Associates

Independent collaborators.

Meet associates of [a] design agency. Artists, creatives, designers and makers… Some mavericks and rogues, occasional rule breakers.

The people behind the [a] teams. Delivering collaborative design-led work since 2015.

Individual associates—

Portrait of Oluwaseun Olajumoke, design associate.

Oluwaseun
Olajumoke

Skills provided:
Design

Oluwaseun on:
Behance
Upwork
LinkedIn

Portrait of Luke Pitcher, design associate.

Luke
Pitcher

Skills provided:
Design

Luke on:
LukePitcher.co.uk
LinkedIn

Portrait of Kieron Lewis, design associate.

Kieron
Lewis

Skills provided:
Design

Kieron on:
KieronLewis.com
LinkedIn

Portrait of Andrew Bell, design associate.

Andrew
Bell

Skills provided:
Design + creative lead

Andrew on:
LinkedIn

Photo of Ben Oliphant, design and development associate

Ben
Oliphant

Skills provided:
Design + web development

Ben on:
LinkedIn

Photo of Ashleigh Robertson and her cute dog.

Ashleigh
Robertson

Skills provided:
Animation

Ashleigh on:
AshleighRobertson.com
LinkedIn

Portrait of Mark McAulay with a massive grin on his face.

Mark
McAulay

Stew’s business partner at Don’t Walk LLP between 2018-21.

Mark on:
LinkedIn

Portrait of Kirsten Murray lighting up the studio.

Kirsten
Murray

Skills provided:
Design, art direction + copy

Kirsten on:
KirstenMurray.com
LinkedIn
D&AD pencil winner

A prtrait photo of Kat Summers lookng thoughful on her travels.

Kat
Summers

Skills provided:
Design + copy

Kat on:
KatSummers.design
LinkedIn

Portrait of Connor Lyons in greyscale

Connor
Lyons

Skills provided:
Design

Connor on:
ConnorLyon.co
LinkedIn

portrait of Ben O'Brien in greyscale

Ben
O’Brien

Skills provided:
Illustration

Ben on:
Ben-Obrien.com
LinkedIn

Photo of Jemma Beedie

Jemma
Beedie

Skills provided:
Copywriting

Jemma on:
LinkedIn

A photo of Paul Mullen's dog, Carson. Carson is wearing a plaid shirt.

Paul
Mullen

Skills provided:
Design

Paul on:
Bough.studio
LinkedIn

[Paul looks remarkably like his dog, Carson.]

Portrait of Adam Robertson.

Adam
Robertson

Skills provided:
Photography

Adam on:
LinkedIn

A portrait of Jonathan Addie

Jonathan
Addie

Skills provided:
Photography

Jonathan on:
LinkedIn

These top-class folk make up the [a] teams who deliver projects as [a] design agency. When they’re not working with Stew, they steer their own ships.

Order!

Associates are listed in reverse chronological order from our first collaboration. [This was pretty difficult, as some of these faces have worked with [a] more than once.]

A double exposure style portrait of Stewart Ainslie by Jonathan Addie. Stewart is wearing glasses and is clean shaven on the left of the image. Another photo of Stew is overlayed on the right hand side, in this image he has long stubble no specs!

Stewart Ainslie

Skills provided:
Consulting, design direction, project management, facilitation and (reluctant) bookkeeping.

Stew on:
StewartAinslie.co.uk
LinkedIn

Acknowledgements

Individuals and organisations who have been involved in the early days, as third parties or in a non-commercial capacity.

Individuals:

Stefan Morrison, Paul Scharf, Eilidh McCluskie, Owain Kirby, David Galletly, Lewis Wardrop, Grant Crockett, Rob McDougal and Asa Roger.

Organisations:

Team Impression, Compass Print, TB Dunn & Co, G.F Smith, Fenner Paper, Foilco, Frame Agency, WPA Pinfold, Windmill Printing, Nettl Stirling.