Freelance Design Director · Amsterdam · Working Worldwide
Your brand, message, and vision, made clear, made real, made to work.
Who's behind all of this?
One person, fully invested. No hand-offs. No guessing games. Just Jason Mills, working directly with founders, teams, and leaders who need someone who'll push back, dig deeper, and turn the complicated into the compelling.
After 25 years across branding, communications, and design, I've learned something most clients don't expect to hear: what you think you need and what you actually need are often two different things. My job is to close that gap.
I bring design direction and professional coaching to every project, which means I'm as focused on your thinking and strategy as I am on the final output. The result is work that goes deeper, lands harder, and holds up longer.
I work with a small number of clients at any time, because full attention isn't something you can fake.
BRANDING & STRATEGY
You can't design your way out of a positioning problem. Before we touch a logo or color palette, we get clear on who you are, who you're for, and what makes you worth choosing. Then we build the visual and verbal identity that makes that true at every touchpoint.
Naming · Visual Identity · Brand Guidelines · Messaging Strategy · Storytelling
COMMUNICATIONS & DESIGN
From your website to your annual report to the deck you're presenting next Tuesday, I design communications that do their job. Clear, considered, and built for the people who actually need to receive them.
Websites · UX/UI · Print & Digital Publications · Reports · Social Media · Mailers
PITCH & PRESENTATION
A great idea in a bad deck doesn't get funded. A powerful message buried in a cluttered slide doesn't move people. I work with founders and leadership teams to structure, shape, and design presentations that do what they're supposed to do, persuade, inspire, and stick.
Investor Decks · Company Presentations · Employee Engagement · Video · Events
THINKING DIFFERENTLY
There's a whole other world I live in over at The Belong Project, a coaching practice built around belonging, neurodivergent thinking, and designing the life you actually want. If you're less interested in a branding project and more interested in a thinking partner for your work or your life, that's where you'll want to go.
PAST & PRESENT CLIENTS
