Northstar Design Competitors

Founded in 1996, Empire Design is an award-winning creative agency specialising in film and entertainment. Based in London and New York, we create advertising campaigns for a wide range of International and US clients.

We’re international brand, design and marketing consultants that have spent the three decades helping help brave decision makers start, transform and grow highly successful consumer brands. Today our focus is on working with clients who strive to use business as a force for good. We are proud to be a BCorp. Our team comprises empathetic, highly capable, intelligent human beings who don’t use jargon or acronyms. They’re world class commercial and brand strategists, creatives, writers, producers and digital delivery experts that join us because of the quality of our work. Together we offer clients a full range of services that are designed to identify and solve the high priority problems and deliver tangible results quickly, creatively and cost-effectively. We adopt a stakeholder mentality with all our clients and have even shared risk and become equity partners with a few. We’re highly entrepreneurial and driven by a relentless pursuit of better on behalf of the consumer. We embrace the new while respecting the past which is why describe ourselves as a 30 year old startup. We’re only as good as our clients and choose to only work with businesses whose products and services we’d use ourselves. We’re not for everyone as our process is unconventional and requires significant investment in time, money and headspace from our clients. Our mantra is “think big, dive deep, swim fast”

Duncan & Grove is a playground equipment design, manufacture, and installation company with over 10 years’ experience building award-winning playgrounds. We manufacture a range of high-quality natural play equipment as well as building large bespoke playgrounds. Our products are hand crafted out of hardwood that does not require chemical treatment, so they are durable and kind to the environment. We have over 250 products in our catalogue range. We make all of our own playground equipment so we can adapt our existing products to suit your needs or we can design and build something entirely new. Flexibility and adaptability are at the heart of our business, our objective is to design what you want and build it in a way that will last. Our product range is based around natural playground equipment and is separated into two different styles: hardwood playground equipment and robinia playground equipment.