About Us
Creative Brand Studio is a creative consultancy founded by Kaye Thorne and Louise Sinclair. We wanted to create a source of inspiration, interesting content and beautiful imagery, where anyone with an interest in exploring their creative side can come for inspiration, ideas and opportunities for collaboration. We have wide experience of working with new business start-ups and larger corporate organisations. Like artists we paint pictures with words, we use evocative images to create a mood or emotion, to help your employees and customers feel engaged, to create loyalty, and to want to find out more.
BACKGROUND
In our careers, we have embraced innovation, creativity, employer branding, employee engagement, designing, illustration, calligraphy, website design and artistic creation in both corporate and small businesses. Often being slightly ahead of the curve. working globally and travelling widely. Much of our work has been based on an intuitive understanding of the needs of our clients, consumers and followers.
DIGITAL PUBLISHING
Since 2006, we have collaborated in a number of digital publishing creations. In this increasingly noisy digital world, we offer an oasis of calm with carefully selected and curated lifestyle and travel brands. Believing that less is more, we offer our members dedicated space to showcase their business and our readers high-quality content with relevant and timely information.
We were one of the first to create an online luxury lifestyle magazine, Hot Brands Cool Places. Image-rich, Hot Brands Cool Places was a well-established invitation-only lifestyle website and magazine, featuring leading brands in the home, travel, wedding and lifestyle marketplace.
We have re-brand as the following websites:
ABOUT US
Kaye Thorne is a well-respected business writer, employer branding, employee engagement expert and talent coach. She has particular expertise in creativity and innovation and supporting people and organizations that think differently. Much of her experience has been in corporate organisations, acting as a sounding board to senior managers and Directors.
EXPERIENCE
As well as offering individual coaching support to many talented individuals, I have helped organizations develop their talent strategies, identify talent criteria, and create organization development plans. This has included new product development, sourcing market intelligence, developing web content, and creating internal and external communications. I have also created numerous induction/personal development guides for many in-company development programmes.
MY PHILOSOPHY
Wherever you are in your career ladder it is never too late to take control, identify what you could do differently and to recognise your own talents. Acknowledging what you could achieve is the first step towards realising it.
As well as our wide experience of corporate life, we like most people, aspire to achieve a lifestyle, which reflects more of a work-life balance. As such we are artists, photographers, writers, interior designers, and collectors. We make a conscious effort to combine work and pleasure and encourage our clients to do the same.
We are genuinely interested in people and their aspirations, hopes and dreams. We help people work towards achieving their lifetime’s ambition, whether it is to further their career, travel, take a career break, retire early, or set up a new business.
CONSULTANCY STYLE
Whether you work in a corporate organisation, or as a sole trader we can help you identify your personal vision and ambition; recognise what you do really well, and what you need to develop. We can help you find ways of increasing your motivation, creating a presence, influencing and building effective business relationships
Our style is very reassuring, practical and down to earth, helping people develop self-belief and we can offer 1-1 coaching, telephone/zoom coaching and email support.
We love writing, we write for all mediums from magazine features, reviews, articles, books, internal communications, learning and development materials, brochures, presentations, to film scripts, television treatments and web design.
With years of experience in creating learning and development materials, our knowledge and understanding of how people learn will ensure that all materials produced represent best practice.
When not working you will find me walking on the beach taking endless images of waves, sunsets, or wandering around vintage, or antique shops looking for unusual or unique collectables that I can research to find out more about the maker, or their history.
Louise Sinclair
EXPERIENCE:
I originally trained in media with a B.A. Hons and have worked for over 15 years in the digital realm as a web / graphic designer. I have been training both professionally and self taught in modern calligraphy, I am constantly developing and learning and love to add to my existing skill set. I am fluent in Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign and have recently learnt how to create my own fonts using Glyphs.
MY PHILOSOPHY
I believe that there is beauty and design in everything; the way the morning light can highlight the tones and colours of a flower or fruits sitting in a bowl. I love to absorb historical design and architecture, and many of my designs and work reflect this. I have a passion for typography and design and my work as a calligrapher has led me to create my own script font. It’s a joy to spend my days being creative and I adore the prospect of a new project or working on art to share.
DESIGN PROCESS:
Each project begins with a questionnaire or conversation to get started. I will then send you a detailed proposal for you to add your feedback and approval. As soon as the project is agreed I will give you a proposed timescale so that you are aware of the processes involved. I work organically and love to sketch and create designs that are original and bespoke to you. Depending on your project I will send sketches of my initial designs before they are inked and either digitised to be ready for print or sent to you as a final piece. I am always happy to respond to your requirements and love to collaborate to incorporate any idea you may have.
When not in my studio, you will find me at the seaside, foraging for plants for natural dyes for silk ribbons or spending time with my lovely daughters and family. I also love to search for beautiful antiques and unique pieces for styling.
Miss Modern Calligraphy & Fine Art Design Studio
Both websites offer beautiful stationery to cherish, weddings, branding, events, special occasions and bespoke calligraphy services.
www.missmoderncalligraphy.co.uk & www.fineartdesignstudio.co.uk
Experience & Skills:
- Photoshop
- InDesign
- Illustrator
- Lightroom
- Graphic Design
- Canva
- Calligraphy
- Watercolour Artist
- Photography
- Microsoft Word
- PowerPoint
- Excel
- Social Media Marketing
- SEO
- WordPress & Woocommerce
- Shopify
- Apple and PC platforms
- Email marketing systems
- Typing Speed 60 / 70 wpm
COLLABORATIONS
As these businesses have become more established we are now able to offer our services to other organisations.
JOIN US
We love working with like-minded people, we support networks of clients through our Directories in many of our websites, if you would like to be included please contact us. We also have selected affiliate relationships.