Brio Bloom
Freelance brand & website designer
I take one project at a time: a fixed scope, a written schedule, and a finished thing you can run yourself. Most clients are makers, therapists, consultancies and two-person studios outgrowing a marketplace profile.
Ways to work together
Pick the lane closest to your problem. If your job sits between two of them, say so in the brief and I will write a scope that fits rather than sell you both.
For a practice that has a name but no consistent face. We settle the wordmark, palette, type and the handful of layouts you actually use.
A small, fast site you can edit without calling me. Usually four to seven pages, written and designed together so the words fit the layout.
For a date already in the diary: an opening, a new collection, a season of workshops. Enough material to announce it properly.
Engagements & rates
Fixed prices, confirmed in writing after a short call. Everything below includes two rounds of revisions, source files and licences in your name.
A week of naming and availability work, for when the name itself is what is holding you up.
Three weeks: wordmark, palette, type, and the three printed pieces you hand to people.
You like your mark but nothing else matches it. Colour, type and layout brought back into line.
One long page with an enquiry form — the right size for a new practice or a solo maker.
Four to seven pages, designed and built, with a recorded walkthrough for editing it later.
Booked single days after launch: new sections, seasonal artwork, small fixes and tidying.
A third holds the dates, the balance is due at handover. Print, hosting and font licences are paid directly by you, so nothing is marked up.
The studio
Brio Bloom is a studio of one, which is the whole point: you talk to the person drawing the work. I keep a single project in the diary, so a two-week schedule means two weeks.
Selected work
Plainly described: what the client needed, what I made, and what changed afterwards. Longer case notes are sent with the quote if you want them.
A stationery seller moving from a market stall into a corner unit needed signage, labels and a mark that reads at ten paces.
A two-therapist practice was losing enquiries inside a directory listing. We wrote and built a five-page site around one clear first step.
A kiln studio had a firm date for its autumn collection and three weeks to announce it across a page, a poster and an email.
How a project runs
An identity sprint runs across three weeks and a small site across six. The stages are the same either way; only the length of each one changes.
Day one — first reply
You send the form. Within two working days you get either a slot for a 30-minute call, or an honest note that I am not the right fit and a suggestion of who might be.
Week one — written scope
A short document lists what I will make, what I need from you and when, the fixed price, and the two review dates. Nothing begins until you approve it.
Middle weeks — making
The first review shows direction: one route developed properly rather than three thin options. The second shows the refined work. Revisions are gathered in one pass each time.
Final week — handover
Source and export files, fonts licensed to you, and a recorded walkthrough of anything you will edit yourself. A care day can be booked later without re-explaining the project.
Questions
The six things that come up on nearly every first call. If yours is not here, put it in the brief and I will answer it directly.
Because you need to know the number before you commit, and I would rather be paid for the decision than for the hours it took to reach it. If the scope genuinely changes mid-project, we agree a new figure in writing before I carry on.
Two rounds per engagement, each gathered as one set of notes. That is enough for real refinement and not enough to redesign the project sideways. Further rounds are billed as care days at the rate above.
Often, if the date is at least four weeks out for an identity sprint or eight for a small site. Because only one project sits in the diary at a time, I will tell you at the enquiry stage rather than accept the work and hope.
We do, together. A website engagement includes a copy pass, where I rewrite what you send so it fits the layout. If the project needs original long-form writing, I bring in a writer and you pay them directly.
Yes, that is the point of it. You get editable source files, fonts licensed in your name, exports in the formats printers ask for, and a recorded walkthrough of every part you will touch. Nothing stays locked to my accounts.
Sometimes. A care day is the smallest useful piece of work, and it often fixes the one thing actually costing you enquiries. Say what your budget is in the brief: I will either propose something honest at that size or point you somewhere better.
Send a brief
Tell me what you are making, when it needs to exist, and roughly what you have to spend. A reply lands within two working days.
Useful detail: whether a name already exists, whether you have photography, and who has the final say on approvals.