airborne studio. strategic brand design group lead by luke kelly.

airborne studio is the strategic brand design group lead by Luke Kelly. We work with startups to craft meaningful brands and digital products that make a positive difference to the world.

We operate remotely; collaborate on branding, digital product design, user experience, brand strategy, content creation, investor decks; facilitate design sprints to turbo charge creativity and productivity.

Some of our clients

We are a collective of experienced creatives and makers. We form bespoke teams for each project and work globally.

More about Luke

My design career spans more than fifteen years including a decade of agency work in London and seven years running my own studio and consulting directly with clients. I’ve worked remotely from every continent bar Antarctica during a long spell of nomadic living, but now mostly work out of my beautiful office in the centre of Leeds, U.K. As well as client work with Airborne Studio, I also work on a long term consultancy basis with select clients. Currently I am Head of Brand and Content for social app Fledglink and Head of Brand Design for San Francisco agency Truth Cartel.

Fledglink is a UK based startup helping young people work smarter to find the best early career opportunities. We’ve worked with them right from the inception of the idea; supporting them through prototyping and testing, through to securing funding before launching the app on both iOS and Android. Luke continues to work closely with them as Head of Brand and Content.

Brand Strategy
Visual Identity
User Interface
User Experience
Product Strategy
Investor Deck
Web Design
Business Stationery

Blue Rocket is a senior management advisory firm based in Redmond, Washington. Our brand strategy sessions uncovered a love of tough challenges, solving difficult problems and a great sense of responsibility and integrity running right through the team. These values and concepts underpinned all the subsequent creative work we undertook.

Brand Strategy
Visual Identity
Web Design
Pitch Deck
Business stationery

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Dubai based distribution firm Jaspa needed help introducing high-quality Chinese tyre brand Blacklion into the Middle Eastern market. We set about the task of developing the brand and localising it for the region. This included expanding the visual identity, creating a consistent tone of voice, writing content and building a complex website in both English and Arabic.

Brand Strategy
Brand Development
Web Design
Content Strategy
SEO
Copywriting
WordPress
Video & Motion

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Zipwire is a Seattle based software startup that creates digital applications to manage complicated data and connections for enterprise level clients. We have an ongoing relationship with them forged over the last couple of years and several substantial projects. These have ranged from in-depth UI and UX work through to a full company rebrand.

Brand Strategy
Visual Identity
Web Design
User Interface
User Experience
Product Design
Business Stationery

Social Squad is a sub-brand of London based media start-up Ball Street Network. With over 13m followers, the collection of social media accounts they brought together wield significant influence. Our strategy sessions defined them as authentic, grass-roots and fanatical – and they needed a lean identity and simple website to reflect those qualities.

Brand Strategy
Visual Identity
Web Design
Illustration
Pitch Deck

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airborne studio will challenge you, question your assumptions and get you results. Are you in?

Do you have a project that you’d like to discuss? Let’s talk!

Airborne Studio,
Leeming Building,
Vicar Lane,
Leeds LS2 7JF

M: +44 (0)7769 970 056