Elen Swetman @ StudioBrave
I help create compelling
brand stories.
Welcome to my portfolio
My expertise is brand, reporting and communications across print, digital media and environment. I’m driven to produce ambitious, engaging design on behalf of all my clients, from startups to household names. View CV
About
Work
Agencies
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Currently in my second Annual Report season as a freelance Senior Designer. Working across corporate reporting, brand and communications with clients including Air Astana (aviation); Cadent (energy); Polyus (mining), Reclaim Fund Limited (charity), SMS (energy) and Marelli (automotive).
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Freelance Senior Designer on corporate reporting.
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A digital brand identity system for Vodafone. Web and social media campaign rollouts in multiple languages. Previously worked at The Partners as a freelance Senior Designer on international brand rollouts.
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Freelance Senior Designer support across brand and communications. Working with clients including AQA and Universtiy of Reading (education), Peaboy (property) and Colas (transport infrastructure).
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Freelance Senior Designer working on Shell brand development and retail graphics and GSK communications.
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Freelance Senior Designer role creating brands and corporate communications for the recruitment and property sectors.
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Freelance Senior Designer role working on branding and communications for the property sector.
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Freelance Senior Designer role over a 3 year period, working on branding and communications for a wide range of clients, including Reckitt (consumer goods) and Coty (multinational beauty).
Clients
Referrals
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Elen joined our team as a freelance Senior Designer for the 2022 reporting season and we were delighted to have her back for the 2023 season. She was excellent: highly creative, versatile, and produced some fantastic work for Instinctif ranging from annual reports to branding and beyond. Elen is a pleasure to work with, she has the right attitude and work ethic and is always willing to go the extra mile to get the job done. I cannot recommend her highly enough.
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Elen worked with us on a number of key property focused projects: in particular a fully integrated marketing communications campaign for The Levers, a major redevelopment project in Elephant and Castle on behalf of Peabody, and ongoing marketing collateral for L&Q, including hoardings, press advertising and web/social media campaigns.
She is conscientious, has a personable can-do attitude, a great eye for detail and is adept at taking on projects from concept to artwork: a great asset to any busy studio.
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Elen is an extremely capable and thoughtful senior creative with many years experience of clients, industries and disciplines to draw upon. She is diligent and challenges the brief to ensure she can come up with good answers to what can be sometimes complicated and intangible briefs(!). She has high standards of design and aesthetics, so will always aim for a great idea and a well executed one to boot.
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We’ve worked with Elen on our Dam Sum and Central Kitchen restaurant ventures in Brussels for seven years; as our go-to branding designer. Starting with our Dam Sum Chinese Restaurant chain, she also branded our second key restaurant venture: Can Tho, focusing on Vietnamese cuisine. As we developed our offering into digital restaurant solutions, she created the Damn Damn Noodles and BimBamBoum digital brands. Finally, when we needed an umbrella brand to unify our organisation, we turned to Elen for her understanding of communicating to a corporate market. She thus was behind the Central Kitchen 360 branding drive.
As a design partner we’d describe her as inventive, collaborative, having a hands-on, can do attitude – with a flair for producing work which not only answer our briefs, but aid us in pushing innovative, new creative directions with confidence. To summarise, she has been an instrumental asset to our brand’s development and we recommend her highly, including for international projects.
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I have worked with Elen for a number of years on various branding projects and found her to be exceptionally creative and she goes more than the extra mile to deliver outstanding solutions that are quality driven, way above much of what I’ve ever seen before from other branding specialists.
Any client or agency that benefits from Elen’s exceptional talent will take their business in a direction that they might not have thought possible!
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I recommend working with Elen highly. Elen manages to balance a strong opinion on design (and strategy) alongside a softness and flexibility to work collaboratively in a highly dynamic team environment. My team really enjoys working with Elen (as do I). Elen brings creativity, care, commitment and a maverick spirit - all of which have been integral to the success of the genre-breaking graphic novel and guided novel [Re]Start: It's Never Too Late.