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Fewer decisions, made properlyBrand identity

Brand and product design for companies that make something real — serving London, United Kingdom and specializing in Brand identity, Product design, Packaging.

Maya Oyelaran
Maya Oyelaran — portrait

About

Fewer decisions, made properly

I trained as an industrial designer and moved into brand work when I realised the products I liked best were the ones whose packaging, interface and support pages all sounded like the same company. Twelve years later that is still the job: making the parts agree with each other. I work directly with founders, usually as the only designer, and I hand over systems rather than files — colour, type and spacing rules written so the next person does not have to guess what I meant.

0Years designing
0Products shipped
  • Brand identity
  • Product design
  • Packaging

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What I do

Services & expertise

Brand identity

Naming through to a finished system — marks, type, colour and the rules that keep them consistent once I hand over.

Product design

Interface work for teams without a designer in the room. Flows, screens, and a component library your engineers can build from.

Packaging

Structural and surface design for physical products, taken through to print-ready artwork and a real conversation with your printer.

Design systems

Documented rules so the next ten screens look like the first ten, whoever draws them and whenever they get drawn.

Art direction

Photography and campaign direction, briefing and running shoots so the imagery matches everything else you have.

Workshops

Two days with your team to get positioning and visual direction agreed before anyone opens a design tool.

My Resume

What I bring to a project

What I bring to a project

Brand identity95%
Product & UI design88%
Packaging & print82%
Design systems90%
Art direction76%
  • Figma
  • Illustrator
  • Blender
  • After Effects
  • Cinema 4D
  • Framer

Awards & features

Design Week Award — PackagingDesign Week — 2025
D&AD Wood PencilD&AD — 2024
Type Directors Club CertificateTDC — 2023
Creative Review AnnualCreative Review — 2022

Selected work

Recent work

Kestrel BicyclesKestrel BicyclesBrand & Packaging
Halden CeramicsHalden CeramicsIdentity
Ferrow AudioFerrow AudioProduct Design
Norrland ProvisionsNorrland ProvisionsPackaging
Atlas Field ToolsAtlas Field ToolsBrand & Web
Meridian CoffeeMeridian CoffeeIdentity & Packaging
Colour tests for the Kestrel rangeColour tests for the Kestrel range
Type specimen, second passType specimen, second pass
Packaging mock-ups on the benchPackaging mock-ups on the bench
Wayfinding studies, Harbour LineWayfinding studies, Harbour Line
Swatch book for the autumn paletteSwatch book for the autumn palette
Editorial grid, working spreadsEditorial grid, working spreads
Signage prototypes at half scaleSignage prototypes at half scale
Press check, Kestrel cataloguePress check, Kestrel catalogue

Kind words

What clients say

Iva KristiansenFounder, Halden Ceramics
Maya spent the first week in the workshop rather than at a desk, and it showed in everything that followed. She understood that the mark had to work stamped into wet clay before it worked anywhere else, which is not a constraint I had thought to explain. We came away with a system I have applied myself a dozen times since without needing to ask her what was allowed.
Daniel OkonkwoHead of Product, Ferrow Audio
We had eighteen months of feature requests and an app that showed all of them at once. Maya's first deliverable was a list of things to remove, with the reasoning attached, and it was uncomfortable reading in the best way. Support tickets about the settings screen dropped to almost nothing after launch, which is the only metric I actually cared about.
Rowan EllisManaging Director, Atlas Field Tools
What I valued most was being told no. We asked for a heritage look and Maya explained, with examples, why that would put us in the same bracket as companies charging half our price. She was right, and the version we shipped has aged far better than the one I originally asked for would have done.

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Tell me what you are making and where it is stuck. I reply to everything within two working days.

AddressLondon, United Kingdom