Paradox Creative

Paradox was formed in 2002 by David Stewart as a fresh alternative to the taxi-cab charging that was (and unfortunately still is) so prevalent in the design and advertising industry. From the beginning at our studio in the Castlegate, Aberdeen, we have always been a marketing-led design agency offering full-service capability and the same levels of skill and experience to our smaller clients, as we give to our bigger clients.

Our growth has been entirely organic from the start with no money ever being spent on advertising ourselves - instead growing purely by recommendation of our services by existing clients. We currently have c. 900 clients on our books with well over 1000 projects per year, of all sizes, being completed. From the start we took an overt view that we would not seek oil and gas sector clients - as a result we now work for a growing number of clients in this sector (such is life). There were a number of personnel changes in the early days. However, in 2006 Ian Caie joined as a designer with Karla Hall joining the following year, and Keiran Smart in 2008. Ian and Karla left in 2013 and are now at KCA Deutag and Keiran is freelancing.