Brendan McMahon

Creative partner

Brendan is CGM’s creative partner which includes leading all creative projects and supplying design services which includes branding, corporate identity, website design, advertising and signage materials.

His creative talent came to light when he won a Blue Peter competition at the age of 14.

“Your design for a mural was very much admired by all,” wrote legendary editor Biddy Baxter. “With over 20,000 entries, your entry was a terrific achievement. Well done from the team, Simon, Chris, Tina and myself.”

After training at Bournville College, Brendan entered the commercial design world with legendary worldwide advertising agency McCann Erickson in Birmingham, before leaving to start his own award-winning creative design agency, Classic Lines Design (CLD) in 1996, which was originally based in Birmingham’s Jewellery Quarter but later relocated to larger studios in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire in 2005.

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Having carved out a reputation as one the UK’s leading design agencies Classic Lines Design (CLD) was accepted into The Chartered Society of Designers.

As a winner of The Drum’s Cream Awards for best corporate identity and best use of illustration, in 2012 CLD was placed in The Drum’s “DESIGN 100” – a definitive list of the top 100 UK design agencies.

In recent years, CLD has expanded its skill-base and range of services to include bespoke website design and digital solutions, alongside quality, traditional printed-media design.

Aside from managing CLD and leading creative projects at CGM, Brendan is a part time lecturer in creative illustration at Avoncroft Arts Society and has been an Enterprise Adviser at North Bromsgrove School.

He relaxes by drawing his own freedhand landscape artwork which he exhibits occasionally.