Reviews, recommendations and testimonials for blade creative (Clare Blackstock), graphic designer in Melbourne.

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  • Own Little World

    The amazing talented Clare has once again produced the most beautiful artwork for our business. Always a pleasure to work with, Clare totally hit our brief within our timeframe and with minimal fuss. We're looking forward to working with Clare soon on our next project.

    Cathy Capomollo, Owner, ownlittleworld.com.au (testimonial via Google Reviews)

  • Good Dirt Foods

    I highly recommend Blade Creative for all of your graphic design needs.

    Clare from Blade Creative has been exceptional to work with. She worked with us to develop our brand concept and in turn produced a logo, packaging and an assortment of marketing paraphernalia that we love and feel truly represent us!

    Leanne Pogue, co-founder, gooddirtfoods.com.au (testimonial via Google Reviews)

  • Jambo Foods

    DClare did an amazing job with my logo and brand design. She is great to work with, extremely knowledgeable and professional. Highly recommend working with Blade Creative.

    Faiza Abdulgafur, founder, Jambo Foods jambofoods.com.au (testimonial via Google Reviews)

  • Whipbird Communications

    I worked with Clare to refresh and develop a new logo and colour palette to help brand my business. Clare was able to take my thoughts and words and create a logo and brand that perfectly captured the essence of what I was looking for to represent my business; and I am thrilled with the result!

    Nicola Welch, Whipbird Communications whipbirdcomms.com.au (testimonial via Google Reviews)

  • Kristin Niven Events

    I came to Clare with my brand design somewhat already established. However the website was not really reflective of the business purpose and I was after a tweek to the brand's colours to enhance it's vision. Clare was briefed to develop the brand colour further for website enhancement, and knew exactly what elements were needed to provide a fresh look. More recently with a change of business name we kept the developed colours with Clare designing new logos reflective of the new name. As the business was not changing any other elements, apart from the name - we wanted to keep a similar look to the original design. With that in mind Clare designed a new logo providing a style of elegance, classiness yet contemporary look - a true reflection of the purpose of the business and also a reflection of myself as Founder of the business. Clare also developed a reference guide for logo specifications use - a very useful tool when using your branding elements in the future. Her design expertise, attention to detail, customer service and collaborative nature is outstanding and I would highly recommend Clare to any business for their branding and design.

    Kristine Niven, knevents.com.au (testimonial via LinkedIn)

  • Lightret

    I am extremely impressed with the highest level of customer service, that I received from Clare of Blade Creative. Throughout the complete process she kept me well informed, was very collaborative and creative. Developing our company’s brand with Blade Creative was by far the best decision I could have ever made! The finished brand is exactly what I was looking for and should enhance our companies’ web page beautifully.

    I will be recommending your company to all my friends and associates.

    Job well done Clare.

    Fungai C Mandiri, Director, Lightret lightret.com.au (testimonial via Google Reviews)

  • Flourish Mindfully

    Thank you Clare for another great experience with getting my business cards updated with ease. I'm grateful to have you on my support team, for my business brand needs.

    Nicky Angelone, Flourish Mindfully flourishmindfully.com.au

  • Firebird Milk

    Clare did a brilliant job designing my logo and capturing my brand identity. She was able to understand and gather the different ideas that were floating randomly around my head, and create a beautiful, focused design that embodies exactly what I want and the vision I had. Working with Clare was a dream. She's not only a fantastic designer, she's also intuitive and really listens.

    Antoinette Martin, Founder, Firebird Milk

  • Arabian Bites

    Clare has designed everything for my business, from the logo to the packaging and everything in between. I can't say enough on how lucky I am to have found Clare. She is truly gifted. When I give Clare something to work on, I can't wait to see the result because I know it will be amazing and exceed all my expectations. While working on my packaging, Clare had to make constant changes and she never complained. I look forward to working with Clare on more designs and I highly recommend Clare for all design needs.

    Mona Lumani, Founder, Arabian Bites arabianbites.com.au

  • Food for fingers

    Clare developed a new brand and packaging designs for our company Food For Fingers. We found the process straightforward and enjoyable and we are absolutely delighted with our new brand identity!! We will definitely be using Blade Creative for all our design needs in the future.

    Rebecca Halfpenny, Founder, Food for Fingers foodforfingers.com.au

  • Amanda Kate

    Clare was absolutely fabulous to work with. Her work is timely, her service is flawless and for what she delivers she is an amazingly valuable asset. I am so happy with the work she has done for me with stylish, elegant and timeless branding that reflects who I am, my values and beliefs for business. I'd recommend Clare to anyone needing help with their business branding.

