Rhea Castell

Independent brand designer in Sheffield. I make identities for bakeries, festivals, record labels and other places people actually love.

Booking projects from February 2027

Selected work, 2023 to 2026

2026

Flock Festival

Identity, posters, wayfinding

A three day folk festival that wanted to look less like a festival. Birds, because the park is full of them at dawn.

2025

Hive Bakery

Identity, packaging, shop sign

Honeycomb pattern printed on every bag, so the bags became the advert. They sell out by noon now.

2025

Kettle Records

Label identity, 14 sleeves

A tiny label run from a terraced house in Walkley. Pink, because nobody else in the record shop is.

2024

Northside Climbing

Identity, wall graphics, app icons

Hold colours became the brand colours, so the grading system and the logo are the same thing.

2024

Lumen Opticians

Identity, interiors, print

Concentric rings from an eye test chart. Calm and quiet, for a shop people often visit nervous.

2023

Moss & Mortar

Identity and website

An architects that only works on old buildings. The mark is built from the floor plans of their first project.

How a project goes

Rhea drawing on a tablet at her desk
1

Walk round together

I come and see the place, the people and the thing you sell. Most of the ideas start here.

2

Three routes

Three different directions on big printed boards, never on a screen. You pick one, or bits of two.

3

Make it real

We test it on the actual sign, bag or poster before anything is finished.

4

Hand it over

Every file, every font licence, and an hour teaching whoever will use it day to day.

Services and rates

Brand identity

from £4,800

Name check, logo, type, colour and a guidelines PDF your printer will actually read. Six to ten weeks.

Packaging and print

from £1,900

Labels, bags, boxes, menus. I sort the printer and go to the press check.

Signage and wayfinding

quoted

Shop fronts, festival sites and interiors, drawn to scale and made locally.

Day rate

£520

For agencies and studios who need an extra pair of hands on an identity.

Rhea standing at her studio desk among print samples

Rhea grew up in Rotherham, studied graphic design at Sheffield Hallam, and spent seven years at a branding agency in Manchester before going on her own in 2022. Her studio is above a cutlery works in Kelham Island.

“Rhea spent a whole morning in the bakery before she drew anything. The honeycomb idea came from watching us stack the trays.”

Lou Bramall

Owner, Hive Bakery

“The posters went up in March and people were photographing them on lampposts. Ticket sales were up 40% on last year.”

Sanjay Mistry

Director, Flock Festival

Sheffield city centre seen from the hillside at Sheaf Valley Park

Got something people should love? Tell me about it.