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A small agency for brands that want to be felt, not just seen.

A luxury marketing and creative agency for brands where experience matters. Strategy, identity, words and digital, held together as one considered system by the person doing the work.

JUDE™ started for a simple reason: we were tired of watching brands get one half of the work and never the other. It was always a trade-off. Marketing that looked beautiful with no strategy underneath it, or strategy that arrived as a document nobody enjoyed looking at. Pretty and hollow, or clever and ugly.

Carly Mancini-Spicer, founder of JUDE™ Marketing & Creative
Meet the founder

Meet Carly

JUDE™ is led by Carly Mancini-Spicer. When you work with the agency, you work with Carly directly, on strategy, creative direction and the detail, with a small bench of trusted photographers, writers, developers and designers brought in by commission.

Carly started JUDE™ after years inside agencies and in-house teams, watching considered brands get only half the picture: beautiful work with no strategy beneath it, or sharp strategy that never became something people actually felt.

Every brand is treated as a world to be built, not a list of deliverables to be ticked off. Positioning, identity, words, photography and digital are shaped together, so the brand reads as one considered whole wherever it is met.

There is no account layer between you and the work. It is part of why the agency stays small, and why the work stays sharp: the person shaping the strategy is the person in the detail.

Carly Mancini-SpicerFounder, JUDE™

Olivia Cole brand booklet designed by JUDE™
A selection of brand identities designed by JUDE™
Lauren Alexandra label design by JUDE™

Our services

(04) The practice

Seven disciplines, one point of view. Each engagement starts with the same question: how should this brand be experienced before anyone buys, books or enquires?

I.
StrategyIdentityBrand world

Brand identity & strategy.

Positioning, messaging, identity systems and brand worlds for considered brands that need clarity before visibility. We define the feeling, language and structure the rest of the marketing will be built from.

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II.
Web designSEOEditorial

SEO & web design.

Editorial websites and search strategies built to be found, trusted and acted on. Designed for hospitality, wellness, beauty and luxury service brands that need visibility without losing atmosphere.

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III.
StrategyContentChannels

Social media & content.

Content strategy, caption writing, creative direction and channel management shaped around the brand world, not the algorithm. Social that builds recognition and reassurance over time.

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IV.
SearchSocialDisplay

Paid social & search campaigns.

Google, Meta and paid social campaigns with brand feeling and commercial discipline. The message before the spend, the creative before the click, the landing journey before the result.

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V.
PhotographyArt directionEditorial

Creative direction & photography.

Photography direction, campaign concepts, shot lists and editorial assets for brands that need imagery with atmosphere, not just output.

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VI.
EmbeddedLong-arcFractional

Ongoing marketing retainers.

An ongoing creative and marketing partnership for brands building over the long arc: strategy, content, SEO, campaigns, reporting and calm delivery in one place.

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VII.
Web appsPWAsPlatforms

App & platform development.

Custom web apps, progressive web apps, booking systems and client portals, designed to feel like the brand and built to be genuinely used. Software that earns its place on a home screen.

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VIII.
GuidelinesPrintCollateral

Graphic design & collateral.

Brand guidelines, booklets, packaging and print. The considered, tactile pieces that carry a brand off the screen and into the hand.

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Where we are

Warwickshire & Buckinghamshire, working everywhere

Based in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire and Buckinghamshire, working across the UK and worldwide.