About us
Our mission is to create a design and print experience small businesses can enjoy. We offer flat rate design, and low minimum order quantities through our online store. This means any business, no matter what size, has access to quality, professional branding.
At Long Story Short we believe we are different, because we are just like you.
Long Story Short Print are a full service design and print business that helps to make branding simple, accessible and enjoyable for all business sizes. We have curated an end to end experience that makes it simple for us, to make it simple for our customers. This allows us to charge affordable rates, while being quick, efficient and still maintaining the highest quality.
We aren’t a budget airline requiring our customers to include all the added extras to get what they need. Our flat rates, along with our package options are clear and simple, with no hidden nasties. They are created to tailor to all different needs, from branding for new businesses, product package labels for already established businesses and even social media branding to tie it all together. Our customers don’t need to feel that they need to be branding experts to be able to get started.
At LSS we think differently, we believe that it is the business owner who should ultimately decide what it is that is important to them in their branding. That’s why we aren’t here to tell our customers how their brand should look, or question what they want. Our customers decide what they need, and we deliver.
Be yourself, everyone else is already taken - Oscar Wilde
OUR MISSION IS TO CREATE A DESIGN AND PRINT EXPERIENCE SMALL BUSINESSES CAN ENJOY.
We are here to help our customers take the risks that they have been a little bit afraid to take, and to have a shot even if things don’t all make sense. Life is an adventure, and adventure is taking chances even if there is no guarantee of what could happen, after all, isn’t that the excitement of it?!
Not every idea is going to be a good idea, not every idea is going to pay off, but you know what? That’s okay! You never know if you never take a chance. At LSS we help our customers take that chance without all the strings attached. We accept that not every new business is going to have a solid plan, and to get started, sometimes all our customers need are some beautiful prints, whether that be labels, flyers, or business cards! That’s why we are dedicated to helping businesses of all shapes and sizes, as we were not all designed to fit the one mould.
“The biggest risk is not taking any risk….In a world that is changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks” – Mark Zuckerberg
We did what we encourage all business dreamers to do - we had an idea, and we ran with it.
We noticed that there was a gap in the market for small to medium high quality print runs, and we jumped on the opportunity to provide businesses with this option that we believe is such an important element to get started.
We began as just two ladies with a vision, one product in our range and one small printer under Cynthia’s staircase. Fast forward five years, and we now have two printing studios with several state of the art machines, and a full design and print team, consisting of our permanent team as well as several freelancers.
At long story short print we see branding like a book, each page has different imagery and different sentences.
Alone these elements all tell a different story, but when read from start to end, they amount to a story. A story with characters and a plot, just like a brand. The job of good branding is to make sure that no matter which page your customers read, they can see this story, recognise your character and trust in what you are about. Good branding is simple, succinct and streamlined through every area of your business.
BUT – we aren’t hear to tell you how YOUR brand should look.
We want you to tell us how you see your brand, and we will bring that vision to life for you.
We are not here to create your brand for you, what we are here to do is listen to what you want for your brand, and help you write that story.