    Amanda Kate, Amanda Kate Passion & Purpose Coaching and Kinesiology amandakate.com.au

  • ESA2

    Clare's service was fantastic. She was organised, professional and really easy to communicate with during our consultations, AND she nailed the brand. I had a great experience with Clare and recommend engaging her!

    Natasha Reifschneider, founder, ESA2 esa2.com.au

  • Eleviate

    I contacted Blade Creative after hearing excellent things about Clare’s brand identity work and she exceeded all my expectations.

    From start till finish she was professional, knowledgeable and so easy to work with, what I thought would be a complicated process was much more flawless than anticipated. The brand logo she created for me is absolutely dead on to brief, and I not only believe she committed to being tune to my needs, she really took the time to understand and connect with how important the brand meant to me and the messages I wanted to convey. A rare skill these days. She even encouragingly let me tweak my own ideas into it creating a logo and brand identity I am emotionally connected to and extremely proud of.

    I won’t hesitate to use Clare and Blade Creative again in the future.

    Thank you again for your vision to help me create mine.

    Kelly Millard, founder Eleviate

  • Speaking to Win

    Clare is the best, the consummate professional – thorough, dependable, patient, a great communicator, creative and talented. I love the way Clare “creates her magic”. She doesn’t just launch in and create a logo design. Rather, she strives to carefully and methodically analyse and fully understand her clients’ likes, needs, and expectations - in the form of a comprehensive questionnaire followed by a face-to-face meeting. Liaising with Clare to finalise the look-and-feel of my chosen logo, was an easy, seamless and enjoyable process. I love my new logo design and feel that Clare has beautifully and elegantly captured the vision I have for my future new business. Thank you Clare!

    Susan Wesser, Speaking2Win speakingtwowin.com.au

  • Ioanna Serpanos

    What can I say? Clare from Blade creative has the unique ability to listen and then translate what you are thinking into a world class design. She has patience and an innate desire to see her end client happy with their final design. I have had my current logo designed by Clare and now she has just finished my new book cover design "Giving Spirt A Voice - The mechanics of mediumship". Clare you are a rockstar and an integral part of my "spirit team" - thank you from the bottom of my heart.

    Ioanna Serpanos ioannaserpanos.comes here

  • Kerryn Powell

    I have engaged Clare on several occasions over the past 7 years to work on my branding and help design my logo for my brand "Kerryn Powell", the chapter icons in my book and my event icons for my business "Your Time Matters". Clare is a good communicator, reliable, professional and easy to work with. Her creative ideas have added value to my business every time. Highly recommend you connect with her for branding and design work.

    Kerryn Powell kerryn-powell.com.au and yourtimematters.com.au

  • Sam Says

    I highly recommend Clare Blackstock of Blade Creative for all your graphic design needs. Clare has helped me for many years and her work is always creative, thoughtful and on brand.

    Sam McFarlane, Sam Says samsays.com.au

  • Nutrilotus

    Clare is an expert and extremely wonderful person to work with. She is very professional in her work and communication. I really appreciate her patience while dealing with a startup like us. I am really happy with my brand logo and packet designs, exactly what I was looking for. Highly recommend Blade creative for your designing requirements.

    Sandhya Dubey, Nutri Lotus nutrilotus.com.au

  • Pure n Cure

    We consider ourselves very lucky to have found Clare Blackstock (Blade Creative) as our brand and label designer. As a small Business there are various challenges however working with her was extremely smooth as her product and brand understanding is commendable. Moreover, she has a great EQ to understand and deliver exactly what you had in mind about ur brand. Her service is prompt and highly recommended.

    Pankaj Agarwal - Pure n Cure, purencure.com.au

  • YV Fresh

    I have been very impressed with Clare's professionalism in all her work and communication. She has a very good understanding of how SME's work and think, and I highly recommend her services.

    Stephen Pasin, General Manager, yvfresh.com.au

  • Rock the Shazbah

    Clare is patient and worked hard to find exactly what I was looking for. I am very happy with her work and recommend Blade without hesitation.

    Sharon Scull, Rock the Shazbah

  • Mescon

    It has been a pleasure to work with Clare to develop brochure and banner designs to take to our first trade show. Clare has been able to capture the essence of our software engineering company into eye catching and professional documents. She has ensured that there is a consistency in design, emphasising our core services, while still being able to highlight the specific product we will be promoting at the trade shows. The designs really capture who we are, and we thank you Clare for your patience, expertise and diligence to come up with such a great final product.

