About Tom Hampson
Reforma founder Tom Hampson is a graphic designer, creative director and brand strategist with an interest in progressive change – in society and in organisations.
He has over 20 years of experience in strategic communications, branding, graphic design, editorial work, political analysis, public policy research and business development. Tom recently completed Shillington College’s highly-respected graphic design diploma. (You can see some of his student work at tomhampson.com.)
Having read English Literature at Trinity College, Cambridge, Tom began his career running media communications – first at the political think tank Demos from 1997 and then at the communications agency Hobsbawm Macaulay where he worked with social issues clients. Tom then founded the Press Company, a media communications and design consultancy, and ran it for eleven years.
He worked for the Fabian Society in Westminster as editorial director for six years, commissioning, editing and designing all Fabian books, policy reports, pamphlets and magazines as well as writing and speaking on behalf of the Society in print, online and on TV and radio.
Strategic communications
In 2012, Tom became a partner at the policy communications agency Soapbox. As creative director he managed the 15-strong design team across two sites while running strategic design jobs and large branding projects for clients like the Overseas Development Institute, the Stockholm Environment Institute, the Nuffield Foundation and the Cooperative Party.
During this time he also launched and chaired the monthly WonkComms Breakfast Club seminars for policy communications professionals including chairing a special event at the Brookings Institution in Washington DC.
In 2020, Tom founded the branding and design studio Reforma with the aim of developing brand identities in a new way.
Tom is also studying part-time for an MSc in Transactional Analysis Psychotherapy at the Metanoia Institute, where he is a member. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
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