From creative directors to copywriters, strategists to content creators, we have the perfect mentor waiting to meet you.
Keep scrolling to read more about our ever-growing list of mentors, who’ve volunteered their time to nurture the next wave of creative talent 👏
Use the headers below to jump to each creative discipline and check out our growing collective of mentors!
Illustration
Design
Strategy & Creative Direction
Animation & Motion
Photography & Videography Marketing & Comms
Illustration
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I am an editorial and commercial illustrator currently located in Münster, Germany.
I spent my childhood on a tiny Scottish island and studied illustration and printmaking at Münster School of Design (Germany). I spent one semester at Jan Matejko Academy in Cracow (Poland) and another at école supérieure d‘arts & médias de Caen/Cherbourg (France). My work is influenced by traditional printmaking techniques, painting and paper collage, which is often (but not always) combined with digital editing.
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A Filipino/Italian Illustrator, living and working in Berlin.
Ari's work centers timeless topics such as power, money, science, death, love and fried chicken. Exploring weighty topics through a lighthearted and popsurrealist lense.
Clients include Facebook, Red Bull, Audible, TIME, New York Magazine, Washington Post, NBC News, The Guardian and Los Angeles Times.
Ari is represented by Roar Illustration Agency.
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Carina Lindmeier is a freelance illustrator from Linz, Austria. She specializes in digital illustration with a figurative, contemporary style. Her work is characterized by a handmade digital aesthetic, with layers of textures, vivid patterns, bright colours, and subtle imperfections. She cares deeply about female empowerment, often depicting women in their daily lives. Her past clients include Adobe, Refinery29, Bombay Sapphire, Simon & Schuster, Harper Collins Publishers, and Red Bull Media House.
She is also a qualified graphic designer & teacher and has a passion for being outdoors, travel, music and networking.
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I’m the Managing Agent & Producer at the Jacky Winter Group UK, a creative representation agency and production company based in Melbourne, New York and London.
We represent 100 + artists and animators, working alongside them to deliver projects for the advertising, publishing and editorial industries. My work involves folio development, cost negotiations, conflict resolution, marketing and advising artists to help them achieve personal and professional goals.
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Connie Noble is an Illustrator and Animation Director based in the sunny south-coast of Brighton.
Connie has a degree in Illustration Animation from Kingston University, has previously studied Print & Ceramics in Paris, and worked as an Illustration Agent before becoming a full-time freelance Illustrator and Animator.
Connie’s playful approach to illustration combines scratchy hand-drawn textures and bold digital shapes to create contemporary illustrations that celebrate life!
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I am an Illustrator and Graphic Designer based in Norwich. With a strong enthusiasm for colour and texture, my work is a combination of both physical and digital paper cut. After completing my degree, I gained experience as a freelancer for the year and as a studio assistant. More recently, I have joined the lovely team at Fountain Partnership as their in-house designer working on a range of projects from animation all the way through to product and publishing design.
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My name is Headless Greg - or Greg McIndoe, whichever you prefer - and I’m an illustrator based in Glasgow.
My design work is all about abstraction and I love nothing more than playing with shapes! Whether it is a story book about mental health or an eye-covered still life, I always aim to make work which is both emotive and stylish.
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hawwa is a 23 year old south asian/muslim history graduate. currently, she works as a communications & marketing officer for an NGO, as well as a cultural learning & participation officer for a museum’s young collective. she is also a freelance artist & photographer, as well as founder of the creative platform 'hawwa, etc', and co-founder of 'the rice bowl collective', a platform exploring identity and education through workshops/zines. her work has been published in both digital & print publications, including a self-published art book ‘RICE’, and TMRW magazine. clients of her creative work include adobe, oxfam & MIF.
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I am is a UK based illustrator from China. Since graduating from Falmouth University in 2019, my primary focus has been on editorial and commercial illustration. My interests spread across the natural world to everything related to science and cinema and sci fi. I have worked with The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Lancet, etc.
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Katy is a Freelance Illustrator, creating playful and accessible work from her studio in the Kent countryside. Her style is expressive and rooted in hand-made textures and collage. After graduating in 2020 she has built up a steady client base, including Beer52, Oh Magazine, Society of Authors and Summerhill Trust. Katy also works in TV Art Departments and has created visuals, graphics and props for shows on Sky, BBC and ITV.