    Christine Pamflett, Mescon mescon.com.au

  • Justine Robbins

    Clare completed my company rebrand recently and she was fantastic. She spent the time to understand my business who we were, who we serviced and really captured our essence which then enabled her to create great concepts. She is easy to work with, professional and efficient. I would strongly recommend that you engage with her she's great.

    Justine Robbins - Justine Robbins Consulting, justinerobbins.com

  • Tru Safety

    Clare was able to understand my requirements for a fresh rebrand of my OHS consulting and auditing business from a sole trader to a company and expand on streams for quality and environmental consulting. Clare has a friendly and bubbly personality which makes the process seamless, and her ability to interpret my thoughts into concepts for logos, colours and styles was excellent. Highly recommended if you are growing or rebranding your business, or if you are starting from scratch!

    Karen Willis, TruSafety Solutions trusafetysolutions.com.au

  • Gaia Wholefoods

    Clare has been extremely wonderful to work with. She was very thorough with her customer brief and produced branding as if she was creating directly from my thoughts. I was happy with all options that were presented and a choice was made without any revisions needed. I have also worked with Clare updating an already existing brand to tie in with some new products about to be launched. She had no trouble seamlessly bringing my visions and instructions to life. I would highly recommend Clares' work and feel that her price is very reasonable for a highly skilled graphic designer.

    Linda Vantaggiato, founder, Gaia Wholefoods, gaiawholefoods.com.au

  • Cool Kidz Mealz

    It was great to work with Clare who has such expertise in her field. Clare has impeccable design taste and was also extremely thorough and detailed in her work. Her approach was fresh and dynamic and I am delighted with the final outcome. I feel privileged to have had Clare be the creative mind behind conceptualising the Cool Kidz' Mealz brand and will recommend Clare to anyone I know looking for a graphic designer. A massive thank you Clare.

    Lisa Norgate, founder, coolkidzmealz.com.au

  • Tempting Veg

    Developing our branding identity with Blade Creative has been a pleasurable and rewarding experience. The quality and detail of the work delivered was above and beyond our expectations. Clare has provided a professional service, from the initial design brief, through brand identity design and to the final comprehensive logo specification. At the beginning of the process, Clare took the time to clearly identify our brand personality and future goals so that her design work was a reflection of our company’s personality. We’re exceptionally happy with our bold and creative design. We highly recommend Blade Creative.

    Leah Pant, Founder, temptingveg.com

  • Think Bespoke

    Thanks Clare, I've really valued how you've approached the brand refresh with me. Your honesty and tenacity is exactly what I needed to help make this happen! I can not wait to roll the rest of the branding out over the coming weeks.

    Karen Hollenbach, Think Bespoke, thinkbespoke.com.au

  • Athletic HQ

    Clare it has been a pleasure to deal with you and helping me bring Athletic HQ to life. Your attention to detail and willingness to collaborate is really refreshing. I found there to be a healthy blend between delivering exactly what I was asking for whilst also mentoring me to make sensible and effective branding choices. Thanks for doing what you do best! Will be back again!

    Andrew Kormas, Athletic HQ

  • Software by Design

    Thank you Clare, It was fun to be taken through your process of coming up with a new logo. I was so relieved when I realized the key was to be colourful and Mobilo inspired. Having this symbol reminds me of what I want to achieve.

    Kirsten Greed, Software by Design, softwarebydesign.com.au

  • Bayside Collaborative

    We had the pleasure of working with Webby Web Design and Blade Creative for our business re-brand.

    From the initial meeting with Clare and Meirav, to the attentive service we received, to the finished product, we always knew we had made the right choice. Clare and Meirav worked together seamlessly and it was like dealing with one company. As a team, they discussed ideas with us to develop an overall branding strategy that could flow from print to our online presence that helps to build on and enhance our brand.

    I would highly recommend Clare and Meirav to anyone looking for the full suite of design work.

    You guys are the best!

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    Jane Libbis, Bayside Collaborative - www.baysidecollaborative.com.au

  • Waverley Meadows Netball Club

    Waverley Meadows Netball Club approached Clare at Blade Creative to raise the profile of our club within our local community. Clare takes the time to understand our club including our committee and players and provides exceptional marketing and branding advice.

    We receive fantastic feedback on our images and promotional material and we have no doubts in recommending Clare’s services to any business or not for profit organisation.

