Branding & visual identity
A whole look, not just a mark — palette, type, tone and the rules that keep it together across everything you put out.
Design studio · New Holland, Lincolnshire
Everything a business needs designing, from one desk in Lincolnshire.
Identity and logos, packaging, brochures, catalogues, signage, exhibition stands, websites, photography and motion — the whole spread, made here by one person who looks at every single thing before it goes anywhere.
Or just email me and describe it.
Free, and free of charge
Five free tools that’ll help me to help you.
Nothing uploads, nothing is stored, and there is no account. Built because I needed them myself — so they solve the real problem rather than a demo of it.
How big can you print it?
Open on its own page…or drop one here, or paste from the clipboard.
Type the dimensions instead
If you already know the pixel size — from your camera, or a file listing.
Will this photo make a good portrait?
Open on its own page…or drop one here, or paste from the clipboard.
Looking at it…
Watermark your work before you post it
Open on its own page…or drop it here, or paste from the clipboard.
Style
Worth being straight about what this buys you: a watermark deters casual right-click-and-repost, and it does not stop anyone determined — modern software removes them. Turned down far enough it also stops surviving a screenshot or a re-encode, which makes it decoration rather than protection.
What does your photo give away?
Open on its own page…or drop one here, or paste from the clipboard.
Turn a picture into a real cut file
Open on its own page…or drop one here, or paste from the clipboard.
What the studio does
Fifteen things, honestly grouped into four.
Because half of them are the same skill pointed at a different piece of paper. If what you want is not on the list, ask anyway — it usually is.
01
Identity
The mark, the letters, the colours, and the rules that stop them drifting six months later. A logo that only works on a white background is not finished.
Logo design
Readable lettering that actually spells the word, in a file that scales to a business card or the side of a van.
Typography & lettering
Custom lettering and typeface work for when an off-the-shelf font is nearly right and nearly is not good enough.
02
Print & publishing
Things that get printed and have to survive it. Set up properly for the printer, with bleed and a dieline, rather than a JPEG and an apology.
Brochures & leaflets
Booklets, flyers, leaflets — call them what you like, just do not call them pamphlets. Laid out to be read, not just to be full.
Printed catalogues
Long documents that stay navigable at page ninety. The hard part is structure, and the structure is most of the job.
Magazine & editorial
Editorial layout with a grid that holds up across a whole issue, and typography that keeps somebody reading.
Packaging
Boxes, pouches, labels and cans, set up with a real dieline so the printer does not have to ring you about it.
03
Large format & signage
Read at forty feet or read at four. Those are two completely different design problems and they get treated as such.
Wayfinding & sign design
Getting people where they need to be, using clear typographic structure rather than more arrows.
Exhibition & roller banners
Roller banners, booths and full stands, designed to make an impression in a visually noisy room.
Posters & outdoor banners
Large-format work that carries a message across a car park, and still holds together up close.
04
Screen, picture & motion
The work that has to convince somebody in about two seconds, and the pictures and film that do the convincing.
Website & digital design
Interactive, responsive sites and email templates. This one you are looking at is the sample.
Product imagery for marketplaces
Amazon, Etsy and the rest want more than photographs — infographics, lifestyle shots and brand reinforcement, all of it.
Information design
Infographics and diagrams. A creative way to make complicated data land, rather than a chart nobody reads.
Photography
Product and portrait work, shot and retouched. A phone photo is fine right up until it is the thing selling the product.
Video & motion graphics
Short film and motion for listings and social, with the music and voiceover made here rather than licensed from a stock library.
Everything I can make
The studio is a real workshop of tools.
Every one of them is something you can order, and these are actual outputs — not stock examples.
What they are not is client work. This side of the business is new, and I would rather show you what the tools actually do than borrow somebody else's logo and let you assume I drew it.
Yes, AI is part of how these are made — but not the way you are probably picturing. These are my own tools, built and tuned here over months and running on my own hardware, not a chatbot with a clever prompt. That is why the list runs to vector conversion, print-size upscaling, real alpha cutouts, animation, music and 3D, and why I can take an odd request and actually make it.
Photoreal
Photographic portraits
Yourself, friends, family or pets, lit and shot like a studio photograph — without the studio.
Painting
Victorian oil portraits
Ornate, museum-looking, gold braid and all. The line that sells the most.
Illustration
Storybook illustration
Hand-drawn character work for books, cards and packaging.
