About The Higgs Design Co.

The Business

Our core business is designing beautiful, usable and engaging websites. From single page designs, to large-scale web applications, we provide a complete package of services.

We also offer a range of other professional services including branding, email marketing and design for print.

We enjoy building close, long-term working relationships with our clients, and have a reputation for quality, honesty and reliability.

Andy Higgs, Creative Director & Founder

I run a small and creative firm based in Birmingham’s Jewellery Quarter.

I worked on my first commission when I was 16 years old; five years later I turned my part-time interest into a full-time occupation and started the company.

A finalist for Audi Young Designer of the Year in 2003, I graduated from Loughborough University with a BA Hons. in Industrial Design & Technology in 2006.

In the same year, I wrote a dissertation on Web Accessibility in UK Small Businesses; which was one of the first pieces of academic writing on the subject.

I have co-founded a number of other enterprises, including BeTheInvestor, a pitch-based business competition for young entrepreneurs, and Crisis Cover, a business protection web application.

I am an active member of the Midlands-based web-industry group, Multipack, and through this I am regularly involved in related events including Geek In The Park and a.green:focus.

A technology and motorsport fanatic, I also suffer wanderlust, which has taken me to Taiwan, Tibet, Malaysia, Nepal, Canada, Australia and Japan, and a few other places too.

Photo & social media icons by Paul Lloyd.

Who We’ve Done Work For

We’ve worked with organisations as diverse as fledgling start-ups, to some of the largest and most well known businesses in the UK.

If you have a project we could help you with, drop Andy a note.

Where We Work: The Jewellery Qtr.

This creative and industrial district of Birmingham has played workshop to some of the world’s greatest designers, engineers and innovators over the past three-hundred years.

From the development of the steam engine, to the discovery of plastics, creativity continues to thrive in this modest square mile.

Dan Newns, Developer

Dan joined us in 2011 as our lead developer. A keen runner, his own project www.runnerslife.co.uk commands a substantial following in the athletics community.

He gained his degree at University of Glamorgan, then spending three years travelling and working around the world before moving back to the UK and pursuing a full time career in web development.