What people are saying.
It was a wonderful experience working with Helen. Her extensive design and technical knowledge made the job go smoothly, and she was able to deliver everything we asked for (and more) on time and to specifications. Helen responded to requests quickly, had a great eye for detail and had no problem juggling multiple projects for our biggest multi-national client. We hope to get the chance to work with Helen again very soon.
— Ralph Bartholomew, Director, St Albans Web Design
Through a recommendation, we approached Helen to help us redesign and update our company logo and brand identity. We already had a strong brand identity but needed Helen's expertise and creativity to bring it up to date and create diverse branding for our subsectors. We really enjoyed the whole process, as from our first conversation to the end Helen demonstrated attentiveness and really sought to understand who we are and was keen to learn as much as possible. She maintained frequent contact, and we never felt the need to chase her up for updates. Helen took the time to ask in-depth questions to truly grasp our company's identity and ethos, even taking a look around our workshop to get a real feel for it and talking with the whole team!
We needed our main identity revamped, as well as future-proof branding for our subsectors, while maintaining a cohesive larger brand identity. Our company’s unique structure also meant that these ideas needed to be communicated effectively to several key stakeholders. Helen delivered on all fronts and provided us with a range of options that helped us figure out exactly what we needed. Her comprehensive documentation showcased how the new branding would look in practical terms, which made us feel more comfortable with such a significant change.
Helen attentively listened to our feedback and made adjustments accordingly when we made our final choice. We couldn't be happier with the results. The branding documentation she provided was comprehensive, leaving us fully satisfied whenever we need to refer to anything related to our branding.
— Emmanuelle Bastide-Wilson, Managing Director, Dovetailors Limited
“The best decision we made was to “extend our marketing department” to include Helen as a design consultant, as we were struggling to produce all our social assets on a monthly basis – this has proved a highly cost-effective, time saving no-brainer versus employing a new team member!
Her work has included a packaging label design for a new marketing campaign, which is still running over a year later.
Our brief was to create an eye-catching, unique spice label design incorporating our logo, plus our supplier logos and strapline, which could be adapted, and differentiated for each monthly spice blend and airline partner.
Helen created a beautiful, distinctive design using spice motifs in a colour complementary to the partner logo and also evocative of the spice blend and destination represented. She has gone on to create a range of spice labels, each unique, which are now instantly recognised as Faremine, including an exquisite Christmas wreath version for our corporate gift to our customers.
We also tasked Helen with the redesign of our complete marketing asset suite in different shapes, sizes and for different use, incorporating a fixed set of logo requirements making the task extremely tricky.
Helen created refreshed, updated designs with a much needed polished, professional look, incorporating all the elements required – we are delighted with our new, unique, eye-catching and memorable suite of assets. Helen also provides an essential service updating all our assets for each monthly promotion – with a new set of images and partner logos, delivering a fresh, new visuals every time.
Helen understands our unusual, niche business and our target audiences, is extremely professional and reliable, highly creative - offering different perspectives and suggestions, and exceeds our expectations every time. She is a highly valued member of our team!”
— Anthea Malik, Marketing Director, Faremine
“Happydays has worked with Helen as our sole designer for our rapidly growing charity. The only word that could sum up that experience is superb!!! Helen hits the mark and exceeds expectations with every design project, she has embedded her knowledge of the charity to such an extent that briefing is simple and easy. We have no hesitation in recommending Helen, she offers an excellent creative service.”
— Happy Days UK
“Working with Helen is a dream. She is able to take a very basic brief to develop concepts and design strategy that far exceeds expectations. Helen works quickly and flexibly and our whole team is impressed with the quality of her work - we have been thrilled with the results and she is fast becoming our go-to designer. Her designs are SO good and are often approved at first proof which is testament to Helen's skills.”
— Yasmin Davoodi, Head of Commercial, ramarketing
“We came to Helen with quite a complicated idea that needed to carefully balance creative flair with an understanding of the different audiences we were trying to engage (internally and externally). Thankfully, Helen understood what we were trying to achieve instantly and came back with a clever concept which brought our whole Civic University Agreement to life. Creative with the designs, speedy with the output, and really easy to work with throughout the whole project, I would absolutely recommend Helen to anyone looking for a creative and professional freelance designer.”
— Martin Webb, External Engagement Manager, Sheffield Hallam University
“Helen is a real asset to my business and I have used her for work with campaigns for numerous clients. Professional, creative, speedy and friendly, Helen is the full package for all my design needs and I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend her!”
— Elaine Keep, Director, Your Marketing Managed
“Helen has just finishing designing a promotional piece of literature for Mint HR and we could not be happier with the result. Helen added so many ideas and creative solutions which made the end product so much more than we ever imagined. Would not hesitate to use Helen again in the future and would recommend her to anyone looking for professional graphic design work for their company.”
— Tracy Carpenter, Director, Mint HR
“Working with Helen has been really easy, she understood my idea from the beginning. She submitted some concepts and we took it from there, working together with colours and combinations, she just brought my original idea to life. I now use Helen for all my design services for the restaurant.”
— Davide Garbarino, Owner, Pa-Pi Pasta & Pinsa