This is the third year in a row that RBH has supported Birmingham Design Festival, and we’re so proud to be a part of it all. It’s vitally important that the creative community in the region has a platform to share inspiration and a means of celebrating itself.

As a born and bred West Midlands communications agency specialising in advertising, digital, social and PR, we are all too aware how important the encouragement of creativity is.

More than simply a creative agency, we describe ourselves as a creative-first agency. For us, this means that creativity informs literally everything we do, from how we plan our digital media to how we develop our insight work.

We don’t see creativity as just our output. It’s how we work. In our world, creativity is all too often seen as the end-product – the words and pictures that so many people seem to think simply appear out of nowhere at the end of a long or short process. But we see it differently.

Our thinking is that if you empower everyone – no matter where they sit, how much experience they have, or what their job title is – to think creatively about everything, then you encourage a truly all-encompassing creative culture.

Creativity is all about looking at things from a unique perspective. It’s the art of looking sideways, to borrow the phrase of the great Alan Fletcher. It’s about intelligence, playfulness, and expressiveness. It’s the magic of invention.

And that’s how we find answers and new ways of doing things.

We’ve been around for almost thirty years now, and since day one we’ve been fiercely independent. Which is probably why we can work the way we do: we don’t need to answer to anyone except our clients.

In harnessing the power of unadulterated creative freedom, we produce cut-through marketing strategies and bold solutions to every challenge that comes our way, as we work collaboratively with our clients – and each other – to provide truly integrated, standout communications.

To find out more about us and about what a creative-first approach can do for you, head over to rbh.co.uk and join us on LinkedIn, Instagram and Threads.