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Ball & Socket Creative branding agency. Activate to Captivate. A new breed of creative agency, we activate brands to captivate audiences.

Check out our latest for the cook-at-home range. We've embraced a bright, modern, and casual colour palette that enca...
28/03/2025

Check out our latest for the cook-at-home range. We've embraced a bright, modern, and casual colour palette that encapsulates the essence of a relaxed pizza night in. Adding a touch of uniqueness, we went for a hand-rendered typography style and teamed up with the talented for bespoke illustrations that bring the Caramico pizza passion to life.

This design evolution is more than just aesthetics. It captures the fun and casual nature of enjoying pizzas at home, highlighting unique selling points such as the sourdough base, the hand-stretched process, and stone-baked perfection. Designed to be impactful on shelf, immediately offering consumers the important details such as cooking and serving instructions at a glance. It also puts a spotlight on the creative flavour combinations and unique preparation methods the Caramico team has developed to make this product exceptional. The design evolution efficiently and powerfully conveys the product's narrative in a competitive supermarket landscape.

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Feast your eyes 🤩 on our new design for Plant-Based Meal Pots! 🌈 We took their existing colour palette to the next...
13/07/2023

Feast your eyes 🤩 on our new design for Plant-Based Meal Pots! 🌈 We took their existing colour palette to the next level 💥 by styling each wholesome ingredient used in each recipe in a symmetrical pattern to communicate the goodness in every pot 🤤 Watch out for on the photography shoot in our stories today ...

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We created Outdoor Advertising as part of retail range brand book update and it's been a joy to work on 🥗✨ Once we'd c...
30/06/2023

We created Outdoor Advertising as part of retail range brand book update and it's been a joy to work on 🥗✨ Once we'd created the new photography style we worked with and on art direction for every single product in the range 😅 Here's a sample of the summer shoot we did which went live recently ... keep an eye on our stories today for some behind the scenes. 📸

We've been busy little 🐝s here, working on the Brand Book for retail range. We worked across everything from the update...
29/06/2023

We've been busy little 🐝s here, working on the Brand Book for retail range. We worked across everything from the updated typography suite, colour palette, tone, photography style, illustration suite, updated communication suite examples and I'm not going to lie ... we are super proud of the entire year of hard work. 😅 You're also getting a sneak peak here of some of the packaging work ... but more on that later ...

It's been an epic project and these visuals barely represent the volume we've been working through. Luckily we had plant-power 🥦✨ to keep the energy levels up, we sampled plenty of this delicious range as 'research' ... and we can confirm, they are completely delish!

🏆 We Won! Delighted that were awarded Gold today in the Shop in Shop category for Caramico in the 2020 POPAI UK & Irelan...
03/12/2020

🏆 We Won! Delighted that were awarded Gold today in the Shop in Shop category for Caramico in the 2020 POPAI UK & Ireland Awards. 🥂

Judges included retail and brand marketeers from companies such as Boots, P&G, Unilever, Greencore, Kellogg's, B&Q and Sonos,

Congratulations to L'Oreal who were awarded Silver & Bronze in this category too.

The POPAI awards celebrate the role of retail marketing in all areas of shopper engagement and best in class retailing. Celebrating creativity, innovation and excellence in-store and throughout the shopper experience.

07/10/2020

Thrilled to have been nominated in the Popai UK & Ireland Awards for our work on Caramico Authentic Italian Pizza for Musgrave. These awards celebrate creativity, innovation and excellence in-store and throughout the shopper experience. Roll on December 3rd for the virtual awards ceremony 🥂🍾

Our work for Montana Ridge coffee spans across a wide range. This project involved working through the coffee blend rang...
19/06/2020

Our work for Montana Ridge coffee spans across a wide range. This project involved working through the coffee blend range from specific regions and creating a bright, modern, everyday appeal for the packs. The original branding and packaging we created for their single origin range currently retail in the US market.

our trip down the Frank and Honest memory lane continues ... developing the design from takeout cups to retail packagi...
04/06/2020

our trip down the Frank and Honest memory lane continues ... developing the design from takeout cups to retail packaging for beans and coffee pods. Pulling a consistency from the classic cup design through to supermarket shelves.

- today is a celebration of a client we have had a long relationship with Frank and Honest We have worked through the ...
04/06/2020

- today is a celebration of a client we have had a long relationship with Frank and Honest We have worked through the natural evolution over the last number of years informing the brand style instore – from stand alone coffee machines to entire cafés ...

to our branding work for Frank and Honest. We have worked with the brand since it's inception. Created at a time when ...
04/06/2020

to our branding work for Frank and Honest. We have worked with the brand since it's inception. Created at a time when a whole world of coffee aficionados had opened up. The landscape created by the coffee connoisseur left a trail of confused consumers in it’s wake. And herein lay our insight, the coffee consumer that wanted a very good coffee with none of the drama.

And so Frank and Honest was born, the down-to-earth coffee company that served a decent cup of brew. The approachable brand that might even help you understand the difference between the froth in a latte and a cappuccino without boring you to death – because it’s just a cup of coffee after all. We worked on distilling that feeling into our brand identity system, from the logo, colours and materials, typography and most importantly our tone of voice. We remain part of the brand guardian team to this day.

To tell the story of Green Kitchen – ingredients sourced with care from Irish suppliers where possible, a team passionat...
02/06/2020

To tell the story of Green Kitchen – ingredients sourced with care from Irish suppliers where possible, a team passionate about provenance and how it’s grown as well as how their flavours combine to make something seemingly mundane wow the tastebuds, we commissioned a suite of supporting photography to help us tell our ingredient story. We told their story across their social media channels, not just focusing on range but also on the process of ingredient sourcing and flavour combinations.

Proud to share our work on the Green Kitchen brand evolution. Fresh, chopped while you wait, bursting with goodness and ...
02/06/2020

Proud to share our work on the Green Kitchen brand evolution. Fresh, chopped while you wait, bursting with goodness and no compromise on flavour. The team worked with experts in the salad industry to refine their menu and needed a brand evolution that would help them tell their story. Evoking all the freshness, all the naturalness and all the down-to-earth feels that a salad brand needs.

We created a brand that conjured up all the wholesomeness of their healthy leaves. Of course green was going to be on the colour palette but by selecting a modern hue with a contemporary set of vibrant shades we were able to contrast without being predictable. We needed a materials palette that was pure, neutral and felt handmade and light. This paired with our colour palette has created a brand that embodies goodness to go.

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