Arch Creative

Arch Creative is an independent, full-service design studio based in Leicester. It was co-founded in 2006 by Joe Nixon and Luke Harrison, both of whom serve as Founder & Director. The studio specialises in branding, campaigns, digital, social media, and motion graphics. It serves clients locally, across the UK, and globally, working across sectors including Health & Wellbeing, Tech & Finance, Arts & Culture, and Consumer & Lifestyle.

Arch Creative is celebrating 20 years in business. Its self-initiated Mods and Punk exhibitions won the National Lottery Project of the Year Award for England. Joe Nixon is a published children's book author, a director of Social Gallery CIC, and sits on the board of BrightSparks Arts in Mental Health.

The team includes Senior Designer Gavin Harrison, who joined in 2010; Senior Designer Sarah Standing, who joined in 2016; Designer Charly Waite, who joined in 2022; Designer Tarren Parmar, who joined in 2023; Senior Creative Artworker Gemma Simmons, who joined in 2016; Developer & Editor Matt Whetherly, who joined in 2014; Videographer & Animator Matthew Letts, who joined in 2021; Account Manager Josh Smith, who joined in 2022; and Socials Manager Kiran Kaur, who has over 10 years of experience in organic social media.

Branding, graphic design, web work and video production form the core of what this Leicester studio offers, and feedback from clients returns to the same strengths across those areas. Rebranding is the project type mentioned most often, with businesses describing how a new visual identity was taken from the first brief through to finished artwork, and several remarking that the final design drew compliments from their own audiences. Long-standing clients also refer to print and online development, while video commissions are described as closely matched to the brief and delivered with extra tasks that had not been part of the original scope.

A recurring theme is dependability: agreed dates are kept, including on work requested at very short notice. Those who have commissioned the team describe a warm and capable group, with Joe named by a client of ten years. Communication is highlighted as clear and continuous, and the expertise applied to demanding briefs is singled out, especially on campaigns where experience and a steady approach counted. Clients frame the working relationship as a partnership, with the team committing fully and behaving as an extension of the client's own operation.