Creative Director Nick Vaus discusses the need to rethink sustainability in Beauty Packaging magazine this month – don’t just think packaging, think purpose…

Scandinavian beauty brand Eleni & Chris is taking the beauty world by storm – and this month we’re excited to see our partnership profiled in Brand Experience Magazine.http://dewgibbons.com/work/eleni-chris

Published in BeautyMatter this month, Creative Director Nick Vaus takes us through the pros and cons of three key ways that brands can engage with ingredients.

Our designs for Sebastian Professional’s A/W16 Limited Edition Collection won an American Package Design Award!

This Easter we’re looking to the innovative beauty brands using egg in their products and those creating Easter-inspired ranges – move over Christmas! From the fabulous to the fishy, here’s who made the cut…

SPC Magazine’s April issue sees Creative Director Nick Vaus discussing the rise and fall of iconic brand The Body Shop. In the lead up to its sale by L’Oréal and flurries of speculation in the business press about potential buyers, he looks back at the brand’s former glory and dissects the cause of its current demise.

Cosmoprof Bologna features the latest global beauty insights, emerging products, new lines and innovations. With our DG+P’s distinct sector specialism on beauty, wellness and health, we’ve brought you our distilled view of the show.

This April, Nick Vaus speaks at in-cosmetics on ingredient-led beauty. Join him to find out what it actually takes to create a compelling ingredient-led story.

Cosmetics Business published Nick’s views about the seven deadly sins of branding, and how beauty businesses can avoid them. Read on to find out if your brand is guilty…

Hitting the shelves this week is Nick’s feature article for SPC Magazine, where he analyses the key beauty trends within three visual and verbal pillars that form The Language of Beauty.

Can a Feminist love fillers? This was the question hotly debated by beauty and journalist luminaries at a recent CEW event. Our Communications Creative Director, Paul found the conversation illuminating, with the answer less important than the substantial caveat that accompanied it…

Last year, Client Services Director Sara was left unimpressed by her London luxury day spa experience. But it looks like North America’s mass beauty market also needs to massively up its game if our PR Stef’s recent makeover at Sephora Canada is anything to go by...

Nick writes for SPC about why every creative brief should put sustainability as an upfront topic, addressing the brand’s wider impact, both now and in the future.

Give and Makeup is an amazing initiative by skincare guru, and force of nature, Caroline Hirons to rehome beauty products with women and children in domestic violence shelters. We’re honoured to have been involved in creating design and communications for the project and this year’s kids Christmas Shoebox Campaign. Client Services Director, Sara tells the whole story here…

London, Christmas and beauty. Three of our very favourite things. This year, London offers a vast, dazzling array of festive beauty venues, experiences and products to enjoy. But what’s really captured our attention this year? Read our Festive 2016 beauty guide to find out…

Marks & Spencer’s signature skincare range Formula is relaunching and the retailer once again turned to us to review the positioning then rationalise and redesign Formula’s identity and packaging.

In a hugely saturated market it’s always going to be a struggle to make it big and get noticed, especially for niche brands. So we love to see exciting, female, beauty- entrepreneurs shouting out for one another. And by gosh are they getting noticed!

You are 50% bacteria. Nope, not an insult. Just something we’ve learnt from pioneering microbiome beauty brand Gallinée. Creative Director Nick looks at the revolutionary new beauty brand teaching us to love our microorganisms.

We developed a masterbrand positioning, brand identity, and packaging design to ensure consistency, clarity, and future stretch to support this hugely ambitious brand’s hair and beauty product portfolio strategy. And is it ever working!

Recent news that L’Oréal is buying prestige fragrance Atelier Cologne has got our Creative Director Nick thinking about how to ensure success when big brands acquire those that are niche.

The Josh Wood Guardian of Colour range has been a huge success. So the decision to extend into new areas that support the brand’s positioning was a bit of a no-brainer. Enter Precious Blonde and ColourLoc Treatment Iron.

