Questions clients ask

Working together

Are you available for freelance work?

Yes. I’m available for freelance brand, editorial, presentation and digital design projects, working with brands, agencies and in‑house teams.

Where are you based, and do you work remotely?

I’m based in Hornsea and London in the UK, and work remotely with clients worldwide.

How do we start a project together?

Email a short description of your project and what you’re trying to make clear. I reply to every genuine enquiry, usually within two working days, to discuss scope, timing and the best way to help.

What should we include in the brief?

Four things help most: what the project is and who it’s for, the deliverables you need, rough timings with any fixed deadlines, and a budget if you have one in mind.

Do you work with agencies as well as direct clients?

Yes. I work directly with brands and in‑house teams, and through agencies. Agencies I’ve freelanced for include Golin and Group SJR, and I was previously a designer at Ogilvy.

Can you join our team for a longer period?

Yes. I worked with VERO as an embedded freelance design partner for 18 months, and inside Korn Ferry’s marketing team as a freelance creative.

What I design

What kind of design work do you take on?

Brand identity and guidelines, reports, magazines and books, executive presentations and pitch decks, infographics and data storytelling, digital product and UX/UI design, and motion and social content.

Do you design presentations in PowerPoint and Keynote?

Yes, both. I design executive presentations, pitch decks and templates in PowerPoint and in Keynote.

Do you design reports and thought-leadership documents?

Yes. I design thought-leadership reports, magazines and books, including the charts and infographics inside them. Korn Ferry is one of my editorial clients.

Can you work within our existing brand guidelines?

Yes. Most corporate work happens inside an existing brand system, and I’ve worked within detailed global brand guidelines at Ogilvy, at Cushman & Wakefield as brand manager, and for freelance clients.

Which software do you use?

Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Premiere Pro, Figma, Keynote and PowerPoint.

Experience

Who have you worked with?

Clients include Korn Ferry, Oracle, BP, Mastercard, Iron Mountain, Salesforce, John Lewis, VERO, ExxonMobil, Johnson Matthey, Crest Nicholson and Cushman & Wakefield, either directly or through agencies such as Ogilvy, Golin and Group SJR.

Which industries have you designed for?

Professional services, technology, energy, financial services, property and retail. Examples are Korn Ferry, Oracle and Salesforce, BP and ExxonMobil, Mastercard, Santander and HSBC, Cushman & Wakefield and Crest Nicholson, and John Lewis.

Have you worked on regulated or financial brands?

Yes. I led the brand development for Tokenise, a regulated financial venture, and earlier worked on campaigns and brand communications for Mastercard, Santander and HSBC.

How much experience do you have?

More than ten years. I’ve been a designer at Ogilvy UK and Ferrier Pearce Creative Group, brand manager at Cushman & Wakefield, and a freelance designer since 2019. I’m also co‑founder and creative director of This is Bullish, a creative technology studio.

Questions by service

• Presentations & pitchesDo you design in PowerPoint, Keynote or both?
• Editorial & publicationDo you design thought-leadership reports and white papers?
• Brand identity & systemsDo you create brand guidelines as well as the logo?
• Infographics & dataCan you turn our data or research into an infographic?
• Freelance design supportDo you work with agencies as well as direct clients?
• Digital product & UX/UIDo you design apps as well as brands?
• Motion, video & socialDo you edit video as well as design graphics?