Until April 2000 the team worked together as the in-house Graphics Studio at Traidcraft plc, the UK's largest independent Fair Trade organisation. Following discussions about the future strategy of the business, Traidcraft decided it would no longer manage its design and print requirements in-house.

The studio team saw this as an opportunity to take their skills out to a wider market place (as well as continuing to do major work with Traidcraft) and so GHP Design was born…