A rare centre of EXCELLENCE for brand, web & eCommerce projects.
finest CREATIVE AND TECHNICAL expertise, winning HEARTs AND MINDs.
one of the OLDEST FAMILY CREATIVE AGENCIES in the united kingdom.

philosophy
 

ORIGINAL CREATIVITY.

Originally founded by the Beal family in 1806 as merchants of fine furnishings, and moving forward two centuries as the artisans of creative and technical services, we believe excellence comes from the interweave of people, place & project. House of Beal is an original creative agency headquartered in a 1747 Grade II-listed Georgian townhouse in the heart of York, England. We specialise in brand, web & eCommerce projects with service excellence. Realised by the reservation of 20% of shares held in treasury to invest in a centre-of-excellence fund with three aims; finest creative and technical expertise, first-rate national and local quarters, and fair profit distribution. Our vision is to house a more equal experience for the people, place & project in which we are a part; a people is in its creativity, a place is in its heritage, and a project is in its originality.

services
 

“Since the first chapter of our story, we have sought to house the most extraordinary people, belonging to one of three integrated specialist house service disciplines; characterised by our family heritage, our original creativity philosophy & our service excellence.” - The Beal Family

HOUSE OF BRAND
Exploration & Expedition

Only a handful of companies tell their story. House of Beal tells customary and revolutionary stories; from incorporating an uncoated paper entrenching a sense of heritage to incorporating a geometric sans-serif typeface entrenching a sense of modernity. Our brand strategists are accustomed to crafting your story with the proprietary House of Beal brand works methodology; from the iconography to the wordmark, from the typography to the colour palette & from the copy to the photography and videography. All distilled in to a brand architecture book, moving to realisation across all the brand touch points. Human nature is to tell stories, with a well-told story triggering oxytocin, a neurochemical with another name; the love chemical. We all fall in love with particular brands with a well-told story. How about yours?

HOUSE OF WEB
New Builds + Re-Launches + Migrations + Integrations + Fixes + Optimisations

In the twentieth decade of the twenty-first century, with the interweave of our physical world with our virtual world, we believe the most extraordinary web creative agency requires to be to a sophistication of the most extraordinary property architecture firm. The virtual frontage / the intriguing home page, the doorways in and through / the intuitive navigation & the collection of rooms / the immersive and informative detail pages with rich function and form. Our web architects, designers & developers are accustomed to the sophistication with the proprietary House of Beal web creative works methodology; from the consultancy phase to the design phase, from the development phase to the quality assurance phase & from the release phase to the optimisation roadmap phase. Our ambition is to win the hearts & minds of each stakeholder. Plus, the House of Beal black book of proprietary methodologies will strike envy in the hearts & minds of your rivals too. Let's build your virtual headquarters.

HOUSE OF ECOMMERCE
Shopify + Adobe Commerce + Magento + Custom + Native + Headless

With our founding heritage in 1806 as merchants of fine furnishings, and as one of the leading creative eCommerce agencies in the United Kingdom, we believe the most extraordinary creative eCommerce agency requires to be to a sophistication of the most extraordinary property store architecture firm. The shop windows / the intriguing home page, the doorways in and through / the intuitive navigation & the display rooms / the collection and product detail pages with rich function and form. Our eCommerce architects, designers & developers are accustomed to the sophistication with the proprietary House of Beal creative eCommerce works methodology; from the consultancy phase to the design phase, from the development phase to the quality assurance phase & from the release phase to the optimisation roadmap phase. Our ambition is to win the hearts & minds of each stakeholder whether on Shopify, Adobe Commerce, formally Magento or on a custom framework on native or headless architecture.

partnerships

 

“A creative-as-a-service at its best with the finest creative and technical talent. Enough told.” - Client NPS

Satisfying Standard
From £1,250 Per Month

A majority support, minority change client-agency partnership with service excellence. Our standard partnership gives the principal capability of raising support requests from a pixel misalignment to a contact form misfiring, with a small additional capability of raising change requests from a brand storytelling piece to an upgrade to a third-party application. Planned in monthly or themed work packages as part of a broader partnership roadmap with one of our specialist strategists and project managers, our standard partnership satisfies those small support and change requests to keep a brand, web &/ eCommerce asset in motion.

