Greens the Signmakers – click here to view their website
Quiet Storm – click here to view their website
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Jigsaw is a company I freelanced for from October 2025 – February 2026, helping to create e-learning courses. They also asked me to design a rebrand, which you can see at the top. My boss wanted to include a chameleon in the design to reflect their adaptability. After testing out some different possibilities, she opted for a sophisticated but fun serif type combined with a chameleon eye-inspired colon: a device they can use as a signature mark throughout their brand.
I did a small bit of work on their World Food Programme ‘Complex Emergency Response’ project, taking their pre-existing visual route to create hotspot graphics. Primarily, my time with Jigsaw was spent on a project for DHL, designing visuals for a course about supporting neurodiversity in the workplace. I was given a written storyboard and a DHL Illustrator pack to put elements together, edit them in both Illustrator and Photoshop, and sometimes create new elements (e.g. the orchid, radio and sensory icons in the left image). This experience gave me great practice in empathetic design, time management whilst working from home, and taking on feedback from a designer, a writer and the client.
Jigsaw is a company I freelanced for from October 2025 – February 2026, helping to create e-learning courses. They also asked me to design a rebrand, which you can see at the top. My boss wanted to include a chameleon in the design to reflect their adaptability. After testing out some different possibilities, she opted for a sophisticated but fun serif type combined with a chameleon eye-inspired colon: a device they can use as a signature mark throughout their brand.
I did a small bit of work on their World Food Programme ‘Complex Emergency Response’ project, taking their pre-existing visual route to create hotspot graphics. Primarily, my time with Jigsaw was spent on a project for DHL, designing visuals for a course about supporting neurodiversity in the workplace. I was given a written storyboard and a DHL Illustrator pack to put elements together, edit them in both Illustrator and Photoshop, and sometimes create new elements (e.g. the orchid, radio and sensory icons in the left image). This experience gave me great practice in empathetic design, time management whilst working from home, and taking on feedback from a designer, a writer and the client.
For three days a week from October 2025 – February 2026, I worked as a technical designer at Greens the Signmakers on a national rebrand project. Another design agency supplied us with a brand toolkit, which we then had to combine with existing building surveys to create replacement signage. There are two final printed and installed sign examples pictured above. My drawings were pre-production, so I got to use my mathematical brain and my sharp attention to detail. I also got a lot of practice with layout and typography within some difficult-shaped buildings. As my first office job, it taught me a lot about organisational procedures, working to urgent deadlines, and fast-paced learning (e.g. of a different computer programme, signage specifications and ongoing client requests). I also learnt that I really enjoy working in a team.
In January 2025, I did a week of work experience at Quiet Storm advertising agency in London. Above is the slideshow I made and presented at the end of the week. The task was to research 2024 design trends, predict 2025 trends and create two designs based on your findings. I created billboard ideas for Yakult and a National Trust ‘Space to feel’ immersive room concept for ambient media in big cities, inspired by Quiet Storm’s previous work. This opportunity gave me great insight into a professional environment and confirmed my aspiration to work in the creative industry.