Yugen Agency

We're a creative studio dedicated to helping climate-led companies.

We’ve driven millions of visits to websites and helped secure millions in funding, working with diverse clients from DAC startups to ESG organisations.

Services:
→ Brand Strategy
→ Brand Identity Design
→ Rebrands
→ Website Design
→ 3D Animation
→ UX & Product Design

Co-founder at Yugen Agency

River Paige

Brand Strategy & Digital Design

Lumenautica Yacht Signs

Responsible for:
- Brand Identity redesign to reposition as pioneers in the Luxury Superyacht space. Log
- Management of Wordpress website, development and updates
- Cohesive setup of all social media channels - graphics, banners, bios etc.
- Google Adwords campaign strategy and management
- Email signature creation and management of newsletter campaigns via Mailchimp
- 3D CAD photo-realistic renderings of Yacht Signs to pitch to clients
- Creation of content for website and social including photorealistic renders and product photography
- Technical drawings, wiring schematics and design for manufacture for fabrication & PVD coating
- Graphic & design, sourcing and printing for high-end stationary: brochures, business cards, welcome packs, exhibition stands, instruction manuals & collateral
- Liaising with clients and shipyards to discuss project needs
- Exhibiting at Superyacht tradeshows
- Project management for over 30+ projects catering to some of the most prestigious superyachts in the world

Brand Designer

Displaylite Limited

A unique opportunity, as Lead Designer working alongside experienced engineers specialising in touch screen technology.

Interactive Furniture Design Intern

Most climate tech brands get lost in the noise.

Not because the product isn’t good.
But because their messaging doesn’t land.
People don’t know what makes them different.
And they aren’t sure what category they’re in.

Playing it safe costs you attention, trust + deals.

I help climate tech startups:

🏴 Stand out in a crowded space
🏴 Win high-value deals
🏴 Become the brand people trust first

I take complex ideas and turn them into clear stories and strong visuals so your brand is easy to understand and hard to forget.

I’ve helped Series A+ teams raise millions, land major partnerships and take the lead in their industry.

Find out where your brand is losing deals and how to stand out
↳ Get a free Brand & Messaging Audit built for climate tech companies in growth mode.

De Montfort University

Senior Lecturer Product Design

University of Northampton

Senior Lecturer - Product Design Innovation Research + Practice

University of Salford

Programme Leader - MA:AD Product Innovation

Modules:
Research Strategies + Practices
Innovation Futures
User Experience
Products Semantics + Interface Design
Enterprise Contexts
Negotiated Thesis Project
Manufacturing Strategies + Contexts
Professional Practice


Curriculum delivery encompasses Product & Spatial Design, Design Visualisation & Prototyping, Innovation Strategy, Process and Methodologies. Emotional Design & Branding. Entrepreneurship & employability.

Research focuses on scenarios of assisted living, emotional design, application of embedded technology. Encompasses ethnographic & user behaviour modelling. Methodologies of  user centred & co-design.

visiting Erasmus Lecturer 
Hochschule für gestaltung, Schwäbisch Gmünd

UG + PG Lecturer -  Design Innovation Research + Practice

University of Wolverhampton

PRACTICES:
Programme Leader
Academic & Personal Tutor
Learning Management & Assessment
Module Delivery at levels 4, 5, 6 + 7

ACHIEVEMENTS :
2001 Launched a BA Hons Interior Design Programme
2003 Launched MA Product Innovation Programme
Developed  on-line Digital Media Curriculum – Archi-CAD / Solid-Works 
Launched specialist Critical studies modules encompassing entrepreneurship
Established Employers Forum + Student Placement network

RESEARCH:
Reflective Writing for Studio Practice
2002 Writing-PAD Symposium York St. John University College York
Critical Writing as a tool for Innovation
2004 Writing-PAD Symposium Wolverhampton Uni.
Design Thesis as a Portfolio Artefact
2005 Writing-PAD Symposium Central St Martin’s London

UG + PG - Senior Lecturer - Design Innovation + Critical Studies

Design Pieniazek

PRACTICES:
Contracting multi-disciplinary design services to the creative industries, encompassing a diverse range of sectors and wide client base.
Product Features + Brand design , Experience + Venue,Interpretation, Proposal Negotiation and Client liaison.
Design Research + Innovation, Digital Visualization + Specification, Prototyping/Installation + Project Management.

CLIENT BASE:
   Checkland Kindleysides - Leicester
   Abbey Design Studios -  Leicester
   Atkinson Design Associates - Leicester
Renfrew Group - Leicester
   Envisage - Stoke-on-Trent
   Broxap - Stoke-on-Trent
   Hutchinson & Leek - Manchester
   EAG - Manchester
   APEX Events - Macclesfield
   Gardiner-Caldwell Communications - Macclesfield
   PEAK Projects - Chesterfield

Associate Designer

Hutchinson + Leek

Brand Concept Visualiser

De Montfort University (DMU)

PRACTICES:	
   School coordinator for visuals studies & design visualisation
   Academic & Pastoral Personal Tutor
   Learning Management + Assessment
   Panel member of School T&L committee
   Module Delivery at levels 4, 5, 6 + 7

ACHEIVEMENTS:
   1998 Launched the school resource centre for ‘visual studies & design visualisation’
   1998 Developed  on-line ‘drawing for creative practice’ programme - overseas delivery 
   1999 Launched the school online  archive  ‘Drawing Creativity’

RESEARCH:
   Drawing as a Creative Discourse
   1998  Fast Draw – Symposium &  Exhibition - Huddersfield University
Curator for School Symposium – ‘Creative Lines’
   1999 School of Art & Design, De Montfort University
Drawing on Reflections 
   School exhibition exploring drawing as a narrative & discursive practice
   2000 School of Art & Design, De Montfort University

UG + PG Senior Lecturer - Design Innovation + Visualisation

Axiom Design Resource Ltd

Brand Concept  Visualiser

Manchester Metropolitan University

Studio Tutor 
User Research
Product Design &  Innovation
Design Visualisation & Prototyping

UG + PG Associate Lecturer -  3D Design Innovation

Stoke on Trent College

PRACTICES:
Curriculum Leader for 3D + Ceramics Curriculum
2 HND programmes
A&D Foundation Pathway
3 BTEC National Diplomas
2 BTEC National Certificates
Line manager for 12 academic & 4 support staff
Coordinator for ‘Ceramics Evening Institute’
Coordinator for ‘Day Centre’ Cluster
Franchise Link Academic with Staffordshire University
Ceramics Industry Link Academic
Panel member -  ‘Hot House’  Innovation Group

ACHIEVEMENTS :	
1995   Implementation of HND Programme + HE Progression network
1996  Established 'Digital Media Practices for Ceramics Industries' Group – CITB host
1997 Successful Bid for European Funding to support Industry Training in Digital media

RESEARCH:
Curator- ‘Digital Media & Ceramic Cultures’
1996  Symposium &  Exhibition – CITB host - Stoke-on-Trent College
Stereo-Lithography for Ceramic Modelling
1997 Ceramics Industry Symposium – World Gate Centre, Stoke On Trent

Curriculum Leader - Product Design + Industrial Ceramics

Focused on curriculum and practice which develops the sustainability in the three 'e's of enterprise, entrepreneurship and employability.

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