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Hillside Agency

Hillside Agency

5.0(10 reviews)See reviews ↓·Edinburgh

About the company

Hillside Agency is a creative agency based in Edinburgh. It is an independent design agency with over 25 years of experience within the creative industry. The agency supports clients from across Scotland and beyond, working with a wide range of clients from established organisations to independent start-ups. Hillside Agency designs brands, websites, and campaigns for organisations including arts and cultural events, community programmes, and purpose-led initiatives.

It builds websites in WordPress, a platform it has worked with for over a decade. Recent projects include The Choir of King’s College, Filmhouse, Rum Cay Rum, Love Libraries, Edinburgh’s Hogmanay, Destination Tweed, Irish Writers Centre, and Million Tree City. Hillside Agency’s legal entity is Hillside Agency Ltd.

What customers say

Based on genuine customer reviews

Arts and culture organisations, charities and independent publishers feature prominently across the feedback, alongside commissions spanning full rebrands, website builds, online shops and multi-channel campaigns. Recurring praise centres on how thoroughly requirements were absorbed before design work started, with clients noting that their feedback was acted upon and that rebrand projects arrived with three distinct visual directions, each flexible enough to adapt. Staff are regularly named, particularly Alex, Monica and Sergi, credited with professionalism, warmth and deep expertise across design and development.

Communication draws consistent approval, with proactive updates during projects and rapid responses to queries of every size, including when schedules were compressed and changes came late. The finished work is described as detailed and distinctive, and the value delivered against modest charity budgets is raised more than once. Those behind print magazines, film projects and community websites call the process collaborative and creative, and relationships lasting several projects are common. A recurring theme is the team's willingness to go beyond what was expected, leaving clients keen to work together again on future branding and digital work.

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Reviews

Reviews are taken from publicly available sources.

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Greig Robertson12 December 2024

The Hillside Agency developed a website for our small community based charity. We are really pleased with the website, the process of working with Hillside was really clear and smooth. It was also great value for the budget we had to spend.

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Sophie Gartshore10 October 2024

Great experience developing our project website with Hillside Agency. Professional, creative and engaging designers and developers who really took the time to understand our requirements and deliver just what we needed. Would definitely recommend working with Alex, Monica and the team!

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Jane Hanberry12 August 2024

I've collaborated with Hillside on three complete rebrand and website build projects: an arts festival, an arts centre, and an arts and health charity. For rebrands, Hillside listened carefully to feedback, offering three distinct styles, each with a high degree of flexibility. Across all three projects, they delivered truly unique designs. Their web development team, Alex and Sergi, are fantastic. Some of the websites we worked on were more complex than others, and they put in the effort to create the exact site maps we needed. They also handled domain and host transfers flawlessly. Any queries I had were answered within hours via email, and they were always reachable by phone. Hillside is by far the best digital agency I've worked with, and I will definitely continue using them for future projects.

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Alex Porter-Currie12 July 2024

We worked with Hiliside on a film project for Just East Cycles. The team were super collaborative, great at explaining what was needed and friendly. We'd love to work with Hillside again in the future and would definetly recommend them!

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Ally Palmer9 July 2024

I launched a new Scottish football print magazine in 2016 called Nutmeg and needed a website and online shop. Hillside have worked with us ever since and have been absolutely brilliant to deal with. Always quick to respond to any requests or issues I've had, no matter how small. We've updated the site and the shop since then and they continue to be a trusted support. Highly recommended

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Royal Society Edinburgh28 June 2024

We've been working with Hillside since 2020 on various web development projects (6 so far!). We initially sought them out after seeing their impressive work with the National Libraries of Scotland. The quality of their work is exceptional, demonstrating great attention to detail and a genuine understanding of our needs. Their communication is outstanding; they kept us informed throughout the project, and they are always so proactive with communications. Their commitment to delivering the project shone through. What really stood out was their almost telepathic ability to take the initiative and deliver exactly what we wanted (and bringing solutions to problems beyond our horizon). We highly recommend Hillside for their high-quality work, reliability and friendly service. They truly went above and beyond our many projects to ensure our satisfaction.

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Hillary Kavanagh11 June 2024

Monica, Alex and Sergi were a pleasure to deal with, demonstrating a deep knowledge across their respective areas. Our team thoroughly enjoyed working with them. We found the process to be collaborative and creative, resulting in our perfect outcome. It's really rare to find a team that will go the extra mile to deliver such great results. - Hillary Kavanagh, Producer Blue Teapot Theatre Company

Web design agencies in Edinburgh compared

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RankProviderRatingReviewsOpen Sat.
1Hillside Agency (this page)★ 5,010No
2Firefly Design Agency★ 5,021No
3LBD Studio★ 5,049No
4Duncan Weddell & Co★ 5,029No
5Moo Web Design★ 5,028No
Contact
hillside.agencyCastle Mills, 2 Gilmore Park, Edinburgh EH3 9FN
Working hours
Monday09:00–17:00
Tuesday09:00–17:00
Wednesday09:00–17:00
Thursday09:00–17:00
Friday09:00–17:00
SaturdayClosed
SundayClosed