Bradley Leivars is the founder and director of Printlogik, the Derby-based print, design, and digital services company he started in 2023. He also works as a Graphic Designer at DHL Express's European Head Office, which means he spends his working life on both sides of the print desk: designing commercial work for one of the world's largest logistics brands by day, and producing print for small businesses across the UK through Printlogik.
That dual position is the foundation of everything he writes on Forge. Most of the people writing about print are either suppliers selling something or designers who've never had to actually produce the thing they specified. Bradley is both. The result is editorial that takes positions other people in the industry won't, and gives small business owners the practical context their suppliers usually skip.
Printlogik was founded on a simple frustration: too much of the print industry races to the bottom on price, quietly compromising on the things that matter. Material, finish, durability, environmental responsibility, all of it gets stripped out so the headline rate looks competitive. Bradley built Printlogik to do the opposite. Premium-grade stocks as standard, finishes that hold up, sustainability built in rather than greenwashed on top, and pricing that's transparent about what you're actually buying.
The sustainability work is structural rather than decorative. Through the Print A Tree project, in partnership with Ecologi, every Printlogik order contributes to verified environmental restoration. It's not an offset claim that papers over a bigger problem. It's one real, measurable contribution stacked alongside FSC-certified stocks, lower-waste production, and printing techniques chosen for their environmental footprint as much as their finish quality.
Today, Printlogik serves UK businesses of all sizes from a Derby base, with a product range covering more than 100 print formats: business cards, flyers, signage, packaging, exhibition systems, books, and stationery, alongside in-house design services. Forge is where Bradley writes about the decisions behind all of it.
