Steven Lester / Freelance Graphic Design.

A Worthing based creative with 25+ years experience successfully delivering projects for UK businesses of all sizes. Specialising in brand identity, digital products, website design & presentation templates.

I can help with:

  • A strong visual identity is an essential for any brand - differentiating you from competitors, reinforcing your business values, establishing trust & increasing customer loyalty.

    I can help:

    • Start-ups create all visual aspects of your new brand

    • Revitalise your existing brand with an exciting new identity

    • Redesign aspects of your existing identity that need improvement

  • Guidelines ensure that any creative work stays on brand. Designers, marketeers, content creators and developers all need a reliable & current source of truth to maintain brand consistency.

    I can help:

    • Choose the appropriate guidelines solution for your business. 

    • Deliver actionable guides in the most suitable format for your team, whether that be PDF, Intranet or a public facing website. 

  • I can help with:

    • Creative mobile first website design

    • Interaction design & prototyping

    • User interface design (UI) 

    • User testing to identify usability issues and improve user experience (UX)

    • Design systems & component libraries 

    • Motion graphics & animation

  • Templates ensure design quality and brand consistency for all your business documents. This is particularly important when multiple people are collaborating on the same project.

    I can help with: 

    • Compelling visuals that bring your presentation to life

    • Building library of deck slides your whole organisation can access 

    • Creative credentials, presentation or sales decks in Google slides or Powerpoint

    • Word or Google documents ie. letters & business docs

    • Custom styled Excel or Google sheets spreadsheet templates 

    • Form/survey templates

  • Polished social media content maximises engagement as well as increasing brand recognition. A custom set of design templates means your business will benefit from a professional, consistent design style across all your channels therefore saving you time and money.

    I can help with: 

    • Creating a suite of designs with a visual consistency to cater for all types of posts

    • Creating custom reusable animated GIF/Video assets

    • Ad/post templates for Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram and TikTok

    • Cover images and headers for business pages

    • Setting up a shared Canva workspace with all your custom templates ready for use

  • In a digital world, print design provides a multi-sensory experience that a design on screen can’t match. Physical designs that can be handled are proven to create a deeper connection with your audience.

    I can help with: 

    • Marketing collateral, including brochures and annual reports

    • Business cards, stationery, posters, flyers and advertising 

    • Product packaging and visual merchandising

    • Advising on production methods, formats, stocks, finishes, and sourcing print.

  • I can help with: 

    • Signage and wayfinding

    • Custom interior graphics / wall art

    • Vehicle graphics

    • Shop fascias and signs

    • Exhibition stands

    • Window graphics, office glazing / manifestation designs

    • Large digital display graphics / ads.

  • Businesses with an app or web based service benefit from UI design that is both intuitive for their users, and cohesive with other touch-points of the brand.

    I can help with:

    • Designing a full set of UI elements for any digital platform or app

    • Creating high fidelity mock-ups that will look like the finished product

    • Finding the balance between something fresh that stands out, and remaining familiar to your users

    • Innovative ways to display data & information

    • Onboarding sequences

    • Applying broad UX principles to the interface and interaction design process

    • User testing to identify usability issues and improve user experience

    • Designing and prototyping UI animation and micro-interactions

  • Interactive prototypes of digital products are a lightweight way to test and refine ideas, validate assumptions and identify potential problems or areas for improvement, without costly development time.

    I can help with:

    • Creating interactive design prototypes for your product that feel like the final product, to demonstrate value to stakeholders.

    • Gathering real world customer feedback through user testing 

    • Increasing confidence and reducing risk before moving to a build phase

Websites

Identity

Printed

Interfaces & Apps

Templates

Guidelines

Motion

About

*I’m not this young anymore (but it’s hard to resist Helvetica Subway signage)

Beacons Ultra 2024 | Photo: Evan Davies

Experience

I have 25+ years of experience across a broad spectrum of graphic design, having started out with a traditional graphics education at Kingston University.

Over the years I’ve been lucky enough to be part of the digital revolution in design, and remain at the forefront of a forever changing media landscape. Wearing many design caps I’ve worked at agencies, before starting my own, I’ve headed up small design teams, worked freelance and more recently been working in-house.

Collaborating with other designers, marketing departments, UX teams, developers and business founders, I’ve delivered successful creative projects both large and small, for start-ups through to enterprise customers.

Approach

Working together, you’ll find me:

Creative - Ideas led, with a focus on outcomes and what’s required to achieve them

Experienced - Whatever the project, it’s likely I’ve done something similar before

Pragmatic - Balancing creativity and practicality

Dedicated - To both the projects I work on and my craft as a whole

Diligent - Reliable and thorough. A safe pair of hands.

Minimalist - Believing that when it comes to design, less is almost always better

Amicable - An easy going, empathetic collaborator


Away from the screen, you’ll find me:

Trail running - I’m a big believer in the all round health benefits of movement outdoors

Watching live comedy - In awe of what it takes to do standup

Listening to a podcast - Science / Environment / Ibiza classics

Trusted by:

Enterprise

Sky
BBC
EE
Virgin Media
O2
Lloyds

SMEs

Brighton Marathon
15gifts
Roffey Park
Travel Nation
L&S Printing
Academy+

Gayle Mansfield Designs
Listen & Learn Research
Spectrum Photographic
Special Arts Services
Blast Theory
Kanoti

Good to know

  • Book an intro call to discuss the scope of your project and see if we are a good fit

    Or:

    Get an estimate. Send me a brief outline of your project & I’ll get back to you with any questions and an estimate of costs


  • My hourly rate is £60


    Hourly Credit Packs - Buy upfront hours and use them on demand. Suits businesses that allocate budgets in advance or have ad-hoc design needs.

    Subscription - Pay for an agreed number of hours/days each month on a flexible rolling contract. Suits businesses that resource plan and have similar design requirements month on month

    Per Project - Pay on a project basis to an agreed scope of work. 50% upfront / 50% on completion. Suits businesses with budgets allocated to set projects and initiatives.

Let’s talk

Use the contact form below to:

  • Book an intro call - discuss the scope of your project and see if we are a good fit

  • Get an estimate - add a brief outline of your project & I’ll get back to you with any questions & costs

  • Send a general enquiry