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This month my business turned five. That's not a sentence I ever thought I would write. I was never one of those designers that dreamed...

To create great content that moves people to action, you need the perfect balance of words and pictures.

75 years on and some of these World War 2 propaganda posters still have a powerful message to deliver.

Today I'm celebrating not winning a pitch. And here's why...

The other day someone asked me how many logos I had designed in my career. The answer is probably a couple of hundred. Brands, rebrands,...

Just a taster of some of the projects I have been working on recently. From branding and brand guidelines to infographics and artwork, I...

Back in April 2016 whilst working for a media agency I started a little creative challenge to see how many phrases I could come up with...

Before I started freelancing I spent years working at different design agencies. And the one thing that was guaranteed to make my heart...

This week I got asked to attend a networking event. I’ve been to a few of these in the past and have not really had a great deal of...

When I quit the day job a year ago for a life of freelance, I had no idea how it would work out. Here's a 64-second roundup in animated...

As the headline suggests, this is not one of my usual light-hearted musings on the life of a freelance designer or the importance of...

Over the last few weeks, the BBC has been showing a documentary called Flatpack empire. Their cameras were allowed unprecedented access...

There's no denying the power of a well-designed infographic. According to Hubspot, research has shown that they are 'liked' and shared 3x...

I've written a couple of blogs recently on my experiences of becoming a freelance designer. So here I am six months in and still managing...

What's the point of being a designer if you don't practice what you preach with your own brand? So I made a 40-second animation to let...

A few weeks ago I wrote a blog about my first tentative steps as a freelance designer. Now I'm a couple of months further in, I thought I...

I think I’m probably quite unusual among my peers in that I have never really aspired to the freelance life. I’ve always enjoyed working...

So what is a brand? Is it just another name for your logo? A brand is never just a logo. It’s the sum of all the parts of your business....

Storytelling is about painting pictures. It's about being able to convey to your reader an image that transports them somewhere else....

What did we spend our money on in 2016? At the start of last year, I wrote a blog on the retail trends of 2015 and just what is was we...