Pure Premium
From £5,000 Per Month

A finely balanced support and change client-agency partnership with service excellence. Our premium partnership gives the principal capability of raising support and change requests from brand storytelling pieces to UX/UI design optimisations and from complex third-party integration support to a custom feature. Planned in monthly or themed work packages as part of a broader partnership roadmap with one of our specialist strategists and project managers, our premium partnership satisfies the sense of a pure mix of critical support and forward-focused change requests to move a brand, web &/ eCommerce asset in forward motion.

Exemplary Enterprise
From £15,000 Per Month

An enterprise-level client-agency partnership with service excellence, made to deeply understand the business and market requirements. Our enterprise-level partnership gives the principal capability of an in-house creative agency under a custom House of Client X label, with deep creative agency management and leadership expertise. Planned in monthly or themed work packages as part of a broader partnership roadmap in partnership with one of our specialist strategists and project managers, our enterprise-level partnership satisfies the sense of an exemplary at-scale centre-of-excellence across the service displines; strategy, consultancy, design, development, quality assurance & project management to appreciate a brand, web &/ eCommerce asset in order to advance the market.

work
 

A selection of our work in brand, web & eCommerce; from start-ups to giants.

Inclusion Housing

Brand - Web - Housing & Social Enterprise

Intro Inclusion Housing is a high-growth social enterprise with a business plan to provide 5,000 homes by 2027/28, with homes of 3,700 and £65m in income as of today. Brief Founded in 2007, there was a sense of; in order to grow, we need to reflect who we truly are to become. With the brief to manage a programme of works incorporating; a re-brand project, a corporate website re-launch project, a customer website new build project & an intranet new build project known as Octavia. Work Our principle brand strategist first reflected the future vision of social housing through a distinctive forward-looking coral acronym iconography mark which was distilled in to a broader brand architecture book evoking the enterprise's core value of entrepreneurial incorporating although not limited to; iconography, wordmark, typography, colour palette, copy, photography & videography, and realised in to a brand literature suite. Progressing to the web experience with a headless architecture as the selected tech stack in order to allow the sophistication of a de-coupling of the back-end systems from the front-end experience to enable a rich web experience yet leveraging the enterprise's data from the back-end systems whether on the corporate, customer or intranet virtual frontage, setting the standard in the market today, and preparing one of the highest-growing social enterprises in the United Kingdom for the enterprise's future growth curve.

York St John University Business School

Brand - Literature - Academia

Intro As part of York St John University Business School is the York St John University Business Society, with the vision to enrich the academic experience of students of York St John University Business School. Brief To illustrate the vision, the society required a rich brand experience for one the most important societal events of the year, the annual general meeting; a special event to vote on motions, stand to join the committee & enjoy a celebratory dinner. Work Inspired by the experience of luxury fashion events, House of Beal's brand house service discipline designed a fabric banner stand with the logomark in repeating pattern, a ballot paper & a small card featuring the vision of the society printed on an off-white GF Smith paper - the finest and most distinctive paper in the world. One of our favourite pieces of feedback was; 'it felt like a wedding event', with illustrious brand content for social, capturing the high desirability of membership of one of the top business societies, and as part of one of the top business schools in the United Kingdom.

Hearst

eCommerce - Publishing - Luxury Goods

Intro Hearst is a major publishing house with brands including although not limited to; Cosmopolitan, Country Living, Elle, Harper's Bazaar & House Beautiful. Brief Requiring a creative eCommerce agency with deep creative and technical expertise, the appointment incorporated the headline brief; to optimise the eCommerce store experience. Work The partnership borne fruit with a creative & technical consultive approach from quantitative and qualitative data analysis, eliciting and realising optimisations including although not limited to; enhanced search and discovery powered by AI, enhanced product detail pages with enriched product data & rich brand storytelling blocks with immersive see-the-inside magazine experiences, and highly sophisticated purchase and subscription management features to power one of the major publishing houses in the world.

contact

 

House of Beal would like to cordially invite you to be a part of our house.