollie's analogue practice, and how making things by hand is starting to shape the work at Bodkin.
- [How to Choose a Design Agency in Bath](https://www.bodkin.studio/blog/how-to-choose-a-design-agency-in-bath): Bath has more design talent per square mile than most cities its size. An honest guide to choosing the right agency for the work you actually need.
- [Web Design in Bath: What to Expect from a Serious Studio](https://www.bodkin.studio/blog/web-design-bath-what-to-expect-from-a-serious-studio): An honest guide to commissioning serious web design near Bath. What to put on the brief, what to listen for in the response, and how to spot a serious studio.
- [Welcoming Hollie to Bodkin](https://www.bodkin.studio/blog/welcoming-hollie-to-bodkin): Hollie Marsh joins Bodkin as a Graphic Designer, bringing an exploratory, hands-on approach and a love of experimental processes to the studio.
- [When Your Business Has Outgrown Its Brand Identity](https://www.bodkin.studio/blog/when-your-business-has-outgrown-its-brand-identity): Rebrands rarely fail because the new identity is wrong. They fail because the business waited too long, or for the wrong reasons. How to tell when it is time.
- [Why Fast Websites Are Brand Assets, Not Just Technical Wins](https://www.bodkin.studio/blog/why-fast-websites-are-brand-assets): Speed is usually treated as a technical concern. It is also one of the strongest brand signals you have. Here is why performance belongs in the design brief.
- [Bringing Rudin's stories to life through illustration](https://www.bodkin.studio/blog/bringing-rudins-stories-to-life-through-illustration): How a collaboration with illustrator Caitlin Turner helped give form to the mythology, romance and narrative at the heart of the Rudin jewellery brand.
- [Welcoming Dave Smith to Bodkin](https://www.bodkin.studio/blog/welcoming-dave-smith-to-bodkin): Dave Smith joined Bodkin as our Software Engineer in July last year. Some introductions are longer overdue than others.
- [Why Brand Systems Beat One-off Logo Projects](https://www.bodkin.studio/blog/why-brand-systems-beat-one-off-logos): A logo on its own rarely solves the problem. The businesses that scale well are the ones that invest in a brand system, not just an identity refresh.
- [Working with Local Brands in Bath](https://www.bodkin.studio/blog/working-with-local-brands-in-bath): Why working with a local design studio matters, and how Bodkin collaborates with ambitious businesses in and around Bath.
- [Why We Rebuilt the Bodkin Website](https://www.bodkin.studio/blog/why-we-rebuilt-the-bodkin-website): The real reason we rebuilt our site was not visual. It was about closing the gap between what we tell clients and what our own website actually delivered.
- [Blog](https://www.bodkin.studio/blog)

## More

- [About the studio](https://www.bodkin.studio/info)
- [Contact](https://www.bodkin.studio/contact)

## Machine-readable brand kit

- [Capabilities](https://www.bodkin.studio/agent/capabilities.json): services, capabilities, and FAQs for each offer as structured JSON
- [Selected work](https://www.bodkin.studio/agent/work.json): case studies, clients, and disciplines as structured JSON
- [Studio facts](https://www.bodkin.studio/agent/studio.json): name, location, contact details, and links as structured JSON
- [Verbal identity](https://www.bodkin.studio/agent/voice.md): tone of voice and writing rules for agents writing as Bodkin