Hello, I'm Colleen
I’m a Freelance Graphic Designer, Digital Illustrator and WordPress Stylist.
I’m currently based in Germany, although I’m Canadian.
I offer a wide range of digital services to a diverse set of clients around the world.
My passion is helping my clients put their best face forward,
so they can make a positive change for their business, their community and the world.
When a prospective client contacts me,
they're usually looking for one or more of the following:
- Action a project that’s beneficial to their business
- Revitalize their brand or offerings
- Redo of their first (quick and cheap) visual identity or website
- Take some work off their frustrated and overworked hands
- Advice on a visual aspect of their company
- Help with ongoing design needs
I believe it’s important to have a work/life balance, and not try to do everything yourself. When you have a reliable designer working for you, you’ll save time, have your brand well-represented, and be able to focus on other priorities.
Good design is a priority
While high-quality design will improve your business,
low-quality design will hurt your brand.
Mike Britton
Founder & CEO / Evolution to WellbeingAs a leading brand in the outdoor fitness arena, it is imperative for us to work with the right designers. Colleen has been a great asset to us. She is creative, insightful, committed, reliable and passionate. She is also self managed, works to deadlines and sees projects through to completion. I can't recommend her highly enough.
Anfernee Chansamooth
Marketing Lead / Hub AustraliaAs Australia's largest coworking community, brand plays an important part in how we differentiate ourselves from other spaces, as well as how we attract and retain clients. Hub Australia is a small company with 10 staff, 3 locations, 1,000 clients across Australia, and limited marketing spend - so not having anyone on our team who could do seriously great design work meant that poorly designed marketing collateral was really hurting our brand and our business. Thankfully Colleen understood our challenges, and could work with our crazy timelines, budget and brand style guide to quickly create professional and eye-catching posters, website landing pages, and other visual elements. Colleen helped us save a lot of time, money and headaches trying to do something we're not experts at. Thank you Colleen, you are a superstar!
Sabrina Lolacher
Merchandise Manager / The Vancouver AquariumWe had been searching for a graphic designer for a long time and are absolutely thrilled that we found Colleen. Colleen has been fantastic to work with, very professional, responsive, and has an ability to interpret ideas into amazing designs for a wide range of products and needs. We really appreciate Colleen’s flexibility and efficiency. Thank you!
Divya Hemnani
Brain Trainer & Founder / Intrinsic Brilliance InstituteColleen has been my go to designer for the past 18 months. She attends to each project big or small with a commitment to excellence in design and dedication to customer service. I've been delighted working with her on both fronts and can definitely say that my brand has been enhanced due to her efforts.
Melinda Getz
OFFICE MANAGER / Valley Orthocare Ltd.One word: Talented! Extremely organized; always available. Possesses an appreciable creative intuition. Very happy with our re-branding outcome and would not hesitate to recommend Colleen.
Cliff Cunningham
Principal Consultant / Performance Consulting AustraliaI engaged Colleen to create a new logo based on a re-branding process I was undertaking for my consulting business. Colleen was able to grasp what I was trying to convey to my key audience and create a logo that I am still today proud of. After having such good experience working with Colleen on the logo I asked her to design my new Wordpress site and work with me to create the content for go live. Her ability to adapt to my needs and tight timelines was an important part of making my re-branding project a success.
Hana Walker
Research Manager / Rape & Domestic Violence Services AustraliaI have been working with Colleen since early 2015. She has designed a number of poster presentations for R&DVSA that captured the results of complex research projects. Colleen has been incredibly creative and effective in translating our data into eye-catching graphics. She works fast and always helps us meet our deadlines.
Why Hire Me?
After completing two Vancouver-based Design Programs and working at a variety of creative studios, I decided to start fresh, go traveling and start my own freelance creative business as a digital nomad. It was the best decision I ever made.
Despite only freelancing full-time since 2014, I’ve…
- Quintupled my client base,
- Enabled over a dozen new businesses to get started,
- Helped countless others refresh and improve their branding;
- Learned from and collaborated with people from every nation and profession,
as well as been so broke that I couldn’t buy tea.
The struggles always pay off in the end, and I know as much about starting from scratch as I do about building on an existing foundation.
What will you get when you work with me?
- You’ll have access to my extensive design, production and online knowledge…in terms that make sense to you.
- I’ll be with you every step of the way, encouraging you to ask the questions and make the decisions that will serve you and your business best.
- By the time we’re done, you’ll have a well organized brand, successful projects that get results, and you’ll know how to take action in the future.
- I’ll also teach you some fancy web and designer jargon along the way.