Welcome to Bearded Creative Studio, the home of badass branding and kickass illustration that pack a serious punch.

With over a decade of professional experience, Bearded Creative Studio helps brands find their edge and own it. No fluff. No filler. Just bold, character led design with a real human touch, built to stand out and stick around.

Based in Exeter, Devon, we work with craft breweries, coffee roasters and independent food brands to build distinctive identities that feel honest, tactile and made to last, from logo and illustration through to full brand systems and packaging.

What really gets us fired up? Straight talking brands with backbone, the kind that care about craft, detail and doing things properly.

Let's Work Together
Let's Work Together

SERVICES

Brand Strategy

Finding your brand voice, who you are, how you fit into the world and how to effectively communicate your brand clearly. This is where your story starts, and it means every step that follows has meaning and sets you up for success.

  • A clearly defined brand direction and mission, to help you move forward with swagger.

  • Defined Tone of Voice to help you communicate with the world as your brand.

  • Brand Values, Personality and how your brand is positioned in your world.

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Visual Identity Creation

Taking your brand to the next level and creating something visual, not just a logo, but a full visual language that you can apply to anything from your website, packaging, to merch. This helps you deliver consistent visual outputs no matter what you create.

  • A responsive logoset that will work across multiple sizes, formats and applications.

  • Consistent defined fonts and colour palettes that reflect your brand’s personality.

  • Brand elements, from iconsets to patterns that can be easily applied to communications.

  • A clear and easy-to-understand brand guideline document to help you use your brand

OUTPUTS:

Brand Assets

Once we have defined your brand, let’s build it out with various outputs and keep it all on brand and consistent.

  • Printed materials from business stationery to posters and flyers.

  • Packaging for your products that reflects your brand and attracts new customers.

  • Signage and promotional materials to cater for any event.

  • Brand merch anything from t-shirts, stickers, patches to a cheeky coaster

OUTPUTS:

Illustration Creation

Bespoke illustration which can be created for multiple uses anything from brand merch, promotional posters, album artwork, packaging runs, beer cans to book covers.

OUTPUTS:

  • Fully layered vector-based illustration.

  • Anything from 1 to 8 colour illustrations depending on the print requirements.

  • All artwork and rights transfer to you once the final payment is made.

HOW THE SAUSAGE IS MADE

Let’s take a peek at ‘how the sausage is made’ and walk through my full ‘B.A.N.G.E.R’™ process for new projects — from the very first enquiry, right through to the creative development, refinements, and final delivery.

Phase 1

Breakdown

The ‘Breakdown’ call to kickoff the project, learning everything we can about you, your brand and your story, what makes you tick and get a vibe check.

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A half an hour ‘Breakdown’ Call and Project Questionnaire.

Phase 2

Aesthetics

Full discovery phase where we run through the ‘Sausage Talk’ brand workshop, where we define your strategic goals including brand values, direction, personality, positioning to tone of voice.

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A two hour ‘Sausage Talk’ Session.

Phase 3

Nuance

The visual stage where we start to define what your brand will look like using moodboards and applying your brand strategy to clear visuals.

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Between 2 to 4 potential concepts proposed.

Phase 4

Greenlight

Signing off on the chosen direction, we then begin to refine and build out the full visual brand direction.

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A fully signed-off direction.

Phase 5

Establishing

This phase is where we prepare for launch and create all the supporting brand assets including brand guidelines, business stationary and signage.

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A Brand Guideline Document or Toolkit.

Phase 6

Rollout

All brand assets exported and uploaded to a bespoke brand portal ready for launch, with on going support for any print needs and further graphic needs.

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A Bespoke Brand Portal, All brand assets and further support.

Let's Work Together
Let's Work Together

TESTIMONIALS

  • Speciality coffee brand logo design

    "We’ve worked with Simon on our branding since 2022, and we wouldn’t be the same without him! Starting with a box design, we’ve since expanded to packaging and merch artwork. Our branding stands out, and customers often compliment it. Simon is a pleasure to work with, always listening to our ideas, and we value his genuine care and expertise."

