Web design & SEO in Worcester.
Human-centred websites that make your offer clear and the next step easy.
I’m Mark Purches, and Cotswold Creative is my independent design studio, founded in the Cotswolds in 2004 and now based in Worcester. As well as brand identity, graphic and marketing design, I’ve designed and built more than 100 websites and software products for startups, established businesses, charities and global brands. I also provide ongoing care covering hosting, domains and updates, plus helping the right people find you on Google and in AI answers.
I’m currently redesigning the Cotswold Creative website and brand identity to reflect my latest work and approach. In the meantime, explore selected work from the archive, or get in touch to talk about your project.
- Web design
Voluntary Arts — website
A website design for Voluntary Arts, bringing creative participation, news and opportunities together with a prominent donation route.
- Marketing design
Snagajob — restaurant recruitment
A social campaign graphic pairing a direct recruitment message with product imagery and a strong orange accent.
- Web design
Access Sport — website
A charity homepage design combining participant stories, impact figures, events and ways to support the organisation.
- Graphic design
Badlands Record Shop — business cards
Business card artwork for Badlands Record Shop, a long-standing independent record shop in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. Specialising in Bruce Springsteen and Bob Dylan, the shop sells CDs, vinyl and box sets. The cards bring its music identity into bold red, white and blue graphics.
- Web design
The Community Network — website
A website design presenting community facilities and support for young people and families, with clear service and enquiry routes.
- Web design
Circomedia — website
A homepage design for Circomedia, using performance photography to introduce shows, classes and training opportunities.
- Graphic design
Badlands Record Shop — varsity artwork
Varsity-style artwork for Badlands Record Shop in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, combining outlined lettering with a guitar-player silhouette and circular emblem.
- Graphic design
Badlands Record Shop — shield artwork
Tour-inspired shield artwork for Badlands Record Shop in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, combining distressed lettering, a musician silhouette and an American flag motif.
- Web design
Action for Elders — website
A charity homepage design combining its later-life mission with activities, news and a clear donation invitation.
- Brand identity design
- Graphic design
Rivya — brand identity
Brand identity for Rivya, a Cotswolds hotel and restaurant in Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire. The commission covered the logo, business cards and physical signage, pairing a vivid butterfly symbol with a restrained serif wordmark.
- Marketing design
Eaton — Monday Motivation
A branded social graphic combining a motivational quotation with lighting imagery and Eaton's blue campaign strip.
- Marketing design
Tots in Action — banner
A promotional banner introducing children's rugby sessions, with bright colour, programme details and a clear booking message.
- Graphic design
Badlands Record Shop — typographic artwork
Typographic artwork for Badlands Record Shop in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, using tightly arranged concert-inspired words and a guitarist silhouette to create a compact visual statement.
- Brand identity design
- Graphic design
Espruino — identity graphics
Brand identity graphics for Oxfordshire-based Espruino. Electronic and code-inspired symbols come together through a consistent line style and a vivid yellow palette.
- Marketing design
Canon — print-quality campaign
German-language campaign artwork combining bold typography with colourful print imagery to communicate a print-quality message.
- Web design
Ripplez — website
A website design for Ripplez, bringing family stories, support services and ways to help into a colourful homepage.
- Marketing design
Canon — results campaign
A companion campaign graphic using strong type and a spectrum of print colours to communicate consistency and results.
- Web design
Amelia Trust Farm — website
A homepage design introducing the farm's educational and community work, alongside visiting information, group activities and donations.
- Marketing design
Jasyn Savage — fitness flyer
A fitness-class flyer using an energetic blue and orange palette, large typography and clearly grouped session information.
- Brand identity design
Espruino — logo concepts
Logo concepts for Oxfordshire-based Espruino, bringing an electronic circuit symbol together with a simple wordmark and the brand’s distinctive yellow accent.
- Marketing design
Snagajob — recruitment campaign
A recruitment campaign graphic bringing together a clear headline, workplace photography and a product interface preview.
- Web design
MTIB — website
A website design bringing products, services and news together, with prominent routes to contact and support the organisation.
- Brand identity design
- Web design
- Website care
Annie White Massage Therapy — logo
Brand identity for Annie White Massage Therapy in Temple Guiting, Gloucestershire. She serves Cheltenham and the Cotswolds, including Winchcombe, Stow-on-the-Wold, Bourton-on-the-Water, Broadway and Moreton-in-Marsh. My work includes her identity, business cards and website, which I continue to manage and host. The identity combines a flowing figure, light typography and a calm turquoise palette.
