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09/03/2026

and all women deserve better. Maternal mental health matters. We deserve more consideration than dogs. The charging for parks needs to be rethought - why are babies being charged more than dogs?!

25/03/2025

Win a photoshoot and a Design Clinic session with me!

🎈 COMPETITION TIME! 🎈

To celebrate my 10 year business birthday, I’m holding my biggest giveaway yet, worth over £800!

So, what’s up for grabs?

💥 1 hour Design Advice Clinic session with graphic designer Eleanor Bowie Design to make sure your brand is photoshoot ready

💥 1 hour brand photoshoot with me 🐧

💥 Goodie bag, with some exciting treats to give you and your business a boost

To enter, click here: https://forms.gle/hvkVmQkR7Zxk1zQC6

[Competition closes 16/5/25, with the winner being announced at a special event and online on 22/5/25]

10/02/2025

Relax panic over, it’s here, phew!

Yes that’s right, I know you were on the edge of your seat waiting for me to release my new Brand Review Guide.

You couldn’t wait to hear about how it could help you gently reflect on your brand in 2025.

You were bursting to know that it’s set up to help you understand your brand and decipher what changes are needed.

You’re excited to finally have a detailed workbook to help you review your existing brand, using:

✔️ Practical questions and checklists

✔️ Clear actions to take

✔️ Reflections to gain insight

✔️ Useful tips throughout

Ok maybe I’m exaggerating a teeny weeny bit.

But I bet you’re curious now.

Give your brand the gift of clarity to gently start the year with confidence.

👉🏻 Download your FREE Brand Review Guide
https://buff.ly/4h0cFyk
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✏️ I’m Ellie a deep-thinking brand identity designer, driven to define before design. Come over to my website and say hello https://www.eleanorbowie.co.uk
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20/11/2024

Finding the upside in flu? 🤒

Sitting in bed watching the incredible wintry morning light moving across the sky. The sun glinting on the remaining autumn leaves and sparkling on the frost. Magic.

Until I started coughing my guts up again 😆

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I’m Ellie a poorly brand identity designer, fighting off a fever and cough, ready to define and design you a brand. Next week though eh?

14/11/2024

Buzzing with excitement. It’s the book launch of The Roar of Her Story later. So it seems a good time to tell the story of the book cover.

wanted to evolve her brand to demonstrate her growth, confidence and clearer sense of who she is and her value.

My process tapped into Hilary's rebellious spirit and defined how that needed to feel bolder than the current branding.

Hilary means business. This was all about action and change. It felt radical.

I knew the manifesto needed to be printed. With real ink, on paper. For my own sense of integrity I had to find a way to do this without extending the scope we’d agreed.

Creative collaboration creates sparks… that can turn into exciting infernos.

I took this idea to print maker Claire Baillie , who helped me to bring the manifestos to life, there was plywood, laser cutting, numerous tests, colour mixing and an 18th century press.

This isn’t digital. There was imperfections and trial and error. And so much passion.

After much hard work (but no sweat because we’re ladies ;-) we produced 3 awesome rally cries – to engage the audience and create ripples of change.

But what about the book?
As you might have noticed, my excitement levels were a bit off the scale by now... so I couldn’t leave the book cover out. I knew it wasn’t part of my brief, but it felt foolish to leave it out. So we also printed the cover.

So far this doesn’t seem so radical.
Except that i didn’t tell Hilary any of this.

We agreed the strategic brief, mood boards and creative direction, but I didn't share what I was upto in the print studio.

The creative drive was a little like being possessed. I felt this had to come into being and there wasn’t time to pause. It was ridiculously wild, bold, and not the way I would ever normally work!

Thankfully, Hilary was blown away with the concepts and the passion in the projects – it was even a little emotional! The belief in her project and mission gave her such confidence along with the way it then seamlessly translated across all her entire brand.



Ready to let an overly passionate creative loose on your brand? DM me now!

13/11/2024

I’m not generally a fan of giveaway promo items – my waste conscious soul gives me a hard time about them. So it was quite delightful to have the opportunity to print something functional and useful to showcase book and my work.

A bookmark to go in a book – what better pairing? And personally I always need one, because I have so many books I’m dipping in and out of at once!

When it’s no longer useful it can be recycled. It’s already made of recycled unicorn stock (best paper name 🦄) and printed with vegan inks thanks to .works who also printed these luscious eco friendly stickers, all packed minimally, yet substantially and without a hint of pesky plastic about.

Happy days.


Ps if you want one of these striking bookmarks, you best check out Hilary's next book readings in and around Bath

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I’m Ellie and I work with passionate deep-thinking founders to define the spirit of their brand and craft a brand identity that communicates their pizazz. Interested? DM to organise a chat.

12/11/2024

We need women’s voices more than ever now.

Listen to and start getting ready to Roar 🦁


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I’m Ellie and I work with passionate deep-thinking founders to define the spirit of their brand and craft a brand identity that communicates their pizazz. Interested? DM to organise a chat.

11/11/2024

On Friday I had the privilege of hearing introduce and read from her book at the in Bath.

Superbly facilitated by , she suggested a couple of insightful questions to ask the person beside you.

What followed is something you can’t quite describe, an energy, buzz of ideas, sparks of connection and an opening of doors that sometimes you don’t even realise are shut.

It sounds so simple, yet it’s not. When the world around you reverberates messages to make you smaller, quieter, measures you aesthetically, undermines and belittles you, it’s hard to find a voice. Do you share your opinion? Because it’s highly likely that at best it’ll be ignored or derided. And most certainly its value will be measured against values that aren’t your own.

It’s something I’ve felt passionate about, shied away from, felt full of rage and ultimately, found I had to forge my own path and business.

So here is just one of my many opinions. My voice, your voice, our voices matter.

Watch out. I’m practicing my roar and it’s getting louder.

Tell me, what are you going to roar?



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I’m Ellie and I work with passionate deep-thinking founders to define the spirit of their brand and craft a brand identity that communicates their pizazz. Interested? DM to organise a chat.

07/11/2024

Brand identities inspired by curiosity, crafted by Ellie.

Visually craft the way you present your business pizazz.

Let's define the spirit of your business and use it to craft a brand identity that communicates your pizazz.

06/11/2024

It’s here. The Roar of Her Story book.

It was a great honour to design the cover for this book, The Roar of Her Story by Hilary Salzman.

It’s always exciting and daunting to see a final design in print. This one was amplified even more – because I loved the project so much, couldn’t wait to actually read the book and, because with the help of the amazing Claire Elizabeth Baillie-Cloke, had already hand printed the design for the cover. Let’s call it a double-print, so double the excitement!

Funny story. I wasn’t actually commissioned to design it.

I got so carried away with Hilary’s brand identity that it evolved into a whole other printing project.

But that’s a story for another day…