    Rhian Nolan Co-Founder of Sanctuary Coffee

  • brand design pilates

    “I approached Simon from Bearded Creative Studio Ltd to help rebrand my Pilates business. I had been using the same logo, artwork, etc., for 10 years, and I felt it was time for an upgrade. On our first meeting, Simon was warm, welcoming, and engaging. He listened to my ideas and responded”

    Grace Gilby Founder of Red Bay Pilates

  • retro brand logo design

    “Simon of Bearded Creative Studio was one of the easiest creatives I’ve worked with in my career; we worked together on multiple season collections, creating adaptive artwork that worked across multiple applications. We worked in real time making changes on the fly on Milanote. He was very attentive and details orientated with every aspect of apparel design considered.”

    Mckane Martin Lead designer at Beardedgoat

  • Logo for Stelo Acres in green, cursive font.

    "Simon is a true innovator in design and branding. His ability to listen, plan, and execute ideas is remarkable. He consistently shares creative drafts, stories, and strategies that give Stelo positive exposure. His skills in digital design, project management, and sketching are top-notch. Bearded Creative Studio has taken our farm to new levels with fresh ideas and adaptable branding. I’m grateful to call Simon a business partner."

    Steven Stup Founder of Stelo Acres

  • Brand identity logo for small batch beer company

    “Simon was amazing to work with — professional, creative, and efficient. He made timely revisions, understood exactly what we needed, and delivered our artwork in no time at all. The whole process was smooth and enjoyable, and we’re already looking forward to working with him on future projects and designs!”

    Kevin Ryan Co-Founder of Clove Hithc Beer Co

  • logo design for video production company

    "We’re a UK content production company and brought Simon on in early 2025 to guide our rebrand. He gave us focus, helped us explore directions, and land on something that feels truly us. He worked seamlessly with our content, animation, and web teams — no fuss, just made sure everyone had what they needed. The process was fun, and the result better than we hoped. If you’re thinking of hiring him, just do it."

    Crispin Hutton Founder of Thin Reel

Layered - love the effect of soo many layers of my artwork I feel like it reflects my head sometimes anyone else’s head feel like this lately just everything all at once and really loud, I think I need a silence time sometime to get some clarit
Just a fun little graphic created for @glorydaysmag always enjoy recreating some vintage packaging, adding all the little texturing and details really elevates artwork for clients Do you have some needs for vintage inspired artwork or packaging let
I had the absolute pleasure of refreshing the brand of @thinreel this year with redefined logoset, colour palette, typography and full illustration set I will be doing a full case study soon to dig into the whole project Taking bookings for new pr
Creating a full brand voice and visual identity allows you to easily build and produce some really fun applications for your brand without redesigning the wheel So many times I have clients come to me asking for ‘a simple piece of packaging&rs
Creating work that stands out now more than ever requires human touch those little ‘happy mistakes’ that fuel creativity and ideas It means taking risks going against the grain, not looking like every other brand out there right now, be
Just a selection of artwork I have created for anything from apparel to adverts, do you have a project or idea that needs a quality illustrator reach out and let’s work together My books are open for the end of 2025 into early 2026 reach out
The Coffee Roasters’ “Sanctuary Coffee” reached out to me in 2022 for help in elevating and revamping their branding and packaging for them. Their goals were to have a clear visual direction influenced by the 50’s vintage and
This was such a fun brief to work on for @betweenbuildings.production we created such a fun little character with a supporting logo and vibe to compliment her goals, it’s always fun to create fun brands for clients You got something fun brewin
Here is a fun little branding project from a couple years ago with a cute little mark for a furniture business based out of California, the client wanted a clever mark that reflected the furniture he made whilst also the area his business was based.
Some artwork created for the guys over @the_knothole_ for the annual border war game between Wyoming and Colorado State Loved creating this fun piece of artwork maybe I will do a breakdown one day Open for commissions and bookings for 2025 so let