Charlotte Mensah, the award-winning hairstylist, and owner and artistic director of Hair Lounge in London’s Notting Hill, has just launched our brand identity and packaging design for her premium hair care range aimed at Afro and Curly hair types.

Sebastian Professional’s new Dark Oil extension is launching – our latest work with the brand since our partnership began in 2012.

Big brands often mean big business, but two British beauty brands, the Konjac Sponge Co and White Hot Hair, are proving that the small and nimble can be very mighty indeed….

Stephanie and Sara thought a recent talk with the founder of Gazelli Skincare was a textbook lesson in how to evolve from skincare products to a lifestyle and wellbeing focus, whilst remaining true to your brand ethos.

Another day, another new brand or destination: London offers an almost dizzying kaleidoscope of beauty experiences to enjoy. But which ones are really worth the visit? Read our Summer 2015 beauty guide to find out….

How is Boots UK making women feel pretty damn good? We found out at CEW.

From the beat of flamenco heels, to the satisfying clack of a bottle lid, to the click of a mouse, this year’s InnoCos Beauty Innovation Summit in Madrid was brimming with passion and energy.

Our strategy director Rory comments on how health and beauty brands are changing in a feature for Convenience Store.

For Steve’s latest SPC Magazine article What Women Want, we ventured into the world of beauty forums and asked: “If there’s one thing you want from beauty product packaging what would it be?”

Hot off the press is Shaping Beauty’s Future , Steve’s feature article for SPC Magazine, which analyses the role of structural packaging in building a branded presence.

The Fragrance Foundation recently ran a practical and fun Marketing of Fragrance course for marketers at House of Fraser's HQ. Our very own Nick helped out for the second year in a row.

This month Packaging News published an interesting article on male grooming. Have a look and see what Steve says on the subject.

Packaging News loved our work with STOP so much that it published a one-page case study all about it.

If you thought Salon International at London's Excel centre was a trade show only for all things hair related, think again. Sure, there's lots about hair, including fabulous haircare products and styling. Then there's the rest to go with it. 

Steve and Sara attended the Beauty Trends & Innovations Conference recently. An exciting (and packed) line up of speakers, including some of the most innovative names in the UK beauty industry, held much promise.

Our new work for Dr Darren McKeown launches today, to be sold exclusively at Space NK Apothecary.

We're absolutely thrilled that our hair care range work for Josh Wood and Marks & Spencer  has been shortlisted by the Pure Beauty Awards in the Best New Design & Packaging category.

Winners will be selected through a public vote – so if you like what you see, please feel free to vote for it here

Not only are we super proud of how it looks, but it's selling like hot cakes – four months in and sales value and volume are running +161% ahead of targets.

Fingers crossed when the winners are announced on 30 October!

Read Steve's latest article on his recent trip to the InnoCos Beauty Leaders Innovation Summit. 

Our Client Services Director, Sara, recently made a trip to The Beauty Project at Selfridges. Read her thoughts in our latest blog post. 

This month sees the launch of our packaging redesign for Waitrose Pure, the retailer’s own label skincare range.

Our work for a new premium range of haircare and colouring products by the acclaimed colourist Josh Wood is hitting the shelves this month.

This week we welcomed Jane Cunningham aka British Beauty Blogger,  über beauty blogger, journalist for the Metro and the woman behind one of the UK’s most popular beauty blogs, to our studio for a Q&A session.  We picked her brains for an insight into the beauty industry and blogging scene and she wasn’t backward in coming forward with stories.  Here’s a summary of the highlights, from the horses mouth, so to speak.

Do you have a large hippocampus? If you are super-sensitive to smell and frequently get snippets of memory from a familiar yet unexpected scent, then the likely answer is yes. While perfumers such as Jo Malone, Roja Dove and Francis Kurkdjian have turned their exceptional brain formation into highly successful businesses, the actual scent is only half the job. The rest of us have to work a little harder to deconstruct the mystique of bottled scent and the art of seduction that brands in this category have to play with their consumers to persuade them to exchange their cash for a great perfume in a beautifully-designed bottle.