Haylett Discovery Ltd is a small design practice working across identity, environments and digital product. We take briefs seriously, ask the awkward questions early, and hand over work that holds up in production.
Discuss a project
A note on how we work
We would rather write one honest paragraph about a decision than present thirty variations of it.
Every project leaves a paper trail: what we found, what we ruled out, and why the final route was chosen. It makes the work easier to defend internally, and far easier for someone else to pick up later.
No theatre, no unnecessary decks — outputs you can circulate internally and argue with.
Listening to the brief, the constraints and the people who will live with the result. Findings are written down, never implied.
Output — Written findings
Research becomes a short, plain-language direction: what the work must do, what it will not do, how success is recognised.
Output — One-page direction
Options drawn, made and reviewed in the open. A few well-argued routes rather than a wall of variations.
Output — Reviewed routes
Artwork, specifications and guidance handed over in usable form, with support through production so intent survives the build.
Output — Production files
The pieces below are self-initiated, illustrative concepts, shown to demonstrate method and craft rather than to claim results. Client work is shared privately on request.
Identity system
Study 01
A self-initiated identity study for an imagined environmental research body: a geometric mark built on a visible grid, a restrained ivory and green palette, and a printed guideline booklet that a non-designer could follow.
Wayfinding family
Study 02
A speculative wayfinding family for a mixed-use civic site: panel geometry, a single accent stripe, and a tested sequence of decision points that carries a first-time visitor without reading every word.
Internal method
Study 03
An in-house method for recording and comparing substrates across projects, so specification decisions can be justified in writing rather than repeated out of habit.
Most engagements begin with one of these and grow. We are glad to work alongside an existing team, agency or contractor.
Naming systems, visual identity, typographic direction and the guidelines that keep it coherent as an organisation grows.
Design for physical settings — signage families, material palettes and the details that make a place legible on first visit.
Interface design grounded in real tasks: structure first, then component systems developers can build from without guesswork.
Discovery work that tests assumptions before budgets are committed — interviews, audits and clearly written recommendations.
Haylett Discovery Ltd is registered in England and Wales under company number 16578426, with its office in Bedford. The practice is organised around design activities: research, drawing, specification, and the unglamorous work of seeing something through to production.
We keep the team small on purpose. The people you meet at the first conversation are the people doing the work, and decisions are made in hours rather than weeks.
We are open about what we have not done before. Where a project needs a specialist — a fabricator, a developer, a planning consultant — we will say so and help you find one.
Contact
A short email is enough to begin — the problem, roughly when it needs to be solved, and anything already decided. We reply to every genuine enquiry.
Enquires@Haylettdiscovery.com