Origins
Alastair is a strategic creative based in Bristol, working at the intersection of brand, design and direction.
Over the last seven years, he’s helped shape brands, campaigns and digital experiences for schools, commercial businesses and ambitious organisations looking to sharpen how they’re seen - and remembered.
Alastair has led projects spanning positioning, verbal identity, creative direction, campaigns, websites and brand systems. The thread running through it all: clarity with character. Thoughtful strategy. Strong ideas. Work that actually moves people.
He’s particularly known for translating complex thinking into brands that feel human, articulate and emotionally intelligent, whether that’s repositioning a 400-year-old school, launching an organic food brand, or helping organisations sound more like themselves and less like everyone else.
His approach is balanced: strategic enough to ask difficult questions, creative enough to make the answers interesting.
Outside the studio, he’s usually obsessing over typography, transport systems, Scandinavian design, rowing machines, why some brands feel timeless and others feel like a LinkedIn post, and whether there’s a cleaner way to structure absolutely everything.

Souces of Inspiration
A selection of sources from which I take inspiration and would highly recommend.
Books
Marketing Strategy and Management
Michael J Baker
Consumer Behaviour: A European Perspective
Michael R. Solomon, Gary Bamossy, Søren Askegaard & Margaret K. Hogg
NO LOGO
Naomi Klien
A History of Western Philosophy
Bertrand Russell
The Medium is the Massage
Marshall McLuhan & Quentin Fiore
The Artist's Way
Julia Cameron
Publications
Monocle Magazine
Wallpaper* Magazine
Creative Review
Podcasts
Monocle on Design
The Globalist
The Monocle Daily