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Kohenoor Kamal is an Illustrator and Designer based in the North West, UK whose practice focuses on the exploration of the combination of both. Incorporating her unique perspective of the world, and drawing on her personal experiences as a Bangladeshi-British designer have enabled her to break traditional design rules in a way that is true to herself and has provided her with the unique style she has today.
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Lily is a freelance illustrator and art director based in Norwich.
With a degree in Illustration and 4 years combined experience in the design, animation and illustration industry. She also runs printed illustration publication 'Ephemeral'.
Clients include VICE, BBC, Sage, The Washington Post, Hallmark, NBC News and The Atlantic.
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Illustration makes me tick. Though it’s not the only thing that does. I’m a cardiac pacemaker patient. So, whilst I put my heart into drawing, it gets help from time to time. My illustration spans across editorial & advertising, working with the likes of New Scientist, The Washington Post, Vodafone, Harvard Business Review, The Lancet, and has been recognised by The Association of Illustrators, The Directory of Illustration and Communication Arts.
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Stephanie Jade Howe is a London based Illustrator, Animator and Creative Designer who graduated in 2020 from UCA Farnham with a first class degree in Illustration. Stephanie spends her time working with freelance clients, while also working as an in house creative designer for the London based marketing agency Cowshed Social.
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Steph is a 3D illustrator and animator from Bristol, now living and working in London. She started her career in arts marketing, working at venues such as Southbank Centre and the National Theatre. Since making the switch over to design and illustration, Steph worked as an in-house designer at a corporate animation studio, before starting out as a freelance 3D artist in 2020.
Design
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Hey! I’m Aaron, an over-thinking, type-obsessed designer from Belfast (currently based in Dubai). This is my 5th year in the design industry. During those 5 years, I’ve worked at studios in Belfast, London, and Dubai, along with some freelance gigs in between! Aside from designing, I love helping students/self-starts break down the doors to the design industry through mentoring or workshops.
And when I’m not geeking out over fonts or paper stocks, I love days doing absolutely nothing (they’re important too!)
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Having graduated from University of Plymouth in 2008 with a first-class honours degree in Graphic Communication with Typography, Bristolian born and bred Ali has worked with many of the great agencies in the southwest (Epoch, Hello, Taxi Studio to name just a few) having enjoyed working both as a permanent employee and a freelancer in her time on the design scene. Ali is currently working as a Design Director for global packaging agency Chase Design.
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Alissa Metsnik is an Estonian born designer based in London. She holds BA in Graphic and Media Design from London College of Communication and has previously gained experience at places like Johnson Banks, Creature, Adidas and Ragged Edge.
Her skillsets include branding, editorial design and design for advertising.
She has recently joined EdenMarsh recruitment agency as their Creative Talent Manager and now spends her time looking after the creative talent and supporting the design community.
Having received later in life ADHD diagnosis, she seeks to champion neurodiversity in the creative industry.
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I'm a brand designer with 3+ years experience working across leading global brands in the corporate, travel, charity and consumer goods industries. My designs are always led by strong strategic insights to create brands work to move organisations forward and communicate effectively with their customers.
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Hey I’m Chris, design director at How&How. A brand and digital studio working out of London and Lisbon.
A graduate of Duncan of Jordanstone (a few moons ago) I’ve had the joy of working at some amazing studios along my design journey, across London, Amsterdam and now lovely Lisbon.
I work across brand, digital and motion using head & heart to build brands for the better and bring them to life through motion. Excited to share what I can.
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Based in London, Connor is a designer at Jack Renwick Studio. Connor has been at Jack Renwick Studio since graduating from Falmouth University in 2019. In that time, alongside fellow Falmouth graduates, Connor has published a magazine focusing on rejection in design and has spoken at various design events including Birmingham Design Festival. Connor's approach to design is lead by strong ideas and strategic thinking that help the studio's diverse range of clients communicate in a more effective and interesting way.