    Tim Jerram, President, Waverley Meadows Netball Club

    www.wmnc.com.au

  • Melbourne Diverse Cleaning Services

    Thank you so much for doing a fantastic job at creating my brand design, your work is amazing - my logo explains who I am, and what I do. I hope you don’t mind if I recommend you to my family and friends. You were a great help from the start, pointing me to the right direction. You’re a great person to work with Clare thank you for your understanding, kindness, loyalty and patience.

    Jacky Garas, Melbourne Diverse Cleaning Services

    www.mdcleaning.com.au

  • Stephen Read Landscape Design

    Faced with the difficult task of rebranding my landscape design business, I turned to Clare Blackstock at Blade Creative. Before starting work on my rebranding, Clare made sure she had a detailed understanding of my clients, their expections and the direction I was taking my business. I couldn’t be happier with the results. My branding hit the mark, and Clare continues to help me grow and hone my brand through print material as well as connecting me with a web designer and printing company. I can honestly say that the success I now have in my business started with the rebranding Blade Creative completed five years ago.

    Stephen Read Landscape Design www.stephenread.com.au

  • Bird in Hand

    It is pretty apparent what Clare’s defining factor is - intuition. She extracts every part of your heart and brand personality, injects it into your design, and then smashes it to the next level by adding a crazy, yet unassuming vibrancy.

    The only word that comes close to encapsulating one tenth of what I felt when opening the initial branding concepts is ‘enthrallment’. Clare’s work has this ability to instantly capture every part of your attention, shoot your mood through the roof and leave you slightly breathless.

    Having worked within the industry for some time, I can say that it is rare to come across someone with such a genuine, professional and experienced approach to design. I am sincerely blown away!

    Kathryne Panna, Bird in Hand Agency, view Kathryne's profile on LinkedIn

  • Laika Bar

    Clare has been an absolute dream to work with and I cannot thank her enough for both the quality of work and her professionalism. After two short meetings Clare was able to capture the ideas in my head and produce a draft for review. With a few minor edits thereafter, Clare presented me with the final artwork which I can only describe as “very classy” and exceeding my expectations. Thanks again Clare, stirling job!

    Karen Stach, laika.com.au

  • Alastair Merrill (photographer)

    Clare at Blade is amazing - she did the branding for my company (and everyone always comments on my brilliant logo), and in the process helped me to better understand my own business. Her insight and acumen enable her to get to the heart of what your business is about, what it needs to say, and how best to reach out to the right customers. Even though she's on the other side of the world to me (I'm in the UK), the distance was no obstacle to her delivering a supportive service and quick results.

    Alastair Merrill, alastairmerrill.com

  • Melanie Sheppard

    My personal site is the second project in which I have enlisted the services of Webby Web Design and Blade Creative. Initially, together they created my online business, The Slipper Hub. This was an enormous job as we were branding and building a business from scratch. It has been an enormous success. For the Melanie Sheppard site, I needed an online presence for my published writing and whilst I was very clear about what I didn’t want, I really had no idea of where to start. Clare listened to my ideas and key words, then pulled together something that very much represented how I wanted my brand to look and feel. Meirav then unpacked the mechanics ensuring that the sight was slick, but user friendly for both myself and my readers. These girls work beautifully together fulfilling the brief and beyond. Timelines are met and their service is of a high standard. Apart from this, they are just both lovely people to work with and I look forward to our next project.

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    Melanie Sheppard, melaniesheppard.com.au

  • AWC Accountants Who Communicate

    Clare you ARE amazing. Since the day we sat down and discussed the Baybridge Consultants branding brief, you made me feel at ease, your expertise was immediately obvious, leaving me having complete trust and confidence. The initial concept designs, left me teary eyed – you had nailed the brief. Thanks to you, Baybridge Consultants has been given a visual identity that reflects our culture.

    There is so much to thank you for, I know you have invested so much of yourself in the process, mostly I thank you for making this experience exciting, fun and truly stress free. I have no hesitation in recommending Blade Creative to other business owners about to embark on the business branding process.

    Bridgette Triandafilidis, awcaccountants.com.au

    Note: the Baybridge Consultants brand was designed in 2013. In 2016 they needed to change their name to AWC Accountants, the associated brand design refresh was carried out by Blade Creative too.

  • RAWBS

    Clare had some great ideas right away and I loved the concepts she delivered. She's very responsive and intuitive and I'm very happy to recommend Blade Creative.

