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Mara ValeIndependent creative directorManchester · working worldwide

Independent creative direction · 2024—26

Make the work
impossible to miss.

Identity, campaign and digital direction for organisations with something meaningful to put into the world.

01 Featured projectMorrow & PineView case study ↗Selected work

Practice / 01

Ideas are only interesting when they survive contact with materials, screens and real people.

This portfolio keeps the thinking close to the final work: the brief, the system and the decisions that hold it together.

Selected work / 02

Six projects.
Six distinct worlds.

Brand identity, editorial, fashion, spatial and digital work—each shaped around a different problem rather than one repeating visual trick.

Approach / 03

Clear thinking.
Visibly made.

  1. 01

    Find the useful tension

    Research the context, name the real decision and resist decorating the wrong answer.

  2. 02

    Build one strong world

    Connect image, type, material and behaviour so every touchpoint feels related—not repeated.

  3. 03

    Test it where it lives

    Put the system through awkward content, small screens and real production constraints before launch.

Availability / 04

Two project openings · Q1 2027
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