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I am a senior designer based in London. I'm been working at DesignStudio for the past 4 years and have had the opportunity to work on a wealth of different branding and campaign projects that span e-sports leagues, lifestyle electronic ranges, self-driving car technology and sport organisations to name just a few! I enjoy design challenges that help create meaningful change through collaborative work, integrated communications and varied expression formats.
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I am an Illustrator and Graphic Designer based in Norwich. With a strong enthusiasm for colour and texture, my work is a combination of both physical and digital paper cut. After completing my degree, I gained experience as a freelancer for the year and as a studio assistant. More recently, I have joined the lovely team at Fountain Partnership as their in-house designer working on a range of projects from animation all the way through to product and publishing design.
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Hi, I’m Emma Lemon. Same as the fruit, no relation to Keith.
I'm a Brand Strategist + Designer. I work with female business owners to build brands that speak to their audience + visual identities to match. I’m best known for intuitively just ‘getting it’ when it comes to creating brand strategies and always making sure the visuals are bloody wonderful too.
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Grace is a senior designer with over 8 years’ experience currently working at JKR. With a mix or permanent and freelance roles with top agencies in London, Grace has experience working across a wide range of projects including branding, editorial design and packaging.
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I work as a UX designer and have a background in UI and digital design. I have worked both for digital agencies and for SAAS companies but alongside that I have always freelanced and had my own side projects. I'd be very happy to talk to those interested in UX or digital design and help with portfolios. Or for those already in the industry help talk over a work project or side project.
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Jamie is the founder and Creative Director of Studio Up North (SUN) – A brand strategy and design studio based in Lancashire. Jamie has over fifteen years of brand and design expertise after working with, and leading, agencies and in-house teams in Manchester, London and Sydney.
Jamie's passion is for beautiful craft led design that is born out of a robust strategy and organisational purpose, but more to that, Jamie wants to make SUN's clients and team smile, achieve personal and business results and transform the world for the better.
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Kat is a brand designer, currently working at Saffron Brand Consultants in London.
She is most passionate about design grounded in compelling strategic insights. Her drive comes from the belief that designers are ‘problem solvers’ and she views each brief as a new challenge.
Prior to Saffron, Kat was a designer at London-based branding agency MultiAdaptor. Some of her previous clients include Google for Startups, Deepmind, Oneflow and YouTube Space.
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I'm a graphic designer with a big passion for art direction and illustration. In my career I always tried to work in an environment that allowed me to put all these things together (of course that's not always been the case - but that's life!). Outside of my 'day job', I keep my creative spirit awake through collage work, silly illustrations and personal projects. My motto is 'Do good, feel good and have fun' - which is my way of finding that creative fulfilment which not always comes from your 9-to-5 job, but that can instead come from many other different avenues.
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Laura is the founder of Conscious Made, a Manchester-based design studio. Specialising in brand strategy, identity design and print, with focus on enriching wellbeing and sustainability. Working with clients in health and wellness, arts and culture, travel and tourism sectors. Laura is also the founder of Design Giving magazine, supporting independent designers and makers who create well-crafted products that are kinder to people and the planet.
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Max is co-founder of Ragged Edge, a branding agency for changemakers. Alongside fellow co-founder Matt Bland, Max has built an agency for people who care less about how things are, and more about how they could be. Whether at scale or scaling up, Ragged Edge works with businesses with the conviction to challenge the status quo, from Bulb and Laka to Mindful Chef and East London Liquor Co.
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Hi there, I’m Rebecca!
A London-based freelance graphic designer and letterer who designs kick-ass & meaningful work with a purpose. I work across brand design, digital, animation and strategy. I’ve been working as a designer for close to a decade, across design agencies and in-house teams.
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Sam has been a designer at DesignStudio ever since graduating from Falmouth University in 2019. With a branding focus, his practice is centred around experimenting with technology to engage audiences in new and unexpected ways. Working on a variety of brands with the likes of HelloFresh and Panasonic, he was shortlisted for D&AD Next designer in 2021.
