Art
Ultimate Holding Company is a Manchester based collective exploring the modern city through critical cross disciplinary art practice.
Click here to browse a selection of our projects and commissions.
Design
Ultimate Holding Company offers ethical graphic design services for print and web.
We specialise in turning artist-led concepts into ethical design solutions, exclusively for organisations driven by their values not their profits. Browse our portfolio of products and projects.
Politics
UHC was born out of a desire to see a greener, fairer world.
We are a unique studio bringing together the best in art, design and environmental action. It’s all about the ideas and we want to share them with you.
Ultimate Holding Company (UHC) was founded in 2003 and in the same year gained nationwide critical attention went it opened a working replica of the US internment facility 'Camp X-Ray' on land earmarked for regeneration in Inner city Manchester. 'This Is Camp X Ray' has set the tone for the Collective's subsequent projects in its ambition, radical approach and choice of challenging contemporaneous subject matter.
In 2007 UHC were awarded the Art Gene Open Prize for their projects People's Tower for Manchester and The Thin Veneer of Democracy. Both are representative of UHC's ongoing interest in making work which interrupts neo-liberal control of city space, specifically seeking to challenge acceptance of the private enclosure of 'public' space, through temporary acts of disclosure. These works employ a mixture of architecture, performance, and sculptural intervention, in search of a new urban environmentalism.
Ultimate Holding Company has built a solid reputation as the North West's most ethical supplier of design services for print and web. Combining our skills as visual artists, designers and environmental campaigners allows us to create work that is visually stunning, professionally executed and produced to the highest environmental standards.
We run a busy studio in the centre of Manchester, with a dedicated friendly design team and account managers working with social enterprises, cultural and voluntary sector groups, small businesses and large international campaigning organisations.
Unlike any other design studio in the UK, we only offer our services to organisations driven by their values.
We believe that those with the best intentions deserve the best in design.
Ultimate Holding Company are committed to sustainable practices, ethical and responsible business, and design driven grass roots collaboration.
We are creative innovators of campaign strategies and community-led events that go beyond the usual solutions when seeking to engage a hard to reach audience. We like to work off-grid, to generate our own power. We like to take risks and question preconceptions. We also have tons of experience promoting projects and making a little go a long way.
Ultimate Holding Company have decades of experience as change-makers in the not-for-profit sector. We are constituted as a workers co-op and operate as a social enterprise.
If you think we can help you create change in your organisation or you have a unique project that needs unique creative input. You're in the right place.