Creative agency | Shoreditch, London
Ideas that get talked aboutnoticedremembered start at our table.
We're a 24-person creative agency in Shoreditch, founded in Istanbul in 2014. Kolaj is Turkish for collage, which is how we work: brand, campaign, film and digital made at one table, by one team.
Recent workHarbour Coffee · Plateful · Swell Festival · Stride · Allotment Tea
On the table nowSwell Festival 2026 identity
00Featured
Three from this season
A good idea still stands after it leaves the meeting room.
Hattie Monroe, creative director
4.1m
organic views from a single launch film
01Selected work
Work, with results (06)
Six projects from the last two years. Each one started with a brief, a problem and a result we measured. Click a row and we'll tell you the story.
02Services
Six desks, one team.
Instead of splitting the work across disciplines and agencies, we do all of it on one floor. The strategists are on set when the film is shot.
Average client relationship4.5 years
From the name and the logo to the typeface and the tone of voice, we work out with you how the brand looks and how it talks. You end up with guidelines your team actually opens and uses.
- Brand strategy
- Naming and strapline
- Logo and visual system
- Brand guidelines
We find one idea and carry it everywhere, from posters to film, from the shop floor to social. If the idea is sound, it holds up at the size of a stamp and the size of a building.
- Campaign idea
- Out of home
- Launch planning
We make content to be shared, not to fill a calendar. Community management, digital creative and a plain monthly performance report all live at this desk too.
- Content strategy
- Monthly content
- Community management
- Performance report
From script to grade, from six-second cut-downs to sixty-second commercials. We have our own crew and studio, and they scale up or down with the budget.
- Script and storyboard
- Shoot and direction
- Edit and grade
- Motion graphics
From campaign pages to online shops, we design and build the brand's home online. After launch we look after hosting, updates and the small improvements too.
- User research
- Interface design
- Development
- Care plans
The right budget in the right place. From planning to buying and measurement, we work from one sheet that shows where every pound went.
- Channel strategy
- Buying
- Measurement
- Monthly report
03How we work
Four steps, no surprises
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01 1-2 weeks
Listen
Briefing, a visit to where the brand lives, research into competitors and audience. First we make sure the right question is being asked; sometimes the brief changes here.
Output Strategy summary
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02 2-3 weeks
Shape
A few directions, one table. We show ideas as rough sketches rather than hiding them behind a polished deck, and pick one together.
Output Creative direction
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03 3-8 weeks
Make
Design, copy, shoots, code. We hold a half-hour check-in every Monday, so nobody is surprised on delivery day.
Output Final files
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04 90 days
Measure
We stay at the table after launch. We read the first ninety days of numbers with you, grow what works and say so when something doesn't.
Output Impact report
340+
projects delivered
24
people, all on one floor
61
awards and shortlists
87%
of clients come back for a second project
Some of the brands we work with
- Harbour Coffee
- PLATEFUL
- stride
- Swell Festival
- Allotment Tea
- green trail
- NORTHGATE BANK
- Lantern Insurance
- MERIDIAN MOTORS
- Shoreline Hotels
- millstone flour
- IVY & OAK
- Salt & Pepper Co.
- Kiln Ceramics
- BRIDGE BOOKS
- tidewater shipping
04Team
Twenty-four of us, four of them here
Strategists, writers, designers, directors and two developers. Pul, the office dog, wasn't counted.
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Zeynep Aral
Founding partner, strategy
Always turns up to a briefing with an empty notebook.
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Hattie Monroe
Creative director
Stuck the first scrap of paper on our collage wall.
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Emre Kaya
Senior copywriter
Won't hand in a headline he hasn't read out loud.
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Callum Reid
Art director
Knows the swatch book by heart, won't admit it.
- Open role We're hiring a senior copywriter Send your portfolio
05Awards & press
Awards that don't gather dust
- 2026Red Pencil AwardsStride, "First Stride" filmGold
- 2025Poster of the YearPlateful, "Hunger can't wait"Grand prix
- 2025Packaging Design AnnualAllotment Tea boxesSilver
- 2025Digital Craft AwardsGreen Trail, "Fill one more bag"Jury prize
- 2024Brand Identity BiennialSwell Festival identityShortlist
"The busiest table in Shoreditch. In a good way."
Agency Weekly, March 2026
"They know how to make the quietest box on the shelf speak up."
Design Post, November 2025
06What clients say
In their words
07Start a project
Let's put your idea on the table.
Fill in the form and someone from our new business team will call you within two working days. If the brief isn't ready yet, that's fine; the first meeting is for exactly that.
- Phone
- 020 7946 0417
- Address
- 2nd floor, 31 Rivington Street, London EC2A 3DX
- Hours
- Mon to Fri, 9.30am - 6.30pm