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Hiya! I’m Sarah Twelves – yes, that’s like the number with an s on the end. I am a learner, creator, designer, finder, thinker, problem solver, collector, hoarder, explorer, traveller, pusher, celebrator, socialiser, CrossFitter, photo taker, food lover, dog walker, friend maker, family lover kind of person. More recently I am a 2020 (year of the pandemic!) graduate with a strong interest in typography and editorial design, branding and creating concepts from playful, in-depth and thoughtful experimentation and ideas generation. I am currently a graphic designer for a large advertising and marketing agency who work with lots of amazing global clients.
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Sinead is the founder of Sinead Taylor Design, an independent design studio that aids creative-led brands to achieve their goals through atypical branding. Sinead Taylor Design was born during the pandemic in the Irish countryside after finishing a graphic design degree. Sinead also has a great passion for helping fellow designers in their early stages of business through resources and raw conversations.
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Stephanie Jade Howe is a London based Illustrator, Animator and Creative Designer who graduated in 2020 from UCA Farnham with a first class degree in Illustration. Stephanie spends her time working with freelance clients, while also working as an in house creative designer for the London based marketing agency Cowshed Social.
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I'm a Senior Designer currently working at DesignStudio where I've been for the last 5 years since starting out as an intern. I've worked on a range of projects from building brand strategy and identities to creating campaigns and promotional films. At DS I help run our Junior Placement programme, international women's day event, Not Not Smiling and student event, Dumb Questions.
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With over ten years of experience in branding and design, Tom has worked with global organisations to young, passionate startups helping them build, manage and cultivate their brands.
In 2019, Tom founded his own design studio specialising in branding. Today, Redefine Studio helps businesses elevate their visual identity through connecting purpose, meaning and mission with the highest level of design and visual application.
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Ya’Qub has been working at Studio Up North (SUN) as a brand designer since graduating from the University of Bolton in 2019. It is at SUN where he has worked on branding projects with a wide range of sectors and clients, including The Caravan and Motorhome Club, Thomas Crapper & Co, Yan Tan Clothing and Soben.
Outside of design, Ya’Qub is enthusiastic about range of sports such as badminton, American football and basketball as well as waffling on and hosting on podcasts. Ya’Qub is also a previous runner up of Two+Two in 2019.
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I’m Yvie (pronounced like the Pokémon), the colour-loving brand designer, snack-obsessed strategist, and founder of Yoco Studio based in London, UK.
A proud owner of a brilliantly wiggly career, I've worked the trinity of the creative design path over 10+ years (agency, in-house, freelance), which has included lots of creative exploration, burnout and finding joy in the little details! I now run my own studio fully leaning into creating anti-bland brands for anti-bland women.
Besides being a champion of female-run businesses, I'm a big supporter of anti-hustle culture and a big fan of all things Japanese.
Strategy & Creative Direction
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I'm an experienced Brand Creative, with over 15 years under my belt working for a variety of brands and award winning studios. I have proven skills in strategic design, visual identity, art direction, packaging and branding. Originally from Barcelona and now living in Amsterdam, I work intuitively with both global and local clients. I help brands grow through original, meaningful and strategic brand design, finding the right opportunity within any given challenge, distilling it into a simple and powerful idea, making the connections that others have missed, and finding the best way to turn it into reality, in an engaging and memorable way. Providing clarity, inspiration and leading the team, through that journey and into a clearly expressed vision and a tangible solution, is the key value I bring to the mix.
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For over ten years, I’ve enabled brands to better engage their audiences through experience. I’ve shaped effective strategies and designs for leading brands across health, wellness, beauty and fitness. I believe my work as a CX (customer experience) strategist, service designer and UX/UI designer can truly impact the human experience.
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Hi, I’m Emma Lemon. Same as the fruit, no relation to Keith.
I'm a Brand Strategist + Designer. I work with female business owners to build brands that speak to their audience + visual identities to match. I’m best known for intuitively just ‘getting it’ when it comes to creating brand strategies and always making sure the visuals are bloody wonderful too.
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After studying an MA on Media Comms, I moved to London to pursue a career on everything Storytelling. Wanting to learn from different sides of the creative industry, I worked in film production, graphic design for publishing, art direction and creative direction in both, agency side and in-house. I currently work as Creative Lead for EMEA Markets at Google Waze.
