Digital transformation, delivering change

Simple, honest & thoughtful design.

I’m a multi-disciplined, award winning all round creative specialising in graphic design, art direction, photography and social, for online and printed media. Based in the East Midlands, I work collaboratively with clients of all sizes.

As you would expect from a creative with over 28 years experience, I’m fully skilled in creating engaging content that inspires and delights, with a proven track record for success.

I create engaging multi channel designs that inspire and delight for a multitude of well known brands and products.

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How can I help you?

If your brand, organisation or agency needs a distinctive identity, dynamic website or impactful communication design, I can help you deliver that.

I’d love to hear from you.

Branding & Logo Design

Working with you, I create unique brand identities that are tailored to your brief, are enduring, distinctive, memorable, adaptive and timeless. I ensure that I put real customers at the core of everything I design.

Design/Art Direction

I create clear and engaging multi purpose designs that inspire and delight for a multitude of well known brands and products, This includes catalogues, point of sale, advertising and signage.

Digital Media Channels

I’ve designed digital experiences with a proven track record for success. I have created and managed omni channel content for well known brands and products and transformed customer experiences across the world.

Social Media Content

Social media design helps you to think about your social media goals and create a strategy and cohesive visual language to establish your brand identity and increase your following.

Photography/Video

I am experienced and qualified in: corporate, editorial, studio, product, architecture, documentary and event photography and video for the design and advertising sectors.

User Experiences

Innovative experiences, ideas and designs are founded on teamwork. I work in collaboration with internal or external teams to deliver effective change for customers. Creating beautiful solutions to complex problems.

Portfolio

Please take a look at my varied portfolio covering a wide range of sectors, including: interactive communications, art direction, branding, marketing campaigns, illustration, studio and live photography/video, packaging, publishing and typography.

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My experiences

With over 28 years of experience in the creative industry I have been fortunate to work with some amazing people, brands and businesses on hundreds of incredible projects.

Throughout all projects I identify key deadlines for each stage, keeping your project on time and on budget. In my experience, clear communication is vital throughout the design process.

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Phil is a very professional designer with a great eye for detail. He provides candid feedback and always questions if there are better ways. His work is clear and impactful with a great eye for trends, and he has experience you can depend on. It was a joy collaborating with him!
Kingman Cheng
Kingman ChengeLearning Designer - Thomson Reuters
Phil is a very passionate designer who always has a keen eye for visually engaging graphics. His experience in the field is invaluable, providing constructive feedback and helping the studio members around him to thrive and grow. He has consistently kept up with new graphical trends and experimented further to push his skillset. It was an absolute pleasure to work with Phil and be inspired by his bold design work.
Vijesh Sonigra
Vijesh SonigraSenior Digital Designer
Phil is a great person to work with and his creativity has always exceeded our expectations. He is certainly someone who has always delivered superb results, and also at short notice. I have no hesitation in recommending Phil
Warwick Kay
Warwick KayCreative Director - Adventure Graphics
Having worked with Phil in a small team, I have no hesitation in recommending his professionalism and expertise in brand and design, as well as the fact that he is a pleasure to work with. He would be an asset to your business.
Stuart G. Hall
Stuart G. HallPublic Relations Manager - HUMAN Protocol Foundation
Phil is great to work with, collaborative and understands the client needs down to a tee. Highly creative, I found him superb to be able to bounce ideas off and fully utilised his creativity. I'd definitely work with Phil again either as a colleague or a client.
Ross MacDonald
Ross MacDonaldTalent Acquisition Partner - Transurban
During the 3yrs I worked alongside Phil he was always helpful & creative in coming up with solutions for our clients. His experience & knowledge of creative design shone through & he was a great support to me during my first Sales role.
Carly Wholton
Carly WholtonCommercial Sales Director, EMEA at Clari
Phil Simms is a highly talented and experienced visual designer and photographer. During my time with Phil I had learnt a lot, particularly in layout, typography, photography, video editing and accessibility. He is a great person to bounce ideas with and is always striving for high quality and doing the right thing. Phil is truly a genuine person with great experience.
Sandesh Samson Masih
Sandesh Samson MasihSenior User Experience Designer at FinancialForce
I’ve worked with Phil on many occasions and couldn't recommend him he enough. He believes in quality and thats something I admired when working with him. Professional, dependable and talented are just a few words I'd use to describe him!
Jordan Morris
Jordan MorrisE-learning developer and Animator
Phil worked as a studio manager where he was always honest, trustworthy conscientious, imaginative and has superb design led skills. Always keen, Phil always turned his hand to to any task and is an asset therefore I have no reservation in recommending him.
Jamie Bennett
Jamie BennettCEO - Atlas Knowledge/Mintra Group
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