Holmes & Marchant has announced five new appointments as the design agency starts its next phase of growth under the new management team of Simon Gore, managing director and Greg Vallance, managing partner—creative.

Bob Pattni has been appointed design director, having held the same post at the Windsor-based agency 1HQ. Pattni has previous experience working as design director at Bulletproof, FutureBrand and Parker Williams.

Photo: Bob Pattni, design director at Holmes & Marchant, London

David Riddle joins as client director from creative agency Corporate Edge, where he worked for 11 years, overseeing brand identity, communication and employee engagement programmes. Riddle worked at Michael Peters for six years before that.

Charlotte MacDonald joins as account director from Identica, where she worked on innovative branding & packaging projects for a range of international markets, including Europe, Japan, the Middle East and Latin America.

Account manager Andrea Squire, joining from AGI, and junior planner Daisy Noble, previously at Neurofocus Europe, complete the new signings.

Holmes & Marchant managing director Simon Gore said: “Holmes & Marchant has been helping clients across Europe innovate & grow their brands for 45 years now. Injecting fresh talent into our experienced team is key to maintaining this performance and to reinvigorating both ourselves and our clients. In a competitive and confusing world it’s increasingly hard for brands to stand out and be remembered. We know that we need to offer clients the best people to work with to make brands and design remarkable – worth buying, worth talking about, worth buying again.”