    Julie Segal, RAWBS.com.au

  • Eve's Better Bake

    Clare Blackstock from Blade Creative has been providing Graphic Design work for our start-up company for approximately the last 6 months. We have required graphic design work in a number of different areas including company logo, email signatures, website, brochures, large banners for expos and packaging design for our food products. Every time Clare has produced new work for us, we have been highly impressed with the exceptional standard. Her design work is dynamic, fresh, eye catching and stays true to our branding.

    Clare is reliable, communicative, flexible and fantastic to deal with. We are looking forward to our continued relationship with Blade Creative as we grow our company.

    I would have no hesitation in recommending Blade Creative to any company who is looking for outstanding graphic design.

    Eve Kelly, evesbetterbake.com.au

  • SwimRight

    I really enjoyed working with Clare to re-brand our business, it was a true collaboration that resulted in a brilliant solution. I had lots of ideas but didn’t know how to bring them together. Clare had great vision and demonstrated a real talent for creating a concept that truly represented our business. She was adaptable, responsive and innovative. The result is fantastic face for our business that will grow and evolve with us for many years to come.

    Brenton Hockley, swimright.com.au

  • Prudence's Pantry

    The thought of designing a brand which captured the essence of my business seemed daunting from the outset. However, Clare’s careful questioning, insightful probing, inherent intuition and raw creativity made the whole process so simple and straightforward. The end product exceeded my expectations and I’m so proud of my brand and what Clare created based on a few ideas and simple concepts.

    Rebekah Davidson, prudencespantry.com.au

  • Fit and Well Osteo

    Clare from Blade Creative was recommended to me by a friend and what a gift that turned out to be. Clare is a great listener, very intuitive and her process is very thorough. Clare was able to take all my thoughts and ideas and meld them seamlessly into a logo and brand design that I absolutely love! It makes me smile every time I look at it and I have had so many people comment favourably on it.

    Working with Clare was a breeze. She is a great communicator, is very efficient with her time and nothing was too much trouble.

    I can’t recommend Clare and Blade Creative highly enough. Almost tempted to start another business just to go through the process again!

    Katrina Caine, fitandwellosteo.com.au

  • MG Gardens

    Clare did a wonderful job putting together logo concepts for MG Gardens. She didn't make it easy to choose! Highly recommend her services to anyone. Loving the new logo.

    Via Google reviews

    mggardens.com.au

  • Fearnley Consulting

    Clare is a very highly skilled designer who took my very bare company business card requirements and turned them into a fabulous and often complimented logo, together with colour schemes and company profile which eventually went through to my web site. Clare was very patient and understanding of my requirements and was able to produce something beyond my expectations.

    I would have no hesitation in recommending Clare for future work.

    Elaine Fearnley, fearnleyconsulting.com.au

  • Dance off Challenge

    Clare Blackstock from Blade has made the challenge of starting up a new business so much easier than anticipated. She has a wealth of experience behind her and offered great advice every step of the way. She really listened to all of our ideas and came up with very creative concepts that followed our vision. She was able to give us the starting blocks when we weren't really sure what we wanted and then gave us enough options that we could clearly see the direction we wanted to take. She was really quick to complete all of our projects and we love the enthusiasm and energy that she brings to everything that she does. We are looking forward to a long working relationship with Blade.

    Susan Loucas, danceoffchallenge.com.au

  • Kiss to Sell

    I started working with Blade to help me with my business logo. When I was thinking about KISS to Sell, Clare was the 1st person that I thought to call. She listens well and worked with me to adapt and adopt my concept; and to present it in a visual format. She is fun to work with … and the results speak for themselves. I am thrilled with how quickly this was developed and with all the positive feedback I have had on the fresh & informative design. I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend Clare to others, and already have! Thanks Clare.

    Frances Pratt, kisstosell.com.au

  • Alfalfa Social Media

    Clare recently designed a set of logos for my business, Alfalfa Social Media.

    Clare's approach was very thorough and professional and made me consider aspects of my logo design that I had not considered. Clare took a lot of time in the concept stage to make sure that she was well across the look and feel that I was hoping to achieve.

    The finished product is fantastic and I have had a number of compliments on my logo and business cards.

    I would not hesitate to recommend Clare for anyone looking for clean, modern design work.

    Stacey Murray, alfalfasocial.com.au

  • Wyldecard

    I met Clare at a Business Networking session and I liked the honest approach to her design work. So, when it came to working on a logo for my business that honesty and clarity about what worked and what didn’t made the whole daunting process much easier to manage. It was also reassuring that the package I chose let me make changes and tweaks to the design without crashing the budget. I am thrilled with the results. Thanks Clare!

    Loretta Wylde, wyldecard.com