Meet the Toast Food team
The people behind the work.
We are Toast
Toast Food brings together strategists, designers, developers, writers and digital specialists with experience across food, drink, FMCG and foodservice.
We’re part of the wider Toast team, which means we can bring different specialists into a project as and when they’re needed.
And you’ll work directly with the people doing the work.
Our Team
Chris Tymon
Creative Director, Co-founder
Adam Buttress
Creative Director
Mark Williams
Production Director, Co-founder
Justin Brown
Designer
Anzonie Carpenter
Designer
Alex Roe
Designer
Simon Browne
Strategy & Positioning
Lilli Foreman
Copywriter
David Foreman
Managing Director, Co-founder
Charlotte Brown
Head of Digital
Aaron Jones
Lead Developer
Devan Cadman
Web Support Manager
Kati Lacey
Content Manager
Max Campbell
Developer
Janine Burgess
Bookkeeper
A multidisciplinary creative team
Building and growing a food brand involves lots of different skills.
- Strategy
- Naming
- Brand identity
- Packaging
- Copywriting
- Photography
- Campaigns
- Websites
- Search
- Digital
Rather than pretending one person is brilliant at all of them, we have specialists across the agency who work together.
The team we put around your project depends on what you’re trying to achieve.
Work directly with us
No unnecessary layers.
We don’t believe every conversation needs to pass through an account manager before reaching the person actually doing the work.
Our clients work directly with the designers, developers, writers and specialists involved in their projects.
If you want to discuss the packaging, you can talk to the designer working on it.
If you’ve got a question about your website, you can speak to the digital team.
If we’re working with you on an ongoing basis, the people involved get to know your business and brand properly.
Less interpretation. Less repetition. Faster answers.
Brand and creative
Our brand and design team works across strategy, identity, packaging, campaigns, print and ongoing brand application.
They might be developing a completely new food brand one day and rolling an established identity across a new product range the next.
That combination of conceptual and practical experience is important.
We like creating brands.
We also know how to make them work once they’ve been created.
Packaging expertise
Packaging is where many of our disciplines come together.
- Brand strategy
- Identity
- Typography
- Copy
- Product hierarchy
- Artwork
- Production
Our designers understand that packaging has to survive outside the studio.
It needs to communicate quickly, work across ranges, accommodate required information and ultimately become something that can actually be produced.
Digital and search
Toast has an established in-house digital team covering website design, WordPress development, ecommerce, content, SEO and emerging AI search visibility.
That means our food and drink clients don’t need to take a newly created brand to an unrelated web agency once the packaging is finished.
The same wider team can take the identity online and continue supporting the website after launch.
Content and copy
Our writers work across brand messaging, tone of voice, packaging, websites, campaigns and search content.
They work alongside the designers and digital team rather than operating as a separate content department.
That’s particularly useful when the words and design need to solve the same problem.
Which, generally, they do.
Experienced people using modern tools
The way creative teams work is changing.
Our team combines traditional design expertise with modern creative technology.
That includes AI-assisted research, ideation, visual exploration, image generation and content workflows where those tools can improve the process.
We’re interested in what technology allows experienced creative people to do better.
Not in replacing experienced creative people.
Our designers still make the decisions.
Our writers still edit the words.
Our developers still write the code.
Technology gives them additional ways to explore, iterate and solve problems.
The wider Toast team
Toast Food also draws on designers, developers, production specialists and support staff from across Toast Design Consultancy.
That gives us additional creative capacity when projects grow, deadlines tighten or a particular specialist is required.
Big enough to bring specialists in. Small enough to know your brand.
Having access to different disciplines is useful.
Having fifteen people in every meeting isn’t.
We’ll put the people you actually need around the project.
For a new brand that might mean a strategist and senior designer initially, with packaging, copy and digital specialists joining as the project develops.
For an established brand, it might mean a small core team that gets to know the identity and handles ongoing creative requirements.
The team should fit the work.
An independent agency since 1997
Toast Design Consultancy was established in 1997.
Since then the team and the technology we use have changed considerably, but we’ve remained an independent agency.
That gives us the freedom to evolve the way we work, invest in new capabilities and build long-term relationships with clients.
Some clients need us for one project.
Others work with us for years.
We’re happy with both.