Popping-in?

Our studio is filled with light and music.
There are multiple meeting rooms, a well stocked kitchen, and an indoor garden (with fishpond). Talk to us about access needs, environmental factors and any accommodations we might make to enhance your visit. Pop-in for tea and stay to use a spare desk for as long as you need.

11 Greenwich Centre Business Park,
53 Norman Road, Greenwich
London SE10 9QF

Cog is a Certified B Corporation

Public transport

We’re next to Greenwich train and DLR station. We have a door right on the concourse but it’s different to our postal address.

From Greenwich rail platform

This video shows the route to take from the train that will arrive at Greenwich rail station from London Bridge. There's a gentle slope next to the staircase.

From Greenwich DLR station

This video shows the route to take from the DLR that will arrive at Greenwich DLR station from Bank. There's a lift at the platform level if that's useful.

By car

If you have to come by car, we have a couple of parking spaces. We have a charging point that you are welcome to use if you have an electric car. Call ahead and we'll make sure the spaces are free. Use our postcode (SE10 9QF) to guide you in.

Get in touch

We’d love to hear from you. Use whichever medium works best for you.

11 Greenwich Centre Business Park,
53 Norman Road, Greenwich
London SE10 9QF

Cog is a Certified B Corporation

New project enquiry

It's exciting to chat about potential new projects. We don't have a ‘sales’ team or a form to fill in. Call us or give us a little detail via email and we'll get straight back to you.

enquiry@cogdesign.com

Website support

If you're a client then you'll be best served by calling us or contacting us via ClickUp, otherwise you can use this dedicated email that reaches all of the digital team.

digital@cogdesign.com

Finance questions

This email hits the inboxes of the people who deal with our bookkeeping and finances.

accounts@cogdesign.com

Just want a chat?

Sometimes enquiries don't fall neatly under a heading, do they?

hello@cogdesign.com

Cultural Calendar

A round-up of recommendations and reviews, sent on the first Friday of each month, topped-off with a commissioned image from a talented new illustrator. Sign-up and tell your friends.

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Cog News

An irregular update of activity from our studio. Showing off about great new projects, announcements, job opportunities, that sort of thing. Sign-up and tell your friends.

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Nottingham Playhouse

Producing for the producers, in a global pandemic

Nottingham Playhouse website

Website

Nottingham Playhouse is one of the UK’s leading producing theatres. With a new Artistic Director, they refocused their vision, reimagined their brand and commissioned an all-new ticketing system and website. We were brought in to help make sense of it all.

And then the pandemic hit.

The brand centres on creating high quality experiences in Nottingham, working with new writing and high profile talent to create new work.

Alongside the website project, Nottingham Playhouse were switching their CRM and ticketing to Spektrix.

After the team’s initial visit to Nottingham in February the Coronavirus pandemic hit, and challenged our ways of working. We were lucky to visit to kick off our research and were able to gain a valuable insight into the organisation. But by the time we were presenting designs travelling was out of the question.

Beginning the project in person... Beginning the project in person...
...completing the website remotely ...completing the website remotely

We took our lead from the visual styling that had been put in place by their previous design agency, and we worked with the visual identity presented by their in-house designer.

We were able to adapt our process to the new working conditions and worked through the design process to create a flexible and adaptive site. It was clear that the balance of produced work and visiting shows meant that the site had lots of different needs. 

Specific filters implemented for their variety of events Specific filters implemented for their variety of events
Announcement of Unlocked Announcement of Unlocked

Work with the community is also hugely important to the organisation and needed flexibility for the different kinds of work in that sphere.

The modular approach to page designs allowed for the breadth of this work to be showcased effectively.

The continuing uncertainty caused by Covid-19 meant that the launch of the site was delayed. However we were thrilled to launch at the same time as their new branding, and as Nottingham Playhouse announced their Unlocked Season – an innovative festival of new writing to be performed to socially distanced audiences at the same time as live streaming to homes.

This adaptive approach to the pandemic reflected the artistic vision perfectly. The team worked with local and more high profile theatre makers to create the season, which could then reach much further than the area of Nottingham.

The launch of the website as the first touchpoint for the new brand was a perfect transition, with smooth communications from the Nottingham team to handle the switch. Audiences found the new site so easy to use which generated lots of goodwill towards the new brand. A great example of how all interactions with an organisation add up to audiences feelings towards them.

The modular design meant it was easily adapted for the new circumstances Nottingham Playhouse reopened to, social distancing and online performances could be clearly communicated. 

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Communication with their existing audience Communication with their existing audience

A huge success of the new site has been the increase in donations. We utilised the Spektrix custom basket functionality to build a bespoke basket page. This integreation allowed the Nottingham Playhouse team to communicate specific donation messaging, and made donating much simpler for bookers. During the Unlocked Festival this meant 22% bookers donated within the purchase path, resulting in £9500 of donations.

We’ve been hugely proud to deliver a site that matches Nottingham Playhouse’s ambitions and to support their reopening in this tough year.

Cog were the perfect partners for launching our new website, working through the fine details to help get the best out of our new Spektrix box office system. Our audiences love our new site and they're so pleased to be able to book tickets or donate so easily.
Joanna Sigsworth, Head of Marketing and Communications
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Membership and donations as part of custom basket Membership and donations as part of custom basket
Content Management System: WordPress
Integrations: Spektrix CRM
Launched: September 2020
nottinghamplayhouse.co.uk