Mary Hemingway is a graphic designer and founder and creative director of platform Design by Women.

Specialising in brand identities,
editorial design
 and illustration.

I approached Mary Hemingway Design to create the branding concept for my freelance enterprise specialising in illustrated greetings cards and accessories. Mary took the time to understand the nature of my business, it’s values and my vision for the branding. After initially creating inspirational mood boards she started her design work; offering me a variety of choices to take forward. The final products are better than I could have imagined. Mary’s specialism in graphic design and illustration has ensured that the branding is both contemporary, ideal for my market and fits my product line perfectly. Thank you so much Mary!

Nat Ellis, Belle & Betty

Mary is a thorough professional who is able to combine creativity with commercial awareness to assist organisations in reaching target audiences in the most efficient and engaging way while transmitting the values and key tenets of your brand with integrity.

Sarah Drew, Assistant Principle, Burton and South Derbyshire College

Working with Mary means you place your trust in someone who you can be confident will deliver what you need. We worked with Mary on a number of brand activities including our Make Your Mark campaign that successfully underpinned our engagement activity and contributed to increased attendance at recruitment events.

Sarah Drew, Assistant Principle, Burton and South Derbyshire College

Tasked with creating the branding for our London-based Italian pop-up food business, Mary interpreted the (rather loose!) brief exactly as we hoped.  She was great to work with – asked all the right questions to really make us think about the brand’s identity and incorporated our ideas brilliantly.  The end result felt fresh, creative and most importantly, very ‘Donatina’s’!

Jennifer Velu, Co-owner, Donatina’s Neapolitan Kitchen

Mary was great … I gave her a very vague description of what I wanted and the designs she created exceeded my expectations. She is lovely and nothing seemed too much trouble.

Jenny Peters, Company Director, JJ Accounting

Having worked with Mary previously I was confident that our project would be handled professionally and a quality result delivered – we certainly haven’t been disappointed!

Mary always completes design work promptly, following the original brief but making positive and helpful suggestions to improve the outcome. We have been really impressed with the work that Mary has completed for us, and look forward to working with her on new projects in the future.

Fiona Southcott, Marketing Manager, Eland Lodge Equestrian