Established since 1992, Influence Design Associates have compiled an award winning portfolio of innovative design and communication solutions for local and national clients including, Manchester Communication Academy, La Casona restaurant, Aqua Media Solutions, Innerform, Abraham Moss City Learning Centre, Balby City Learning Centre, Virgin, Manchester City Council, The Whitworth Art Gallery, Contact Theatre, Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester Art Gallery, Queer Up North, Sykes Cottages, MCCI, MIDAS, Perkins, CIDS, Trafford Council, Ocean Software, Infogrammes, Great Universal Stores and Eidos Interactive.
Influence Design Associates are a dynamic design and communications company that deliver creative design solutions from concept to completion.

Influence provides a reliable and cost effective service using cutting edge technology to ensure a high quality end product with a fast turnaround.
Influence always strives to pioneer the best solutions possible.

Influence has collected many awards that include:
SWOT Marketing Award
DTI Regional E-Commerce Award
PYBT Best Customer Service Award
Consort International Design Awards
PYBT Business of the Year Award
Livewire Award for Best New Business
Beyond The Call Of Duty At Work Award March 2011

Our work is regularly reviewed by leading industry
publications such as:
Creative Review
Design Week
The Drum
City Life
Manchester Evening News
QA Education
Packaging News

Since establishing Influence Design in 1992, Damyon has been instrumental in the development of numerous web solutions, with cross platform marketing support in print, point of sale and ambient media. Damyon has enjoyed developing a strong focused team of like minded individuals, ensuring that solutions are always of the highest technical and creative quality.
Having vast experience in working with and for council authorities and public bodies, ensures that works are delivered to the highest and most stringent W3C web compliance standards, and inherit best practice for Search Engine Optimisation techniques.
Damyon's thorough experience in the complexities of delivering complex CMS web solutions, and his passion for working with people has resulted in Influence winning awards for their project management.
His approach and philosophy towards finding the best answers for his clients often separate him from the crowd.
Damyon enjoys the creative charge from producing work that works. With respect to the execution of design work Damyon has an obsessive eye for detail and is unable to relax until full harmony and balance is reached.
Technically and creatively his work excels, winning awards for technical and creative competency.
Damyon retains close contact with Stockport College where he studied, and Salford University, where he acts, time permitting, as a professional visiting lecturer, setting and evaluating briefs. His ambitions have always been creatively motivated, and he continues to strive for even greater levels of creative success. Read Less

The first website completed for Sykes cottages, took them from 6% online bookings to over 60% within 9 months (reducing their print spend on brochures by over 70%, reaching new markets further afield - and won the regional DTI ECommerce Award also).

A campaign we completed for arts client, Queer Up North, working with John Malpass and Jan Bradley, attracted 1.2 million hits in just one month - which meant the events they delivered were nice and busy !

For Great Universal Stores I was chosen to help them enter the 'youth market' back in the late 90's where they realised a 5.75% conversion rate from DM work, nearly quadruple the average anticipated, leading to a 17.5 million run DM, then a re-brand commission to Influence for their online output with Gary Loran's team.

Avnet's launch in Berkshire realised approximately a 150% conversion rate - at 'C' level, which honestly is unheard of. This was a multi-platform campaign promoting THE [ReSource] using teaser DM, teaser html emails, pay off DM pieces, membership cards, microsites, virtual tours, telesales campaign and so forth - congratulated as being the most successful ever externally commissioned campaign in Avnet's history, quite pleasing for us and did the trick for them too !

In 2011 I was awarded a commendation from Stockport Council for "Going Above and Beyond the Call of Duty at Work Award' - received official RAR status (placing us in the top few percent of UK agencies) and before that I was invited to St. Jame's Palace to receive from Prince Charle's Influence's award for 'Best Customer Service'.

I've been invited on panels with the world's leading designers including David Carson, won awards for print, and enjoyed reviews by national creative press regularly - I enjoy my work and enjoy sharing what I've picked up along the way with universities and colleges across the NorthWest as a professional guest lecturer, setting and evaluating at degree level through to BTEC. Read Less

I introduced ‘Basecamp’ to manage client projects in 2007, which enables a new level of organisation with relation to work flow and communication with customers and suppliers.
This system enables clients to log in and see exactly what stage their project is at, they can view the latest proof, add a milestone to a to-do, comment on the latest round of amends and even upload copy and images for use. This universal system means that deadlines are clear, all content is in one place and all proofs and discussions are available for everyone to see. Read Less