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Max is co-founder of Ragged Edge, a branding agency for changemakers. Alongside fellow co-founder Matt Bland, Max has built an agency for people who care less about how things are, and more about how they could be. Whether at scale or scaling up, Ragged Edge works with businesses with the conviction to challenge the status quo, from Bulb and Laka to Mindful Chef and East London Liquor Co.
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A fiercely creative and passionate Strategist, Neil has been putting no one day is every the same to the test for 15 years in agency world at some of the UK's finest independent agencies. From inventing brands and products, to big ad campaigns, and even an immersive theatre production, he has worked with brands big and small. These include the likes of Stella Artois, SK-II, Absolut, Umbro, New Look, Green & Blacks, Laithwaites, Brewdog, HSBC, Moneysupermarket and Haagen Dazs.
Today he is Head of Strategy at LOVE. in Manchester but previously he has worked at Mother, AnalogFolk and The Future Laboratory in London. He is passionate about bringing young talent into the creative industries, and regularly mentors young people and is a regular lecturer at various universities across the North West.
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Hi there, I’m Rebecca!
A London-based freelance graphic designer and letterer who designs kick-ass & meaningful work with a purpose. I work across brand design, digital, animation and strategy. I’ve been working as a designer for close to a decade, across design agencies and in-house teams.
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I’m Yvie (pronounced like the Pokémon), the colour-loving brand designer, snack-obsessed strategist, and founder of Yoco Studio based in London, UK.
A proud owner of a brilliantly wiggly career, I've worked the trinity of the creative design path over 10+ years (agency, in-house, freelance), which has included lots of creative exploration, burnout and finding joy in the little details! I now run my own studio fully leaning into creating anti-bland brands for anti-bland women.
Besides being a champion of female-run businesses, I'm a big supporter of anti-hustle culture and a big fan of all things Japanese.
Animation & Motion
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I’m the Managing Agent & Producer at the Jacky Winter Group UK, a creative representation agency and production company based in Melbourne, New York and London.
We represent 100 + artists and animators, working alongside them to deliver projects for the advertising, publishing and editorial industries. My work involves folio development, cost negotiations, conflict resolution, marketing and advising artists to help them achieve personal and professional goals.
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Connie Noble is an Illustrator and Animation Director based in the sunny south-coast of Brighton.
Connie has a degree in Illustration Animation from Kingston University, has previously studied Print & Ceramics in Paris, and worked as an Illustration Agent before becoming a full-time freelance Illustrator and Animator.
Connie’s playful approach to illustration combines scratchy hand-drawn textures and bold digital shapes to create contemporary illustrations that celebrate life!
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I’m Fee a Freelance Motion Designer from Edinburgh.
I’ve spent the last 8 years creating work for brilliant international brands, creative agencies and start-ups alike, with a focus on 2D animation, you can usually find me somewhere in between the keyframes. From explainer videos to social media graphics, logo animations, and gifs, I’m your gal.
I’m a big believer in building communities and empowering women in the creative industries. I founded the Edinburgh chapter of Ladies Wine Design in 2016, (wo)manning the helm for just over 5 years, bringing together the creative community through events and workshops.
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Mat is non-award winning Graphic & Motion Designer currently based in the UK. (and yes his name really is spelt with one t not two) He specialises in 2D animation but is mainly known for experimenting with kinetic typography, infusing letterforms with character and creating animated GIFs, stickers and short films for clients globally.
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Maya Greaves is a Recruiter in London at the world’s leading visualisation studio, The Third Floor. Maya graduated with a degree in Animation from Norwich University College of the Arts in 2012 and went on to work at Apple, The Mill, Across The Pond and Electric Theatre Collective in Production, Talent and Recruitment roles.
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Stephanie Jade Howe is a London based Illustrator, Animator and Creative Designer who graduated in 2020 from UCA Farnham with a first class degree in Illustration. Stephanie spends her time working with freelance clients, while also working as an in house creative designer for the London based marketing agency Cowshed Social.
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Steph is a 3D illustrator and animator from Bristol, now living and working in London. She started her career in arts marketing, working at venues such as Southbank Centre and the National Theatre. Since making the switch over to design and illustration, Steph worked as an in-house designer at a corporate animation studio, before starting out as a freelance 3D artist in 2020.
