Harlow Quinn

Hello, I’m Harlow

Developer/Designer

Design and Dev work, from start to end.

I work with small teams on identity, product and the websites in between — one project at a time, start to finish.

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Available for one project from March

Solvei Fold Marrow Roasters Atrium Studio Vellum Press Northbound Kastrup Kunsthal Ordinary Goods

Selected work

Six projects from the last two years. Each one is written up properly — what the problem turned out to be, and what it cost to solve.

All work
Three matte ceramic skincare bottles on a pale plaster ledge

Skincare Identity & packaging 2026

Solvei

A skincare line with nine products and no interest in shouting. The identity had to survive a 12mm label and still read across a shelf.

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A smartphone on a pale oak desk showing a minimal finance dashboard

Fintech Product design 2025

Fold

A savings app for people who find money stressful. We redesigned around the two screens that actually get opened, and deleted most of the rest.

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A kraft coffee bag with a die-cut geometric mark beside scattered beans

Coffee Identity & packaging 2025

Marrow Roasters

A roastery that wanted to stop looking like a roastery. One mark, one paper stock, and a numbering system that does the branding for us.

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An open laptop on a travertine table showing a spacious minimal website

Architecture Website 2025

Atrium Studio

An architecture practice whose old site made their buildings look small. We gave the photographs the whole screen and got out of the way.

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Four slim hardback books with plain uncoated covers, one spine in lime

Publishing Art direction 2024

Vellum Press

A cover system for an independent press publishing twelve books a year on a budget that allowed one photograph, total.

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A folded technical cycling jersey beside an aluminium bottle, overhead view

Apparel Brand system 2024

Northbound

Cycling apparel for people who ride to work rather than race. The identity had to work stitched, printed, reflective, and 4mm tall.

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Latest writing

Short pieces about how the work actually goes, published when I have something worth saying rather than on a schedule.

All writing

What I can take on

Four things, done properly. If what you need is not on this list, say so anyway — I will tell you honestly whether it is mine to do.

Brand identity
The mark, the type, the palette, and the rules that keep them honest once a dozen people are using them without me.
Product design
Interfaces designed against real content and real edge cases, handed over as components your engineers can actually build.
Websites
Design and front-end in one pass. Fast, accessible, and editable by whoever ends up owning it after I leave.
Art direction
Photography, illustration and layout held to one point of view across a launch, a campaign, or a whole catalogue.

How a project runs

The same four stages every time, with the dates agreed before we start. The numbers are the order things actually happen in.

  1. 01

    Read the room

    A week of interviews, competitor teardowns and reading whatever you have already written. I come back with what I think the real problem is.

  2. 02

    Pick a direction

    One direction, argued properly, with the reasoning attached. If it is wrong we find out in week two rather than week nine.

  3. 03

    Build it out

    The direction becomes a real system: type, colour, layout, components, and the pages that will carry the most weight.

  4. 04

    Hand it over

    Files, guidelines and a walkthrough recorded for whoever joins next. Two weeks of support while it goes live.

Got something you want made properly?

Tell me what it is, when it needs to exist, and what you have tried already. I answer every email within two days, including the ones I have to say no to.

hello@harlowquinn.com

Currently booking from March 2026.