Isabel Lea is a Designer and Creative Director based in London. She undertakes design and art direction commissions, creative residencies and research projects, creating work on the themes of culture, design, technology and language. She has led international rebrands and campaigns during her time living in the UK, US and Denmark Most recently she has completed global projects for Adobe, Shopify, Panasonic, and The Design Museum.

Alongside a commercial practice, she creates public artworks, most recently as a Design Researcher in Residence at The Design Museum, a Google Rare Leadership Fellow and an Adobe Creative Resident. Her work has been featured on the BBC, It’s Nice That and in The Telegraph, Wallpaper and DesignWeek. She has delivered talks for AIGA in LA, The Design Museum in London, 99u in New York and TYPO in Berlin.

Isabel works across Art, Design, Creative Direction, Strategy, Branding, Typefaces, Books, Experiences, Technology, Installations, Writing, Film and Photo, as well as practice based talks and workshops. She is available for freelance comissions.

For a small sample of mixed artist and commercial work, please see here.
For previous agency work, please see ATYPICAL
For more details, please email isabel@isabellea.co.uk

Sample Client List

Adobe, Meta, WeTransfer, The Design Museum, Unity, Bang and Olufsen, Shopify, The Danish Embassy, Panasonic LUMIX, Aarhus Museum of Art, Maersk, The FA (Football Association), Royal Danish Academy of Art, The David Bowie Foundation, Nordisk Film, Playtype, The Danish Arts Foundation, Grimshaw Architects, CPH Stage.