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Mark Beever

Brand Strategy & Brand Experience Designer

€695/day
Edinburgh, GB
15+ years

Average response time: 1 hour

About Mark

I work with organisations that have outgrown their current brand expression, where there is clarity in the business but inconsistency in how that clarity is communicated across teams, channels, and experiences.

My focus is on turning complexity into structured brand systems that can actually be used in practice. That means defining clear positioning, building coherent narratives, and translating them into identity systems that hold together across digital, physical, and spatial environments.

Rather than treating brand as a purely visual exercise, I work from the structure outward, aligning strategy, messaging, and identity into a single system that teams can apply consistently without interpretation drift.

This often involves:
– clarifying or refining brand positioning in complex or evolving organisations
– designing identity systems that scale across multiple touchpoints and audiences
– translating strategic intent into usable visual and communication frameworks
– helping teams align quickly around direction when there is fragmentation or ambiguity

I bring over 20 years of experience working with organisations navigating change, growth, or repositioning, helping leadership teams reduce complexity and turn it into clear, consistent brand systems that can be delivered in real-world environments.
  • English

    Native or bilingual

  • French

    Fluent

Can work on-site
Edinburgh (up to 50km), Glasgow (up to 30km), Stirling (up to 10km)

Experience

  • Expanding Circle Studio
    Brand identity and messaging designer
    March 2024 - Today (2 years and 3 months)
    Edinburgh, United Kingdom
    Focused on brand identity, messaging and content design for organisations across a range of sectors including finance, education and consumer brands. Work spans shaping brand direction, refining messaging, and delivering design outputs across digital and physical applications.
  • Agency & Studio Roles (Global)
    Creative Director / Brand & Experience Lead
    January 2003 - March 2024 (21 years and 2 months)
    Senior creative leader with 20+ years’ experience shaping brand, storytelling and experience systems across digital, physical and experiential environments.

    Led multidisciplinary teams and client engagements spanning brand strategy, identity systems, campaigns, customer experience, environmental design, digital platforms and interactive experiences across finance, culture, education, technology and government.

    Work includes developing brand systems and integrated campaigns, and designing customer-facing experiences across retail, spatial, digital and interactive touchpoints.

    Working across strategy through to hands-on design and delivery, ensuring ideas are practical, buildable and consistently executed in real-world contexts. Often working directly within teams to translate concepts into clear, usable outputs across multiple formats and channels.

    Collaborated with agencies, studios and in-house teams globally from concept through to delivery.
    User Experience Design Design System Visual identity Positioning strategy Creative

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