Photography & Videography
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hawwa is a 23 year old south asian/muslim history graduate. currently, she works as a communications & marketing officer for an NGO, as well as a cultural learning & participation officer for a museum’s young collective. she is also a freelance artist & photographer, as well as founder of the creative platform 'hawwa, etc', and co-founder of 'the rice bowl collective', a platform exploring identity and education through workshops/zines. her work has been published in both digital & print publications, including a self-published art book ‘RICE’, and TMRW magazine. clients of her creative work include adobe, oxfam & MIF.
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Mathushaa Sagthidas is a London based freelance photographer, stylist, set designer and art director (studied at Camberwell College of Arts, UAL) with interest in fine art and contemporary fashion. Mathushaa’s work often examines her identity - Tamil Eelam ethnicity and British nationality, which is reflected through traditions, history and fashion photography.
Her photography work spans a range of brands including Amazon, Deezer and Bloomsbury; publications such as gal-dem, Campaign Live, It's Nice That and Graduate Fashion Week and exhibitions such as Tate Britain, PhotoFusion, BBH London, Lake Gallery, Camberwell Space Gallery including billboards across the UK.
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A photographer based in London, specialising in portraiture and classical music. My work is primarily focused around the importance of community and physical and mental wellbeing; I show this through documenting interdisciplinary arts, performance, sport, and the great outdoors; through portrait and reportage style images. I’ve self-published a book and a zine, worked with arts organisations, brands, athletes, design studios, and assisted on shoots with Olivia Colman, Gary Oldman, and Ferdinand Kingsley, as well as Oxbridge choirs.
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Michael is a promo creative and video editor based in London. He’s worked with a range of agencies and clients from Sky to BBC Studios crafting social campaigns, brand films, and television promos. With a simple mission. Tell compelling stories through video and editing.
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Sophia Carey is a freelance photographer and designer currently based in both London and Manchester, working predominantly in portraiture and fashion. She’s been creating content on YouTube for the past three years and has accumulated over 8k subscribers and 250k views in that time. Some of her recent clients include: VOXI by Vodafone, Creative Debuts, Panasonic, Made.com and Jaz Karis.
Marketing & Comms
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My name is Headless Greg - or Greg McIndoe, whichever you prefer - and I’m an illustrator based in Glasgow.
My design work is all about abstraction and I love nothing more than playing with shapes! Whether it is a story book about mental health or an eye-covered still life, I always aim to make work which is both emotive and stylish.
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hawwa is a 23 year old south asian/muslim history graduate. currently, she works as a communications & marketing officer for an NGO, as well as a cultural learning & participation officer for a museum’s young collective. she is also a freelance artist & photographer, as well as founder of the creative platform 'hawwa, etc', and co-founder of 'the rice bowl collective', a platform exploring identity and education through workshops/zines. her work has been published in both digital & print publications, including a self-published art book ‘RICE’, and TMRW magazine. clients of her creative work include adobe, oxfam & MIF.
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Lauren is a marketing lead for a public sector consultancy and creative producer at The Arena. She’s passionate about making an impact in the creative community and championing alternative routes into industry.
Away from the office, you might also find her in the recording studio, writing some dance music vocals.
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Director of Comms at a non profit fundraising organisation called Choose Love. Over 7 years of experience in industry. My journey started as an intern with no idea what I wanted to do or what I was good at, I didn’t go to uni and learned everything I know now through working hard and taking every opportunity I had to gain experience. I’m passionate about making the industry more accessible, and representative of the audience it’s trying to speak to. On a personal level, I’d love to share my learning and contacts with someone starting out so they can get a step ahead of where I was at the start.
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Hey there, I'm Yoko! Don't be fooled by my name; blame my dad's Beatlemania. I was born in London but currently reside in the lovely (yet ever so rainy) South Wales. I'm 23 with a background in Fashion Communication and a real passion for using marketing, community building, and creativity to make a difference! I've worked in various businesses since graduating from the Arts University Bournemouth in 2019. From small start-ups to big agencies, I've become accustomed to the challenging yet rewarding marketing world. I'm also super passionate about gender equality in the industry and breaking the bias for women in the creative/marketing industries.
