Sarah Butler
London UK



Sarah is a multidisciplinary designer exploring the creative landscape with clarity, craft and curiosity. With expertise across visual identity, brand systems, and campaigns. Blending strategy, purpose and art direction. She builds intentional, expressive brand systems and campaigns that work at every scale. A northerner that moved to the south to explore her curiosity for design, but never lost her soft spot for chips, cheese and gravy.


Contact:
LinkedIn

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+44 (0) 7472783909
Clients:
Adidas
Optrex
Disney
Dr Martens
Tony Chocolonely
Porsche
Asahi
Vanish
Asda
Durex
Aunt Bessie’s


Services:

Branding
Art Direction
Editorial
Motion Graphics 
Conceptual Design





Selected Work ⊹ ࣪ ˖





Tony’s Open ChainTony's Open Chain exists to change the cocoa industry by making exploitation-free cocoa the norm. As designer and art director, I helped shape a visual identity that is designed to create noise, the identity drew inspiration from bold headlines to bring front-page urgency to the industry's biggest challenges. Rooted in Tony's journalistic heritage and the rich colours and culture of West Africa, it celebrated the people driving real change across the supply chain.

The visual system reflected the mission to forge a new path for the industry, reinforcing its commitment to openness, transparency and collaboration. Inviting the entire industry to join the movement for change.
Branding
Visual Identity



Nothing Gets You CloserNothing Gets You Closer was a campaign for Disney Cruise Line that transformed the brand's iconic porthole windows into portals to Disney magic. Borrowing the familiar design language of the ships, the campaign brought larger-than-life character moments into everyday commuter spaces, turning the mundane into something more magical.

Each porthole framed a beloved Disney character, capturing their unique personality as they peeked through with playful curiosity. Designed to spark joy and anticipation, the simple yet distinctive visual system invited audiences to get closer to the characters they love and offered a glimpse of the unforgettable experiences waiting onboard.
Campaign Art Direction



Visit England
A bold new identity for VisitEngland, celebrating a nation that refuses to ever be just one thing. While our national flower may be the Tudor Rose, how can one flower represent a country as multidimensional as England?

Inspired by the distinct character of England’s counties, the identity draws on each region’s signature flower, each a cultural marker of where it’s from and where it’s going. Their individual petals come together to form a single, unified bloom.

It’s a vibrant, flexible identity that champions England in all its beautiful contradictions. Giving every county a platform to shine while celebrating the diversity and collective character of the entire Garden of England.
Branding
Visual Identity (Ongoing)



The Real Self Checkout
What if a Self Checkout could save you more than just 5 minutes at the end of your weekly shop? As part of ASDA’s long standing partnership with Coppafeel and Breast Cancer Now, supermarket checkouts started telling you how to do a real one.

We borrowed from the habitual language of shopping, and created a playful yet disruptive identity designed to open up conversations around breast checking and drive behaviour change. At its heart sits our ‘Bracode’, a campaign graphic that transforms the familiar barcode into a powerful visual reminder to check yourself.

The wider system disrupts everyday shopping moments with playful meaningful messaging. Bringing design, language and experience together around one simple behaviour: making checking your boobs a habit.
Campaign
Visual Identity
Creative Direction

Awards:

Creative Circle Awards
British Arrows



Tango Squad Badges
For the launch of the Adidas Tango Squad app, I created a series of badges designed to reward players as they completed different football challenges.

Working from just a challenge name, I developed a unique visual identity for each badge, with three levels of progression that evolved from grey into bold colour as players advanced.

The badges created a playful and distinctive system that brought a sense of personality, progression and reward to the app experience.
Illustration
Art Direction



Be Abit More Morning
You're either a morning person, or you're not. Optrex wanted to jump on this human insight with a bold disruptive campaign to introduce people to Optrex for tired eyes. The campaign was aimed to break the apathy barrier get people who struggle to function in the mornings to ‘be a bit more morning’ by introducing Optrex into their routine.

Throughout the campaign I focused on the contrasted feeling of tired eyes vs the refreshed Optrex eye. This allowed me to introduce big and bold eye icons as well as a bright and bold yet contrasting colour palette, to create a playful, eye stopping campaign.
Campaign
Art Direction
Illustration



Tough As YouTough As You is a global Dr. Martens campaign celebrating people who overcome setbacks, push forward and do things their own way.

A raw, tactile visual identity rooted in the rebellious spirit of the brand. Everything was designed to feel handmade and imperfect. From a physically distressed logo and textures created using the iconic 1460 boot, to redscale photography that reflected the idea of forging your own path.

The result was a bold and ownable identity spanning OOH, print and digital, bringing together photography, typography, texture and lo-fi animation to create something unmistakably Dr. Martens.
Campaign Art Direction



The Offcuts
A range of concepts, unused routes and other pieces of work. Ideas and designs that didn’t always make the final cut, but felt too good to leave behind.

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