Kelly Garner

Kelly has been a successful teacher of A Level and GCSE film for 15 years, managing her own film department, working with Arts Council England and delivering CPD to staff.

Outside of teaching she has created her own studio Traybake Studio which designs graphics and produces short videos. Her client base includes educational organisations, musicians, museums, artists, orchestras and local independents. She has managed projects with large budgets to build film sets, install editing suites, produce short music videos and most recently a digital regeneration of St Neots Museum.

She is particularly passionate about using technology and art to allow access and inclusivity to all people in public spaces and education.

An avid badminton player, Kelly is happiest when with her family, and enjoys cycling and creating figures in her outside studio.

Emma Sheppard

Emma Sheppard is a graphic designer with over 10 years experience. She’s spent most of her professional career working in design studios and agencies, but decided to give up the day job to go freelance after having her first child, for better work life balance.

As a powerhouse print designer, Emma is very experienced in magazine and editorial design, and has worked on everything from luxury property and lifestyle titles, to fashion and beauty magazines. She is lucky enough to have worked on a wide variety of projects through her agency work, with big name brands as well as exciting startups and small businesses. She has a passion for typography and logo design, and a great eye for detail, making sure everything is just right.

Emma recently started Big Bear Creative – a small agency of talented freelancers which specialises in design and branding for new and small businesses.

Paul McIver

Paul McIver is a freelance graphic designer, website designer and illustrator with over 20 years experience and has worked extensively in the packaging and brand marketing sector, working with clients such as SONY, Nintendo and the BBC.

Paul started Opaque Design in 2012, a small agency which specialises in design, web development and brand identity and more recently motion graphics. He also has a passion for t-shirts and has launched Limebox tees in the last 12 months.

Emma Hodgson

Emma Hodgson is a freelance graphic designer based in St Neots who concentrates on branding and illustration as well as graphics for social media platforms. She works with small start up businesses on logos, stationery and advertising materials as well as covering businesses needing a branding overhaul. A professional, friendly and affordable service is guaranteed.

Davey Podmore

After leaving University, Davey Podmore worked as a graphic designer for IKEA before moving on to numerous Design Week top 100 design agencies. His work has appeared in numerous exhibitions alongside some of his heroes. Some of which is currently housed in the British Museum’s permanent collection. Based in Huntingdon, after working in the industry for many years, Davey now has a better understanding of how clients and designers can come together to create meaningful design. Davey is one of the founding partners of AVIDD Design an agency with a simple philosophy of collaboration to create client and designer relationships that will result in better design.

David Brudnell

Based in Peterborough, David Brudnell has spent the last 16 years in both agency and in-house environments. He has been fortunate to work on many successful projects and campaigns where close relationships are crucial for effective results. David has a keen interest in ethical and environmental issues and believes great, effective design can be environmentally and ethically responsible. We should always strive to do our best. At AVIDD this includes being as paperless as possible and using recycled materials – our business cards, for instance, are made of recycled t-shirts. David is one of the founding partners of AVIDD Design an agency with a simple philosophy of collaboration to create client and designer relationships that will result in better design.

Kevin Neal

For the past 18 years, Kevin Neal has worked for design agencies in Stamford and have long been a champion of embracing modern ways of working and is a firm believer in using the latest technology to improve efficiency and produce higher quality work. Whether this is through creating high impact photography or developing great website experiences, he always endeavours to delight the client and end user alike. Having started his career as a traditional photographer, Kevin has constantly evolved and taken on new challenges including photo retouching, motion graphics and web development. Kevin is one of the founding partners of AVIDD Design an agency with a simple philosophy of collaboration to create client and designer relationships that will result in better design.

Jo Pickering

Jo Pickering is a qualified fine artist, with a background in design and management. Having created digital installations as an artist, she turned her skillset towards graphic design and supports clients with logos, branding, print and digital design services.

