Different by default

In an industry founded mostly by men, and only loosely concerned with climate, we design differently by default. We are a team driven by purpose who believe in thoughtful design and bold ideas and work together to create meaningful, lasting change.

Our Team

Lisa Henderson (she/her): Co-founder / Creative Director

An image of Lisa Henderson, ilia's Creative Director.

Driving our creative vision, Lisa blends strategic thinking with bold, culture-driven design. A confident leader and communicator, she champions originality, guides the team to craft distinctive, sustainable brands, and ensures every output is high-quality, conceptually strong, and impactful.

Laura Service (she/her): Co-founder / Strategic Director

An image of Laura Service, ilka's Strategic Director.

Laura crafts future-focused brand strategies rooted in sustainability and insight. With deep knowledge of trends and behaviour, she helps clients navigate complexity, define goals, and drive lasting impact bringing thoughtful direction to every stage of the journey.

Kyle Taylor (he/they): Design Producer

An image of Kyle Taylor, ilka's Design Producer

Kyle ensures seamless delivery and lasting brand integrity through well-crafted systems and toolkits. Detail-oriented and structure-driven, they build frameworks that bring brands to life, create guidelines, train teams, and enable smooth transitions with consistent, lasting brand execution.

Columba McCallum (she/her): Junior Designer

Columba creates visual ideas that balance clarity with creativity. She brings passion and energy to every project, ensuring work is both strategically considered and crafted to the highest standard. Eager to learn and collaborate, Columba develops thoughtful visual ideas and identities.

Collaborators

Andrew Bell (he/him): Designer

Emma Lally (she/her): Brand Creative

Emma Fraser (she/her): Copywriter

Caitlin Brady (she/her): Strategic Copywriter

Shaunie Brett (she/her): Strategist

Amanda Irwin (she/her): Impact Consultant

Method of change

Our regenerative process turns visions of change into tangible reality.

We build bold, strategic brands that redefine sectors, generate impact and lead change rather than following trends. Never just a logo, our brands are living toolkits grounded in purpose. They bring clarity and creativity to your storytelling, helping you cut through the noise and connect in an increasingly complex world. Always built to last, we work hand-in-hand with our clients to ensure every brand is accessible, sustainable, and simple to carry forward.

Your brand is a powerful tool for shaping our future. Let’s create one that people and the planet truly deserve.

Our process follows the Double Diamond framework – first opening up to understand the challenge fully, then refining our focus to shape the right solution. This approach ensures we stay thoughtful and deliberate, creating work that’s not just effective, but grounded in meaning and made to matter.

Discover: We listen, learn and dig deep to uncover insight that shapes everything — finding the truth behind what makes your brand matter.

Define: We make it clear. Exploration and idea testing bring strategy, voice and vision together to build out your brand, translating purpose into identity and creating a bold foundation from which to grow and flourish

Design: We make it real. Once your brand is solidified, we’ll collaborate with you to design functional deliverables that you can take ownership of.