EM Design joins Dialog

Corporate communications group Dialog has merged with corporate design specialist EM Design to form a 20-strong operation. The new group, headed by Dialog founder and chairman David Locke, is named Dialog and went live on 5 January.

“We wanted to expand to give a more complete communications mix and EM Design wanted the opportunity to grow into Europe. We have clients across Europe and an office in Paris, so EM’s four designers joined us to increase our design capability,” says Dialog marketing manager Julie Heath. EM founder Michael Darby becomes managing director of the new operation.

The company will specialise in corporate identity, annual reports and internal documents.