Stay close
While we’re working together, we’re part of your team. We get to know the people, understand how the business really works and make the work with you, not from a distance.
Driving Brands On. We work with people who care about what they’re making. We get to the heart of it, give it a clear shape and make it real.
Drove
/drəʊv/ noun
A group of animals brought together and moving with shared purpose.
Why Drove exists
We started Drove because we wanted to stay close to the work and the people behind it. To think, make and decide together, and see a good idea all the way through to something real in the world.
Most companies already have something worth believing in. It might be clear in someone’s head or felt across the team, but not yet easy to explain.
We help get it out into the open. We work out what matters, what doesn’t, and give the whole thing a clear shape.
Whether you’re making something new or changing something established, the aim is the same: make it feel true to the people behind it and clear to the people it’s for.
Small by choice
Close to the Work. Close to the Work.
Close to the People. Close to the People.
Drove started with a simple idea: the people doing the work should be close to the people making the decisions. Things are clearer, quicker and generally better that way.
In bigger agencies, it’s easy for distance to creep in. You speak to one team, another team does the work, and good thinking gets lost somewhere in between.
We keep that gap small. You work directly with us from the first conversation to the finished thing, so everyone has the context to make better decisions together.
It’s better for the work, and a much nicer way to get there.
How we’re set up
We’re a small team, and we like it that way. You work directly with us, and when a project needs something we don’t do, we bring in good people we know and trust, people we think of as extensions of our family.
We don’t take on more projects than we can properly look after. It gives us the time and headspace to do each one justice.
We learnt our craft at some of the world’s best agencies. Drove is what we’ve brought with us. It’s also what we’ve chosen to do differently.
The people you meet are the people thinking, designing and making.
What matters to us
Say what we think
We listen, explore and show you how we got there. But you’re not hiring us to sit on the fence. We’ll tell you what we think and why.
Show the work
We don’t disappear for weeks and come back with a grand reveal. We share things as they take shape, talk them through and make them better together.
Care about it
We do our best work with people who care about what they’re making. People who are open, honest and willing to have a proper conversation when it matters.
One idea, carried through
Brand sits at the heart of everything.
Brand
A clear position, distinctive identity and useful system.
Digital
Websites and products that make the brand coherent and alive.
Place
Experiences that carry the same idea into space, atmosphere and material.
Who we work best with
Something real. Ready to move.
Conviction
You believe in what you’re making and you’re ready to back it.
Involvement
The people making the big decisions are part of the process and have time for the work.
Trust
We can be honest with each other, challenge things when they need challenging and make the work better as we go.