About

I’m Paul Currah — an award-winning graphic designer and illustrator with 20 years experience. From my studio in Cornwall, I specialise in crafting enduring ideas first branding, packaging, illustration and digital design.

I am personable, enthusiastic and hard working. I am in my element when creatively collaborating with design agencies as a freelancer, or with clients directly as an independent brand designer.

Here are three things I can give you:

1. Big branding agency experience

I've worked as a designer/design director at branding agencies such as Turner Duckworth, Bloom, Dynamo, Superunion, The Partners, Modern Designers, DutchScot, Radford Wallis and Carter Wong.

I’ve worked with clients directly at brands such as ABinBev, BBC, Britvic, Deloitte, Diageo, Gatwick Airport, Hershey’s, Henkel, Intel, Jim Beam, Kerry Foods, KP Snacks, Land Securities, Pilgrim Foods, The National Gallery, Vodafone, Waitrose and many more.

2. Small brand expertise

I also really enjoy working with start-ups and small brands.

I helped create The Paleo Foods Co brand in 2013, which started life as hand packed product samples in health food shops, evolving into a mammoth brand that is stocked in major supermarkets today.

I regularly take on projects with artists, festivals, musicians, photographers, yoga teachers … and everyone in between!

3. Extra large results

I’ve been very fortunate to work with many wonderful people on some of the best projects imaginable. I’ve been a part of projects that have won six D&AD pencils, two Design Week wins, plus awards from Cannes Design Lions, Art Directors Club, Clios, New York Festivals and more. 

But one of the most humbling and proudest achievements of my career so far has been helping charities access big branding agency expertise and achieve extra large results. I worked with Macmillan Cancer Support for 10 years on over 170 creative projects — playing a part in helping them increase their income by 61%, reach 69% more people and raise spend on cancer services by 71% / £74.9m.

Interested in working together?

Please send me an email with brief details of your project, which would be kindly appreciated. Following this we can arrange a call, or if you’re local I’d be happy to meet for a coffee!

paul@currah.co

  • “Paul is a fantastic Design Director and has brought a lot to Turner Duckworth in the time he has been with us. We’ll certainly be working with him again at the next possible opportunity. As well as being great at design, Paul is insightful, organised, excellent to work with and a really good guy. We’d recommend him for any design projects.”

    Georgina Leigh-Pemberton — Managing Director at Turner Duckworth

  • “Paul is an absolute pleasure to work with and an absolute pro. He combines great creativity with pragmatism and experience. Paul brings an energy and positivity to work with him every day, which is infectious. Love working with him.”

    Jamie Helly — Executive Chairman at Dynamo Dublin

  • “Paul is a tried, tested and reliable regular here at Superunion in both Senior Designer and Design Director capacities. Paul always gets great feedback from creative and account teams, highly craft driven and exceptionally dedicated alongside a very nice person to work alongside also.”

    Tom Gledhill — Resourcing Manager at Superunion

  • “I worked closely with Paul to create The 'Paleo Foods Co' brand over 8 years ago. Since then we have continued to work with Paul to develop all of our packaging, and imagery for website/social. Paul always puts forward creative suggestions on design briefs and we love his style of bold, iconic and colourful designs, with execution on a par with big design agencies. He's also been very reliable and flexible and helped us out on urgent jobs! I'd highly recommend Paul Currah's design services.”

    Claire Dinsmore — Founder, The Paleo Foods Co

  • “Working with Paul is a pleasure. He’s a true professional, who takes time to thoroughly understand a brief, provides a clear and fully costed proposal, communicates clearly throughout and, most importantly, really delivers. You can always trust Paul to hit the core of the brief, and to bring that little bit of creative flair on top.”

    Nick Mackin — Macmillan Cancer Support