Ellie Sage
b.2002

I'm an interdisciplinary freelance Graphic Designer and Illustrator from the West Country. I specialise in both analogue and digital publication and print, often grounded in tactile processes and physical experimentation. Thematically, I’m drawn to ideas around identity, heritage and ruralism, pulling from both personal experience and wider narratives.


Experience

2026-Present   Forgeworks Architects
2026-Present   Giant Peach Agency
2024-Present   Fisherton Mill Gallery


Education

2021-25


2020-21
BA (Hons) Graphic Communication Design, Central Saint Martins

Foundation Diploma in Art & Design, Arts University Bournemouth

Shows
           
2026
2025
2023
2023
 Fisherton Mill Gallery Shop, Salisbury
Central Saint Martins Showcase, London
Pagemasters, London
Kings Cross Illustration Fair, London


Awards

People’s Choice, BEAF Festival ‘20


 
01 The Things You Know Make You Go

A handmade photobook about my Great-Grandfather, Roy, documenting intergenerational memory, identity and absence, whilst challenging the conventional archive and the historical and social value of preserving loss and legacy through materiality.

Read morePhotobook
2025

02 Forgeworks

Working on a part-time, freelance retainer basis with Forgeworks Architects, producing marketing material, communications & graphic design.

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Marketing/Design
2026

03 Rani

Branding for a speculative and collaborative University project, seeking to solve the growing issue of polluted water surrounding fast-fashion factories, whilst facilitating traditional Bangladeshi woven craft workshops and recycling saris to create water filters.

Read moreTypography/Logo
2023

04 Perfect English Gentleman

Spreads from the adjoining dissertation for ‘The Things You Know Make You Go’. Typeset and designed as a deconstructed replica of my Great-Grandfather Roy’s bible.

Read moreTypesetting/
Writing
2025


05 Answer Overflow
 
Remote logo design and ongoing design support for San Francisco-based developer Rhys Sullivan, seeking to index search on Discord.

Read moreLogo 
2022


06 Two Tribes Brewery x Central Saint Martins

Re-designing the Two Tribes custom lager for Central Saint Martins’ student bar to showcase the University's identity and student spirit.

Read moreIllustration
2023

07 Boxguy

Response to a University brief which asked us to react to ‘The Box’. In 6 illustrated pages, it explores the life of a man with a changing perspective, inspired by the books ‘Flatland’ by Edwin Abbott Abbott and ‘The Box Man’ by Kōbō Abe.

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Publication
2023


08 Gravity* Resistance* Magnetism*

An A3 RISO-printed poster made in response to a University brief; to make an educational piece about science, making the invisible forces visible.

Read moreIllustration/Print
2021

09 Input

Designing a set of instructions that teach an audience how to ‘build’ an allocated typeface.

Read moreIllustration
2021
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