About Me
About me
I’m Matthew Murphy — a multidisciplinary designer and filmmaker with over a decade of experience creating brands, visual systems, and story-led content across sectors including health, culture, sport, and independent business.
My work spans brand identity, web design, creative direction, film production, photography, and public engagement projects, with a focus on designing experiences that are both visually strong and human-centred. I’m particularly interested in the relationship between identity and impact — how thoughtful design can build trust, create relevance, and help organisations connect more meaningfully with the people they serve.
I’ve worked with charities, institutions, and small businesses to develop projects that are as strategic as they are expressive — whether that’s rebranding a heritage sports team, designing a public health installation, or helping local businesses grow through smart branding and digital tools.
I value collaboration, curiosity, and integrity — and I bring those qualities into every project I take on.
Additionally
My thirties reshaped not just how I work, but why I work.
What began as a career in design and storytelling eventually led me into something deeper — the realisation that the most meaningful creative work doesn’t come from software, strategy, or aesthetics, but from understanding people. I spent years exploring that idea properly: studying psychology, training to Level 3 in counselling skills, and learning how emotional intelligence, communication, and self-awareness sit at the core of every good relationship — including the working ones.
That shift changed everything. It taught me how to listen before I design. How to understand the need behind the brief. How to build work that connects not just visually, but humanly.
I still do the same things — branding, film, digital, storytelling — but now they’re informed by something stronger: an interest in the inner world as much as the outer one. The work is clearer, kinder, more intentional. And the relationships around it — with clients, collaborators, and myself — matter just as much as the final output.
Collaborators
