Good ideas, properly made.

Digital products,
websites and brands.

Beatnik is an independent studio working across digital products, websites and brands. I’m David Haigh, and I work directly with organisations from early thinking through to design and delivery.

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Trusted by startups, councils and cultural organisations

Method

Four stages, one loop.
You can come in at any point

01.

Learn
+ Discover

Before we design anything, we find out what's actually going on. Research, audits, workshops and stakeholder conversations: the unglamorous work that stops you building the wrong thing.

02.

Define
+ Brief

Insight only matters once it becomes a decision. We turn research into strategy: a roadmap, a business case, a brief clear enough that nobody downstream is guessing.

03.

Design
+ Delivery

I stay involved as the plan becomes a working website, product or identity. Where specialist help is needed, we agree the people and scope, with me keeping the work connected to the original brief.

04.

Monitor
+ Improve

I can stay involved after launch through retained direction, reviewing what’s working, adjusting the plan with you and feeding what we learn back into the next round of decisions.

What Beatnik creates

Brands, websites and digital products that help people explore, connect and engage. Beatnik works with cultural organisations, tourism destinations, startups and sports brands, bringing strategy, design and technology together around what people need.

Selected work

David Haigh working at Beatnik Studio

About Beatnik Studio

You work directly with me.

I’m David, the designer and consultant behind Beatnik. No account managers, no handoffs. I’m with you from the first conversation to launch, and I bring in trusted specialists when a project needs them.

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Experience

Public Sector, Place & Culture

  • Gateshead Council
  • Northumbria University
  • Teesside University
  • Pilgrim
  • Inkcap
  • Index Music
  • Marvel Hall

Technology & Innovation

  • APOYAR
  • RealSafe Technologies
  • OneXP
  • Red Rover Interactive
  • Tag Games
  • Firestoke Group
  • YMA Systems
  • Phrase Path

Engineering & Industry

  • Vertu Motors
  • ROSEN UK
  • Renewable Energy Network
  • 360 Group
  • Pipeflex Systems
  • Arc Environmental
  • Northumbria Lifts

Hospitality & Leisure

  • Tokyo Industries
  • Lobo Rojo
  • Crusoe's Tynemouth
  • The Grand Hotel
  • The View
  • Ateesh
  • Di Meo's
  • Mambo's
  • The Lock Up

Professional Services

  • HM3 Consulting
  • DUO Global Consulting
  • Stable State Consulting
  • DeRonde
  • Black & White Recruitment

Health & Wellbeing

  • OptiMe Wellbeing
  • Islestone Pharmaceuticals
  • Positive Care & Support
  • Deconstar
  • Psych-Logical / Chuse
  • St Anthony of Padua

Consumer & Retail

  • Lines Behind
  • Gear Guardians
  • Modrec
  • Fat Cow Skincare
  • Skin Sculpt
  • Tango Group

Creative & Agencies

  • Zaltek Digital
  • Venture Stream
  • Komodo Digital
  • Flow Digital
  • Stingray Digital
  • Newcastle Video Company

Got something that needs figuring out?

Tell me what you’re working on, what’s not working, or where you’re stuck. I’ll have a look and we can work out whether I can help.