About Us.

About Toast.

Toast Design Agency was founded in 1997 by three founding Directors.

We’re based in Banbury, Oxfordshire (just an hour outside London) and work with clients across the UK.

We currently have a team of 16 qualified staff with diverse skills, from artwork to web design and everything in between.

We work with marketers, marketing departments and individuals to provide all the creative services they need under one roof.

We save our clients time and money and improve their communication consistency.

What we do.

Toast is a full-service design and marketing agency. We offer branding, brochure design, annual report design, website design/build and everything else a team of creatives can cook up.

Our team has experience working on a wide range of projects, from small art and design jobs to large projects encompassing branding, print, and digital.

Our real strength lies in our ability to effectively provide everything you need, with 16 staff, three floors, and one building.

We understand that you need an agency that can assist you with both small tasks and larger projects with minimal drama. That’s us.

The DBA is a renowned UK organisation, setting high standards in design and business. Membership is a badge of quality, indicating commitment to delivering top-notch design solutions grounded in solid business principles.

DBA membership signifies a dedication to impactful design. This focus on effectiveness underscores the DBA’s philosophy that design drives business success.

Engaging a DBA member agency ensures your design needs are met by professionals adept at integrating design with business strategy.

We’re accredited by The Good Business Charter.

The Good Business Charter is an accreditation that organisations of all sizes in the UK can apply for in recognition of responsible business practices.

Accredited organisations include FTSE100 companies, partnerships, local authorities, universities, SMEs, charities and sole traders.

An organisation must meet all 10 commitments to receive GBC Accreditation.

We support Ecologi to offset our carbon.

We do our bit by contributing to Ecologi to ensure our staff offset carbon where possible. We’re a paperless office, we avoid unnecessary project miles and we champion environmentally sound design practices.

We also help our clients use less electricity by building super-fast websites.

Who do we work with?

Our team works with marketers, marketing departments, entrepreneurs and owner-drivers who need to get creative work produced.

For some clients, we serve as an extension of their marketing team, delivering creative work efficiently for deadline-sensitive projects.

For others, we’re a creative partner that they turn to as and when needed.

We’ve worked with large clients, including the NHS, Sainsbury’s, Gatwick Airport, Kohler, The National Lottery, The Victorian Society, Clanwilliam and many more household names. We also work with 100s of smaller clients that you’ve probably never heard of.

Regardless of who we work with, they receive the same level of creativity, attention to detail, and passion for their project. We want to make your marketing material look awesome and work hard.

Our strengths.

We’re not a small team, so unlike smaller agencies and freelancers, we have the capacity to turn jobs around quickly.

Many of our clients rely on Toast to get the job done – regardless of how tight the deadline may seem.

We’re a go-to agency for people who need creative work, fast and on budget.

We’re equally adept at artworking business cards as we are at building a mission-critical website.

Our team understand that you need more than just the ‘big’ projects done, so we’re on hand to help with all the smaller stuff too.

Toast clients work directly with our designers. We don’t employ account management unless the project demands it. This has the benefit of making us incredibly responsive, saving you time and money.

Our Studio.

We all work out of a Victorian townhouse in the centre of Banbury.

With the exception of Devan, all our staff are studio-based – for creative teams, this is the best way of working and means our clients get a truly creative team.

We have three floors (and a nice garden), with the branding and print team on the ground floor, the digital team on the first and then meeting rooms and creative space on the top floor.

We also have a lovely vaulted ceiling cellar, but no one fancies working down there.

You’re welcome to come and visit us!

The Toast Team.

Creative, clever, passionate and proud of the work we create, Team Toast consists of qualified Graphic designers, WordPress developers, consultants, administrators and support staff.

We’re a collaborative team that gets involved in all projects, which means more ideas for you!

Toast staff are friendly, approachable, and well-versed in our creative processes, and they’re not adverse to running up a large bar tab (it’s not all work and no play).