Spec buildBrand identityWebsiteConversion design

    C&D Security & Training

    Not a client engagement. A complete brand and website we designed and built on our own time, to show what the studio does when nobody is holding the brief.

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    Spec build

    Type

    None - our own time

    Client

    Brand + site

    Scope

    C&D Security & Training website, a Lumeops spec build

    What this is

    A spec build, and we will keep saying so

    C&D Security & Training is not a Lumeops client. This is a brand and site we designed and built ourselves, unpaid and unbriefed, because a studio should be able to show what it does without waiting for permission.

    We label it every time it appears. A spec build that gets presented as client work is a lie with a portfolio attached, and it is the reason so few agency case studies are worth reading.

    Honest labelling

    • No client, no fee, no brief
    • Tagged "Spec build" wherever it appears
    • Live so you can judge it yourself
    • Built to the same standard as paid work

    The design

    Dark, editorial, and built to convert

    The security and training sector defaults to stock photography, high-vis yellow and a form nobody wants to fill in. We went the other way: a dark editorial layout, real typographic hierarchy, and a route to enquiry that does not feel like an interrogation.

    The point of a spec build is that there is no committee. Every decision on this one is a decision we would defend in front of a paying client.