Design

Creative Studio for Conscious Brands

Computer monitor, tablet, and smartphone displaying a website with outdoor learning content.

Creating a memorable brand-experience through cohesive and compelling designs to connect and engage your customers.

Aligned brand identities, perfected packaging, website design, on brand touchpoints and compelling marketing for conscious, consumer-focussed, feel-good brands worth talking about.

Elm Leaf Studio is a creative studio that exists to help small, ethically-minded businesses grow and thrive. Helping ethically-minded small business owners grow their business through aligned aesthetics is my passion. As a brand and website designer, blending creativity, technical skills and experience in design, illustration, code and marketing design I work with conscious business owners to increase their online presence (and hopefully profits).

Quality

Each client should be treated fairly and receive work at a high standard, following good design and coding practices.

Integrity

It’s important to me to act in integrity to offer advice and solutions that best serve you. I also will act within my own morals and principles.

Creative

Creative choices that are strategic, considered, practical and commercial – not just cool sounding marketing spiel.

Design Portfolio

eMpower Maldon

Logo Design & Brand Identity

Buttercup Learning

Brand Identity & Website Design

Hetty Brand Identity

CONCEPT, Brand Identity & Touchpoints

Ethicle

CONCEPT, Brand, Packaging, Marketing, Homepage design

La Terre

CONCEPT, Brand, Packaging, Marketing

Asai Vegan Yoghurt

CONCEPT, Brand, Packaging, Advert

Stella Litton

Brand & Website Design

Ideas Hub & Art Place

Graphic Design

Sixteen years industry experience as a designer

Since graduating in 2010 I've gained industry experience and have honed my skills in areas such as logo and web design, illustration, marketing, email marketing, social media and coding.

Working across print, digital and web design, for a wide variety of companies and clients of different sizes, from in house roles to agencies and freelancing. As an experienced designer and illustrator I’ve tackled many different design projects including packaging, brochures, leaflets, adverts, email designs and more… yes even lorry and van wraps in the past!

I enjoy working with creative businesses and lifestyle brands in industries such as hair, beauty, wellbeing, fitness, fashion, vegan food and eco products.

I’d love to hear more about how I can help you with your business and the project that you have in mind.

Looking for some illustrative design work for your project?

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"Working with Kirsty from Elm Leaf Studios was a fantastic experience. I hired her to do a brand refresh and create a new website. She quickly understood what I wanted to achieve and helped me consolidate lots of different elements into a more cohesive brand look… Kirsty understood that I wanted to ensure the site was designed sustainably with a lower carbon footprint and worked hard to ensure that the new site achieved this.She is a talented designer and web developer and I can’t recommend her highly enough!"

Rachel

Buttercup Learning

"I highly recommend Elm Leaf Studios. Kirsty McGill is both competent and conscientious. Her work ethic is wonderful. She lets you know what she’s willing and able to achieve in a reasonable time frame and what would better be accomplished by another professional. I’ve enjoyed and continue to enjoy working with her."

Elisa

Enlivening Consciousness

"Working with Kirsty has been a pleasure, we just needed a few ad hoc changes done and it was completed quickly and to budget. Kirsty is organised, creative and we will continue to use her services as we go along. Would highly recommend!"

Jackie

Quiet Blue

"OMG! They are amazing! I’m genuinely blown away. They are more than I could have imagine and look so classy. I’m absolutely over the moon thank you so so much. I feel so proud looking at them."

Lynette

Candles Ethically

"Kirsty was very professional and did a thorough assessment to understand the requirements to produce a lovely set of templates for my branding. I would highly recommend and will be messaging her again in the future!"

Caitlin

Tilly Shilling Art

"Elm Leaf Studio was prompt and on time. Delivered a better product than I expected. I didn’t realize how much I’d left out of my brand development. I also have the confidence based on her feedback to make several small changes in my messaging. I would have paid more for that service and would still have been happy with the results."

Marissa

Crochet Rebellion