Helping small businesses look marvellousremarkable since 2005
I wrote down everything I think small business owners and creatives should know about branding. The result is this comprehensive guide that helps you grow meaningful relationships with your clients and your audience.
Creating remarkable brands requires vision, time, and the willingness to dig deep.
I’m dedicated to helping a select number of clients with all their branding and design needs, using a process that reliably gives results: beautiful, meaningful, and lasting brands.
My signature process takes you through four main stages:
Guiding you towards clarity and confidence, and starting the transformative process towards a remarkable brand
Original and meaningful logo and brand identity based on your authentic core values
Beautiful WordPress design and development for websites that impress your audience
Eye-catching print and web graphics provided at the pace that your business needs
European Social Fund programme brand identity redesign
Engineering company logo & brand identity redesign
Open source project logo design
Virtual assistant agency logo & brand identity design
Psychotherapist logo & brand identity
Construction consultancy logo & brand identity design
Education platform logo & brand identity
Conscious Business Coach & Author Brand Identity
I find selling easy, but it has nothing to do with my “ability to sell”. I’m not a good sales person. I’d hate doing a sales job for a living. But I happen to do a lot of other things that remove all the pressure from the sales conversation. I do the hard work in the marketing stage, so that I’d have less work to do in the sales stage. Read more...
I love adding black backgrounds, borders, or other large areas of black to my artwork! In the past I mostly used India ink because it’s affordable, easy to use, and easy to find in stores. But now I'm curious if I can find something better. I tested and compared 14 different mediums and found my new favorite! Read more...
I recently completed my recycled sketchbook that I've been using for messy mixed media experiments. I originally used this notebook as my intention journal, and then painted or collaged over the text and turned it into an anti-perfectionist mixed media “junk journal”. It's a great way to use a notebook that would otherwise end up in the trash! Read more...
The first time you get a challenging question will always feel uncomfortable, and you’ll probably say something you’ll regret later. But that interaction is a valuable lesson, and the trick is to get prepared for the next time someone asks you the same question—because there will definitely be a next time. Here are my polite, no-nonsense answers to questions about pricing, free work, discounts, extra revisions, scope creep, NDA-s and other things that make you sweat. Read more...
In this episode of Nela's Art Chat I’m sharing a Neocolor II water-soluble pastel drawing process of a stylized red-haired lady in my sketchbook, while talking about balancing the roles of artist and content creator on social media. There used to be a clear distinction between producing creative work, and publishing or promoting it. Now there is an expectation that we need to keep people engaged in between big releases, while creating said big releases at the same time. This is a significant burden on creatives. Read more...
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