Branding
Logos & wordmarks
Readable lettering that actually spells the word — harder than it sounds, and most tools cannot.
Cutout
Transparent cutouts
Pixel-accurate cutouts with real alpha, ready to drop onto mugs, tees or anything else.
Video
Motion pieces
Short cinematic clips for listings and social, made from a still or from nothing at all.
Animation
Stills brought to life
A painting that breathes — subtle parallax and light, from a single image.
3D
3D models
A photo turned into a real textured 3D model, for printing, games or AR. Sent on request — the files are far too big to sit on a web page.
Audio
Original music
Bespoke instrumental beds for your own videos and shop listings. Yours, not a stock library's.
Voice
Narration
Clean spoken narration for product videos and reels.
The bits nobody asks for until they need them
Nobody wakes up wanting vector conversion. You want a logo that still looks like a logo on the side of a van, a poster that is sharp at A0 instead of soft, and a square painting that somehow has to be a wide banner by Thursday. These are the three tools that make those possible.
Vector
SVG conversion
Any artwork turned into a true vector: scales to a business card or a van, no pixels.
Upscale
Print-size upscaling
Four-times upscaling, so a small original prints sharp at poster size instead of soft.
Extend
Reframed for any size
One artwork extended to fit any ratio, so a square piece becomes a wide banner without cropping the middle out of it. That is a real 3360x840 shop banner, made this way.
The shop
Yourself, friends, family or pets, painted like they own the place.
Digital downloads you keep forever, and physical prints made and posted for you. This is the half that has been running longest, and it is not going anywhere.
Victorian portraits
Yourself, friends, family or pets, dressed as Victorian aristocracy with far too much gold braid. Sent as files you can print yourself.
Digital download
Framed & canvas prints
The same portrait, made up as a real poster, framed print or canvas and posted to your door.
Made and sent for you
Ready-made art prints
Finished designs you download in seconds and print at whatever size you like.
Instant download
Character packs
Ten fully-realised portraits per pack for games, tabletop or your own table, with a commercial licence. The medieval set is listed; the other three are finished and waiting on a listing.
Instant download
Themed & seasonal portraits
Space suits, uniforms, wizard robes, a Victorian ghost story. Same face, entirely different life.
Ask and it gets made
Badly Drawn Pets
Deliberately, joyfully terrible. Exactly as much work as the serious ones, which is the joke.
Ask and it gets madeArt prints, ready to go
No photo needed, we have hundreds of prints designed and ready to go.
Finished pieces you download and print yourself, at any size you like, as many times as you like. Hundreds of designs to choose from.
How a job runs
You see it before you pay for it being finished.
Whichever half of the business you came for.
Design A commissioned job
- Tell me what it is for. Not what you want it to look like — what it has to do, who reads it, and where it ends up. That is the brief, and it is most of the work.
- A fixed number, before anything starts. Not an hourly rate that quietly drifts. If a job turns out bigger than it looked you hear about it before I do it, not after.
- Drafts, and honest ones. Two or three real directions, not one good option flanked by two deliberately bad ones.
- Files that actually work. Vector where it should be vector, CMYK where the printer wants it, every size you will need. You own them, and there is nothing to renew.
Shop A portrait
- Send me a photo. Any decent photo of yourself, friends, family or pets — good light helps, a phone is completely fine. It is worked on here, on my own machine, and never uploaded to somebody else's AI service. What happens to your photo.
- Pick a style. Victorian oil, astronaut, badly drawn, or describe something of your own.
- See it first. I send a proof. Changes are free until you actually like it — that is the whole job.
- Printed and posted. Files by email, or a real print made and sent to your door.
Tell me what you need making
Hello! How may I be of assistance?
There are no prices on this page, because a logo and a forty-page catalogue are not remotely the same job and pretending they are helps nobody. Say what it is and you get a real number before anything starts.
Goes straight to my inbox. Nothing is stored on this website and there is no mailing list to end up on. What happens to it.
Elsewhere
- EtsyPortraits, prints and packs. Start here.
- GumroadDigital downloads and bundles.
- itch.ioGame assets and sprite packs.
- [email protected]Or just describe it in an email.
The other half of it
With Nate is the design side. NAS Digital is the technical one — websites built and hosted, software, and the computer on your kitchen table that has stopped working. Same person, same desk, different kind of work.
Have a look at NAS Digital →