From kitchen-table logo to a brand people take home

You've made a product people love. The hard part now is being chosen. Being the one someone picks up off a crowded shelf, turns over, and decides to live with. That choice isn't about specs or materials. It's about how the brand makes them feel, and a brand just to get going, was never made to win it.

Watch the video, and see how we get you through the front door.

Let’s talk about your brand

An honest 30-minute chat about where your brand goes next.

You're probably here because something just clicked.

Maybe it was a wholesale enquiry that made you look at your own packaging differently.

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A buyer who said “love it” and then never placed an order with you

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A retail shelf where you’re sitting next to brands with less quality but twice the polish.

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Or perhaps you can’t quite bring yourself to ask for a price you know you’re worth.

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It’s not about your product

You know your product is good. Often better than home and lifestyle brands twice your size. And it shows, because people already love what you make.

Then there's the gap. Your product moved on. The brand didn't. And a brand that’s fallen behind puts a stop to three things:

The price you can charge

The ability to
stand-out

The opportunity for investment

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Mel has a rare gift for getting inside your head and helping to bring your brand to life in a way that feels truly authentic.

Leanne Parr, Founder
Harper Williams

The brands striking the right chord.

Each of these home and lifestyle founders turned a brand people liked into one they welcome into their homes.

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Who is this for?

You're just starting, and you want to start right.

You've got the product, the ambition, and the budget to do this properly. You'd rather build a brand that's ready for the shelf from day one than launch cheap and rebrand in two years.

You're two or three years in, and you've hit a wall.

The brand got you here, but it won't get you to the next stage. There's a wholesale enquiry, a buyer meeting, a growth step you can feel coming, and you know the brand isn't ready for the room you're walking into.

You've tried the cheap route, and you're done.

The freelancer, the templates, the logo that never quite fit. You've learned the hard way that cheap costs more, and now you want one partner who'll do it properly, once.

Your 6-week Brand Symphony

Six clear steps, to go from "one of many" to "the one they chose." Each step is signed off together before we move on. Nothing goes forward until you're happy.

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    Tune in

    Kick off & Foundations

    We start by getting under the skin of you and your brand.

    We’ll work with you in a 2-3 hr workshop where together we’ll map your purpose, positioning and audience we‘ll also size up the competition as well as best practise examples while we’re at it.

    What you get:
    A brand strategy that every creative decision is built on

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    Find the note

    Exploration & Collaboration

    Before any real design starts, we explore and collaborate.

    We do this by creating brand world boards (combining moodboard imagery, rough brand ideas, and early messaging) so we’re fully aligned before we commit to a direction.

    What you get:
    A creative direction that you can get behind

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    Set the score

    Brand Identity Design

    This is where steps one and two really come to life.

    We deliver one strong, fully considered concept, not three generic options. Showing your logo, colour, typography, and art direction applied to real touchpoints that make sense to you and your vision.

    What you get:
    A brand world you can see, feel, and sign off with confidence

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    Strike a chord

    Key Brand Asset Roll Out

    Before we create guidelines we’ll take 1–3 agreed touchpoints to roll out.

    This could be website, packaging, social templates, whatever matters most. This means we get to design them in full, testing the brand where it actually lives.

    What you get:
    Real assets, ready to use and launch your brand with

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    Amplify

    Brand Guidelines

    Once we have real life assets in-hand we can create a fuller guidelines document.

    This includes a comprehensive brand guidelines document, plus every file, template, and asset handed over in full. So anyone who touches your brand gets it right.

    What you get:
    Brand consistency, without you needing to police it.

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    Play it loud

    Launch & Beyond

    Your brand deserves a real launch, not just a go-live pop.

    To help launch your new brand we can help to build a strategy to get it into the world. Think advertising campaigns, social rollout, internal comms, events, POS and the rest.

    What you get:
    A brand that’s not just finished, but heard.

Your total time: roughly 8 hours across 6 weeks. We handle everything from start to finish.

Let’s talk about your brand

An honest 30-minute chat about where your brand goes next.

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Mel was amazing at getting to know and understand me and created a brand that is perfectly suited to me and my personality.

Alex Parr, Founder

In home and lifestyle, nobody’s looking for the cheapest option. They’re buying the one that resonates with them the most. It’s a market that isn’t growing in volume, it’s premiumising.

Your ideal customer isn’t comparing price tags.

They’re deciding which brand and which object fits the life they wants to be living. That decision is emotional long before it’s rational.

And the brands that win? Well they start by resonating with their audience long before they talk price. They’re not louder, not cheaper but unmistakably themselves.

Let’s talk about your brand

An honest 30-minute chat about where your brand goes next.

Are we a good fit?

This is for home and lifestyle founders, who know their brand is holding them back from real growth. If that‘s not you yet, no dramas.

This is probably for you if:

Your product’s proven and people already love it

You’re ready to invest in brand as a growth decision, not a nice-to-have

You’re launching, rebranding or scaling in the next 13 months

You’re done blending in and are ready to charge what you’re worth

This is probably not for you if:

You’re pre-launch and pre-budget

You’re after a cheap logo, fast

You’re not yet clear on your product or your market

You think branding is decoration rather than a business decision

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Trumpet cared about my brand as if it was their own and that really comes across.

Eve Lister, Founder

Meet Team Trumpet

Mel, Creative Director and Founder.
14 years designing & building brands for the likes of Redrow Homes, MCFC, Victoria Leeds, Total Fitness, Revolution Bars and Adora Home. She knows how the big brands earn their premium, and now founder-led H&L brands get the same thinking without the agency machine.

Clare, Studio Director.
She came to Trumpet as a client before she helped to run it, she's made the exact decision you're weighing up, from your side of the table. Now she makes sure every project earns its place and moves at the pace of a real business.

Your Questions, Answered

  • Thirty minutes no pitch. This is about you and your business.

    We look at what’s holding your brand back and whether we’re the right people to fix it. You’ll leave clearer either way.

  • 6-8 weeks, with clear milestones and sign-off at every stage.

  • Roughly 8 hours in total.

    You show up, give honest feedback, and make decisions when they’re needed.

  • Our projects are a five-figure investment, depending on scope.

    We talk pricing on the call, once we know it’s a fit both ways. What we won’t do is quote you a cheap logo that’s not what moves the needle here.

  • We’re leaner than an agency and deeper than a freelancer. Senior strategy and senior design, from the same people, all the way through.

  • You can get partway, and maybe you already have.

    But tools can’t give you positioning, and they can’t tell you why the brand isn’t landing. That’s something a platform can’t give you

  • Yes, of course but we will discuss in more detail how we can best help you and your brand on the call

A note from Mel and Clare

Hey 👋🏻

If you’ve read this far, you probably already know the brand needs work. The real question is usually timing: is now the right moment?

Here’s what we’ve found.

It’s almost always sooner than it feels. Every month you’re on the shelf with a brand that doesn’t match the quality of your product, is a month you’re leaving something on the table: a retail conversation, an investor meeting, a customer who should have remembered you and didn’t.

We built our process to move at the pace of a real founder, not an agency timeline. No juniors, no handoffs, and no waiting around.

If that sounds like what you need, we’d love to hear where you’re at and how we come in.

→ Book a call

We’ll get to know a bit about your brand before we meet, so the first conversation’s actually useful.

Mel & Clare
Trumpet

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Mel is a joy to work with, she spends so much time listening to whats needed and properly understands the business before she works her magic.

Faye Collings, Marketing Manager
iHeat

You've built something people love. Let's make it the one they choose.

Let’s talk about your brand

An honest 30-minute chat about where your brand goes next.