Do you feel envious when you look at an industry leader’s marketing? Do you wish your growing SME or fledgling startup had the same level of credibility and recognition?

Is considered a safe pair of hands? or prompts an immediate association with service excellence or innovation in clients hearts and minds?

Don’t undervalue the worth of branding your company correctly. Not just the design of a logo, but the combined assets of all your marketing elements creating one consistent and powerful message. It all counts, and can be addressed at different levels and at for realistic fees

Make yours memorable, compelling, descriptive.

This month council officials in Hackney painted over a Banksy graffiti sketch from which a reworked version was derived as the cover artwork for the 2003 single Crazy Beat by the band Blur.

The artwork – a cartoon of the royal family waving from a balcony – had been left untouched on the side of a block of flats in Stoke Newington, east London, for eight years before Hackney Council intervened last week.

The owner of the building, Sophie Attrill, told the Hackney Gazette that she was devastated when she saw the wall being painted.

“I looked out the window and saw what they were doing, so I ran downstairs and I told them to stop,” said Attrill. Hackney Council said it tried to contact Attrill before ordering the artwork to be painted over, but notices asking her to remove or cover up the piece had not reached her address due to the Land Registry having the incorrect contact details.

Officials removed the sketch by Banksy – whose works have sold for hundreds of thousands of pounds – as his largest exhibition to date, in Bristol, prepared to close. The exhibition has attracted over 300,000 visitors since 13 June, raising £45,000 in museum donations, and is estimated to have been worth £10m to the local economy.

Banksy vs Bristol Museum featured more than 100 works of art. The notoriously secretive artist was reported to have been secretly adding new installations to the exhibition by night.

This shows that street art has been recognised as a true art form and maybe someone at Hackney Council should have done some more research!

After a very productive creative meeting here at Design Inc, PostSecret was mentioned as a possible source of inspiration. We often use the web as a place to expand our creativity, so with this in mind we set out for www.postsecret.blogspot.com and this is what we discovered.

PostSecret is an ongoing community art project where people mail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a postcard. This unique gallery of postcards is not only a fascinating collection of art but with each postcard the message delivered is very personal and passionate. Maybe it’s an insight into what today’s society is really like.

Everyone has a secret maybe a regret, a fear, a betrayal, a desire or a confession, and sometimes these secrets are best sent on a postcard.

Be inspired.