Design that makes people stop, trust you and act
Updated October 2026.
Prohibition is a design agency in Leeds. Our creative studio designs brand identities, campaign assets, social and digital graphics, print, packaging and exhibitions, and because we sit inside a PR and social media agency, we design work that is built to be seen. Our creative for C4 Energy appeared at WHSmith’s London Victoria station and on the London Underground, and our animations and graphics for Saïd Business School, Oxford, lifted feed engagement by 68%.
What does a design agency do?
A design agency turns your brand and message into visuals people remember: logos and identities, campaign artwork, social and digital assets, websites, print, packaging and spaces. Good design makes you instantly recognisable and helps every other piece of marketing work harder.
What design services do we offer?
Logo Design
Logo and brand identity
A logo, colour palette, typography and guidelines that hold together everywhere your brand appears. See our branding service.
Branding
Campaign and social assets
Static, animated and video assets for social, paid media and PR campaigns, designed for each platform. See our social content service.
Website Content
Web and digital design
Landing pages, banners, email and web assets that are clear, on brand and built to convert.
Print Design
Print and out of home
Brochures, posters, point of sale and billboards. See our OOH advertising service.
Packaging Design
Packaging and exhibitions
Packs, labels and stands that stand out in a busy aisle or hall. See our packaging design and exhibition design services.
Content Marketing
Reports, white papers and animation
Designed reports and white papers, infographics and video animation that make complex ideas easy to follow.
Our design work
Recent design projects for EQUANS, Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford and C4 Energy.
EQUANS
Employer brand campaign assets, video edits and animated social posts built around real employees. The campaign delivered 156,000 clicks to the careers site at 13p each.
Saïd Business School, Oxford
Creative direction, eight animations, graphics and audio for 20 thought leadership articles for the school’s 25th anniversary. Feed engagement rose 68% and website traffic 10%.
C4 Energy
Point of sale for WHSmith, print banners on the London Underground, gym digital ads and packaging for its UK pre-workout range.
Why choose Prohibition as your design agency?
Design built to be seen
Our designers work alongside our PR, social media and video production teams, so your design comes with a plan to get it in front of people. We work on a project basis, so you do not need a retainer.
How much does design cost?
It depends on the number of assets and formats, whether you need a new identity or work within existing guidelines, animation or video, print management and how quickly you need it. We give you a written quote after a first call, or you can contact us now.
Talk to Prohibition about design
Tell us what you need designed and where it will be used. Prefer to talk? Call us on 0113 430 4160.
Our Latest Work
What is digital design?
It encompasses various elements such as graphic design, web design, user interface (UI) design, user experience (UX) design, and many more. In today’s digital age, where everything is becoming increasingly digitalized, digital design plays a crucial role in shaping how we interact with technology and how information is presented to us.
Why is digital design important?
Better Engage With Your Customers
Part of the problem for a lot of businesses is understanding how to better interact with their customers.
Digital design can help you better understand. You’re able to turn a heavy piece of content into a visualisation; an in-depth whitepaper can be compressed into key actionable points for a social media carousel, paid ads, or website infographic.
This will help you to better understand your customer on their needs and help them to better understand your product.
Create Memorable Campaigns
There are new brands popping up all the time – making your market more competitive than ever. This means there’s greater pressure for your campaign to work.
Through digital design we’re able to create memorable content that elevates your brand image for a lifetime and drives hype around your campaign; whether that’s through word-of-mouth promotion or brand mentions online.
And if you’re looking to do this at ease, our digital agency services will allow you to do this all-in-one place for greater delivery and efficiency!
Turn Your Vision Into A Reality
It sounds cliché, but digital design does bring a campaign to life.
Due to digital design being able to involve many different elements, it can show the true value of your products, offer solutions to your audiences’ questions, or highlight attention around a certain focus point – to power brand development.
Like our campaigns, we ensure our designs are relevant, on brand and in-keeping with the tone of the campaign.
Increase Your Online Presence
Creating digital content for PR, social media, or marketing campaigns provides more ways to power online performance by securing earned media.
Earned media such as online coverage, will not only grow your brand’s appeal online but your presence, reputation, and linking profile. Further encouraging consumers and media publications to talk about your digital activity online in a positive manner. Thus, making your brand more trustworthy to Google which in turn, secures better organic rankings, more sessions, and ultimately more conversions.
Support Overall Branding Experience
As with any branding material, it helps to shape the overall feel and look of your brand. And with digital having such a strong presence these days, it can also have a strong impression on your audience.
Research shows colour can boost readers’ attention span and remembrance by 82%. Even small elements such as colour themes catch a user’s eye and make them drawn to your brand, so this is a great opportunity to show and develop the personality of your brand.
77% of consumers choose to interact with brands that represent them – let it be you. Once consumers have had a positive experience with your branding, it has a positive impact on them, forming a deep and more personal connection that drives long-term brand advocacy.
Increase Reach Through Shared Content
Sharing content has never been easier than before, friends are able to share content with each other or even with strangers; whether that’s through a WhatsApp messaging chain or social sharing.
Therefore, this functionality increases your content’s reach by the masses. You’re reaching potentially millions or billions more audiences. The added benefit of this is, you can measure sentiment and gain a better understanding of public perception towards your campaign – are consumers liking your digital content?
Digestible And User-Friendly Content
You only have a short moment to grab the attention of consumers these days; on mobile, half of the users start scrolling within 10 seconds and 90% within 14 seconds.
There’s millions of pieces of content that get shared daily, so yours needs to thumb-stopping and easy to digest in order to compete. Due to the multi-format functionality of digital design, you’re able to be creative with the different content types, whether that’s an illustration, 3D design, animation, or digital billboard.
According to research, people retain 65% of the information when it’s paired with a relevant image. Working to brand guidelines, our digital designers have the ability to visualise your campaign in a succinct and inviting way.
How do we measure campaigns?
This can be measured through website analytics, social listening, ad tracking, or our cutting-edge Social 360 dashboard that uses data and insight from a host of tools to give you greater transparency on what your audience does and doesn’t like about your content.
What Sectors Do We Operate In?
We love working with every size of business to create innovative campaigns and power their brand development.
Should I integrate my campaigns?
We can apply our strategic thinking to all our services, to match all areas of your marketing and branded activity together with a clear and engaging message. Our integrated PR and marketing services is the way to achieve this.
