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Clean, green and creative. Add down to earth, easy-going, brimful of ideas and bang into what we do.
As a team, we're hugely experienced and have proven success on all scales, in all areas: from consumer, through public to private sector, from the largest to the smallest businesses. More than anything, though, we're all about you, the client, our values and how we work.
The best results, the best way possible.
Matt's been designing for 15 years, for the likes of the National Trust, Sky, Lego, Save the Children and the Eden Project. He's been breaking the mould for almost as long: he set up the multi-award-winning Leap - design for change in 2004, merging his passions for design and the environment (he's won prizes and everything). Mainly, he's changed the way people think about design and, more broadly, how they work. Sounds like a big thing, IS a big thing; Matt opened the door and let sustainability in; no one will be shutting it any time soon.
Few survive that frontier country where creativity meets project management, meets marketing. Charlie positively thrives there, having had years of marketing experience in graphic design, media and publishing. She's the first point of contact for clients, as well as for the design team, which means her communication and management skills go WAY beyond smiling and nodding. In fact, if her communication and management skills were a muscle, she'd be able to pick up a car with it (just a petrol-electric hybrid, obviously).
Claire's followed up her ‘Unlocking Cornish Potential’ placement with two successful years. A graduate of Bath University, she's worked on loads of exciting projects, including The Little Book of Mind and for clients such as Bedruthan Steps Hotel, Good Energy and the National Trust. Creative and naturally talented, Claire's special knack is for translating concepts into images and illustrations.
Lee's a skilful all-rounder with a particularly good eye for photography. He's a graphic design graduate from University College Falmouth and, although he only joined in 2008, he's been quick to make his mark, most recently by rebranding a £30m turnover IT company and working on a triple box set language-learning board game.
With a degree in business, Claire is now working towards her chartered accountancy qualification. Having carved her way down the slopes in the ski industry abroad, Claire has moved 'off piste' and is now working for Leap three days a week. She is responsible for Leap's administration and cash flow; she greases Leap's financial cogs and in the process brings a calm and organised influence to the studio.
Chris studied journalism at University College Falmouth; he first got a taste for all things Leap when he came on a work placement and just couldn't tear himself away. Chris specialises in marketing and PR, as well as writing snappy press releases and attention-grabbing award entries (in the short time he's been with Leap, he's already written a winning entry for the Media Innovation Awards).
Graham's background (a degree in Maths and Computing) prepared him well for the business of designing and developing applications for a wide range of national and international clients. He specialises in web technologies and database systems, which effectively means that, alongside our designers, he makes sure websites aren't just good-looking, but easy to use, reliable and intuitive, too.
Leap aims to support and inspire the organisations and individuals we meet in making more environmentally responsible choices in the way they work.
Our team is made up of a core studio group plus a collective of designers, artists, illustrators and developers. Find out who they are!
We have put together a list of resources that can help you move towards a greener practice whatever your business!
Find out who said what about Leap!