In 2017 Jo started up Kabo Creative, a graphic and website design agency, with her wife and business partner Penni. Since launch, she has helped established brands in the financial and recruitment industries to redesign their logos and has helped startups in the fitness sector to create new brands.

Jo designs stunning brochures, logos, social media images, infographics and more; on time and on budget. Her clients include the UK and international customers, from SME’s to larger corporations. She also writes on the Kabo Creative blog on practical design advice for businesses and has been featured on The Marketing Meetup as a guest author.

Ivy Fung

Ivy Fung is an environmental graphic, signage and wayfinding designer, artist and illustrator. She has an artistic mind with an adventurous spirit, Ivy’s creations are embodiments of history, heritage and technology. Currently, she is a freelance graphic designer.

She has about 14 years of experience in environmental branding and signage and wayfinding in Hong Kong before relocating to St Neots. She worked in a Hong Kong developer and worldwide architectural and interior design firms before. Her projects covered different disciplines like culture, shopping mall, workplace, hospitality and entertainment.

She is innovative and contributed to creative and original design solutions. She works from conceptual design and develops it until completion. She has the good interpersonal skill within the project team and has a good sense of space to design and locate environmental branding graphics.

Ivy is also an artist and likes to experiment with a range of mediums and formats of expression, from public art to video and illustrations. She is also featured in Hong Kong Eye, one of the world’s most important publications showcasing Hong Kong artists.

Solrise Walker

I got a BA(Hons) in Fine Art back in the day. It taught me a lot about professionalism and exposed me to a wide range of artistic inputs, techniques and equipment. Now I am freelance. I love putting paint, pens and pencils on paper. I love using real art materials and touching art equipment. Getting messy. I mostly use pencil and gouache for illustration work, but spill out into other media as diverse as acrylic on canvas to computer lead svg creations as the need arises.

I have worked for such entities as the Wintringham Housing Association and Scripture Union; as well as taking personal commissions.

Check out my website (link in the corner) to see my portfolio and feel free to contact me at solrisewalker@gmail.com

Deborah White

Deborah is an experienced and fully qualified graphic designer. Since graduating with a First Class (Hons) degree in Graphic Design from Cambridge School of Art, she has enjoyed a varied career in design, including spells working as a freelance designer and in creative agencies, publishing and in-house design teams. She has created designs for both UK-based and international clients, primarily within the education and scientific research sectors.

Sule Savas

Sule has been freelancing since 2019, partnering with businesses worldwide and recently moved to St Neots. Her focus is on assisting brands in effectively reaching their desired audience through her expertise in branding, art direction, and digital design services.

Seb Camm

Seb Camm is a creative graphic designer, photographer and illustrator with around fourteen years experience, working in both creative studios and as a freelancer, with clients large and small. He tends to think in terms of the bigger picture, and so his thought process lends itself to branding, identity and campaigns. Whilst his aesthetically eye loves to create beautiful, balanced and clear graphic design across a wide variety of print and digital media. As a curious extrovert, he loves asking questions and working together to create awesome visual solutions that resonate with their audience and meet the brief, on time and on budget.

Stephanie Drake

Stephanie Drake runs Bébé Bicyclette, an independent studio that designs and illustrates children’s products. She also provides freelance services to anyone looking to bring their ideas or publications to life through tailored design solutions and illustrative support.

Stephanie studied fine art at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art before working the best part of a decade as a professional illustrator, textile designer, and children’s book designer. Through this range of experience, she focussed her efforts and created something she is truly proud of – Bébé Bicyclette.

The catalyst for this has been the most arduous creation to date; her children. Eddy and Felix are the two little people who have, one way or another, shown Stephanie where her priorities lie. Now her work harmoniously coexists alongside raising her family and gives her a platform to create her best work to date.