- Web design
Prior’s Court — website
A homepage design introducing specialist autism support, with distinct routes for families, services and people interested in working there.
- Marketing design
Eaton — data-centre campaign
A digital campaign banner pairing data-centre imagery with a concise efficiency message and a clear destination.
- Marketing design
Eaton — industrial campaign
A technical campaign banner combining industrial photography, a signal-quality message and a product-information route.
- Web design
National Code — website
A website design presenting student-accommodation standards, membership information and access to the codes.
- Marketing design
Tots in Action — autumn campaign
A seasonal promotional banner for children's rugby, combining autumn imagery with programme and booking information.
- Brand identity design
Karen Kingscote — brand identity
Brand identity for Karen Kingscote, based in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. An expressive handwritten initial is paired with a restrained wordmark.
- Brand identity design
Essentia Beauty — logo
A beauty identity combining an abstract flowing symbol with light typography and a soft neutral palette.
- Brand identity design
Phoenix Feng Shui — logo
A visual identity combining a colourful phoenix illustration with flowing lettering and a supporting strapline.
- Graphic design
EastmeetsWest — brand imagery
A layered photographic composition using colour, soft focus and architectural imagery to create an atmospheric brand backdrop.
- Brand identity design
- Graphic design
Feast Fare — food illustration
Food illustrations created as part of the brand identity for Feast Fare, a mobile food van business in Worcestershire. My work also included vehicle graphics for its food vans, carrying the identity from individual illustrations onto the vehicles.
- Brand identity design
- Graphic design
EastmeetsWest — identity artwork
A brand composition bringing together a geometric symbol, a wordmark and atmospheric purple imagery.
- Marketing design
Snagajob — hiring campaign
A companion recruitment graphic combining a bold hiring message with workplace photography and desktop and mobile product imagery.
- Brand identity design
- Graphic design
- Web design
- Website care
Annie White Massage Therapy — business cards
Business cards for Annie White Massage Therapy in Temple Guiting, in the Gloucestershire Cotswolds. Part of a wider commission covering her brand identity and website, with ongoing website management and hosting. The cards carry the identity’s calm turquoise palette and clear typography into print.
- Graphic design
Badlands Record Shop — tour emblem
A circular tour emblem for Badlands Record Shop in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, using a limited red, white and blue palette and a strong typographic centre.
- Graphic design
Badlands Record Shop — script artwork
Flowing script artwork for Badlands Record Shop in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, with a contrasting tour caption and a bold monochrome treatment.
- Brand identity design
Jasyn Savage — logo
A personal training identity combining a stylised moving figure with a clean wordmark and orange accent.
- Web design
Cardiff City FC Foundation — website
A football foundation homepage design combining community stories, programmes and prominent ways to get involved or donate.
- Brand identity design
EastmeetsWest — logo
A geometric brand symbol and wordmark, designed as a clear standalone expression of the EastmeetsWest identity.
- Web design
Veterans for Wildlife — website
A conservation charity homepage design combining wildlife photography, programme information, impact figures and ways to support the cause.
- Marketing design
Eaton — Wednesday Wisdom
A branded social graphic using a technology quotation and cable imagery within Eaton's blue campaign treatment.
- Marketing design
Disco party — event poster
A bold event poster combining large condensed typography, contrasting colour blocks and clearly arranged venue and date details.
- Marketing design
Eaton — collaborative design campaign
A campaign banner bringing together an engineering photograph, a collaborative design message and a clear information route.
- Web design
Thurrock CVS — website
A community organisation homepage design combining local stories, projects, services and ways to get involved.
- Graphic design
Viceroys of India — book cover
A book cover design combining a red historical image collage with prominent serif typography and a clear title hierarchy.
- Marketing design
Tots in Action — promotional flyer
A bright promotional flyer for children's rugby, bringing together the programme's identity, benefits and an energetic headline.
- Brand identity design
Spotwots — logo
A playful media identity using rounded blue lettering, a red accent and dimensional details.
Client words · 2016
“To find an artist and techie who had a marketing pulse was a utopian dream… Then I found Mark.”
“He remembers everything we discuss and his reliability and attention to detail beats anything I have ever experienced as a world-worn professional.”
Selima, EastmeetsWest
Charity founder and author
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