We believe in the potential of the forgotten, the underappreciated, and the smaller things that get lost in the noise. MakeGood works with what is already there, applying innovation and creative re-production to turn original ideas, consumer excess and waste, discarded personal effects and ‘bric-a-brac’ into relevant, necessary products and services. We merge design thinking and sustainable restoration with soft-marketing to find audiences for forgotten ideas and material product. We’ve spent forty years making things better – repairing, upcycling, and giving outdated, unseen resources and useful things the second life they deserve.

It’s not re-cycling, it’s the recognition that something that was made well but badly or inadequately marketed, designed or presented, still has real value. We just need to show and promote it properly.

Our services are offered at cost, with proceeds and income from restoration projects and creative product passed directly to the makers and creators to cover their costs and renumeration for skills and time spent, with a small percentage commission on product or service supporting MakeGood.

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Packaging Design · Display and Exhibition · Design · Artwork · Print & Production · Photography · Craft · Illustration · Workshops · Photomontage · Mock-ups · Product Placement · Curation · Exhibitions · Spacial Design · Event Organising · Photo and Imagery Stock · Periodical Publishing · Web and Print Design · Large Format Signage · Projection · Presentation

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A World of Waste

Waste from excessive consumption has become a serious and global environmental problem, stemming from unsustainable production, over-consumption, and careless disposal of contaminated everlasting plastics and other waste materials.
Most of the products, utilities, and appliances we purchase and use today are manufactured, used, and thrown away, in many cases on the same day. We are at the point where waste generation threatens to exceed the planet’s management capacity. 

But, things we reuse, upcycle, repair or recycle – unsold clothing (fashion waste), surplus homeware, cheap and cheerful things designed for purposes they never quite served. Flea market finds without immediate context or place. Industrial salvage with obvious beauty. These things aren’t waste, they’re potential inventory waiting for renewed appreciation.

At MakeGood we make, repair, restore, source, select, adapt, enhance, print, dye, mount, frame, wire, sew, and offer for sale or exchange personal and community items that otherwise would end up in landfills or criminally dumped in protected environments.
In our workshops, at pop-up shows & tells, and through makers, we share skills and methodology to help encourage fair trade, care for our natural environment, and slow down the relentless overuse and consumption of natural resources.

Talk to us and we’ll make it better…
Send us your thoughts, wishes or requests. All of our consultancy, identity, commerce and communications services are available online when and as you need them.