Carli Hall

Carli is a freelance graphic designer who is in love with the process of craft as well as ideas generation and believes in the use of good design for positive social change. Carli has a background in Logistics Management within the Telecommunications sector and is highly creative bringing together professionalism, organisational skills, project management and excellent communication skills. Carli recently won a commission for Wells & Co’s new Brewpoint brewery corporate identity and packaging design, from concept and art direction through to execution.

Anna Piecha

Anna Piecha is a graphic designer based in St Neots who graduated from the Fine Art Academy in Poland in 2011. And has developed her skills as an artist and graphic designer. With over ten years of experience she has open mind for the new experiences and positive flair for the future adventures. Between 2009 and 2015 she had several individual and group exhibitions where she presented her graphics and paintings.

Anna is a dreamer, her passion is art: intaglio prints, painting and drawing. She is a design lover: digital art, illustration, visual communication. She is also expanding her knowledge in UX Design. She is looking for an opportunity to work with a creative people.

Angie Moyes

Angie Moyes believes design makes a difference, not just as visual communication, but to the bottom line. She loves her job because she gets to meet people with passion and purpose – and that’s infectious. With over 20 years’ experience and projects covering a diverse range of sectors, including education, entrepreneurs and start-ups to blue chip corporate – consumer to academia, science and the arts, Angie has been lucky to meet a lot of brilliant people in fantastic companies.

Angie Moyes has worked with clients such as Abcam, Blighter, Baker Hughes, BP, The Biochemical Society, Cyrus Audio, The Gurdon Institute, Grant Instruments, International SOS, One Paper Buildings (now Drystone), Portland Press, Socia and Widget. With a network of associates – such as writers, editors, developers – projects can be large or small.

She loves all the areas of design and has been lucky enough to work in: logo design, information design for technical documents and websites as information architecture – or UX/UI as it’s also known, journal and book design, web site design, campaign design (for products, ads or internal comms).

She relishes that by using her design skills she is able to make a difference to a clients product or service, by making it better understood and more attractive to their clients and customers. To make her clients ‘look good’ in the face of competition.

Andrew Foster

Andrew Foster is qualified in graphic design and illustration and has studied at both Bath and Bedford College. He has loved drawing since he was little and continues to love it now that he’s not so little.

He’s currently working as a designer and illustrator at agency Bonfire Creative Intelligence and all the work featured on his website are all personal projects created in his own time.

He is proud to be one of the founding members of the Circus of Illustration – a group of professional and amateur illustrators in the Bedfordshire area. As a group they are dedicated to promoting illustration in all its forms. They hold exhibitions of illustration and are involved in various smaller events such as Drink & Draw get-togethers. They have also published their own themed ‘zines’.

Alex Whiteley

Alex Whiteley is a creative ideas-led graphic designer based in Huntingdon and believes in high-quality, considered design, it’s a conceptual artistic approach shaped into a strong set of design principles. Alex specialises in a research driven use of typography, brand identity, print and web design, social media imagery, digital marketing and videography. Her skills lie in having over ten years graphic design experience in many different areas of industry, and recently achieved a masters degree in graphic design and typography at Cambridge School of Art. Alex focuses on well-researched and developed concepts that best fits the individual needs of each brief. She offers an honest and heart-felt approach, a problem solving strategy and exceptional, creative design that does not cost the earth.

Chantal Palmer

Over the last 25 years, Chantal has worked professionally in small and large companies as a Creative Lead, Brand/Design and Marketing Manager – including at one of the country’s largest conservation charities. Her role here saw her effecting change across multiple fields by widening its digital offer and mixing brand development with its application across websites, email, social media, moving images and print.

Chantal sprinkles her innovative thinking and boundless energy across creative projects, with an audience-led, customer-first approach at the heart of everything she does. Chantal has also supported multiple local community initiatives either as a trustee or as a voluntary project lead, helping to get good work off the ground. You’ll always be able to spot her; she’ll be the one waving her arms about, getting really excited about an idea, and thinking out loud! Either that, or she’s out and about exploring the green spaces of St Neots with her curious poodle pup – Syndey Vicious.