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Even after doing it for 20 years, I still get a buzz when I have a new creative brief to think about.

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Sarah Napier

Sarah Napier is a graphic designer specialising in brand design, environmental graphics, signage, and wayfinding. Sarah has lived and worked in Melbourne, London, Treviso (Italy), and Amsterdam, and brings an international flavor to her work. Sarah once founded, created, lived and breathed an indie granola brand called Granola for Gangsters – what started as a side hustle took over her life for four years and saw her doing everything from brand concept and roll-out to literally being up to her elbows in nuts and seeds and delivering the goods by bicycle all over Amsterdam.

What do you love about design?

Even after doing it for 20 years, I still get a buzz when I have a new creative brief to think about.

Why do you teach?

It feels good to share some of the knowledge I have acquired over the years. Plus I get a creative kickback that inspires my own work.

Tell us about your design career outside of Shillington.

Graphic design has taken me far and wide, from studying and cutting my teeth in Melbourne, to design studios in London, Fabrica in Italy and then on to the Amsterdam design scene. My work is as eclectic as the places in which it has been created.

What or who are you loving right now?

Not new, but new to me: Studio Frith—the award-winning, London-based studio of Frith Kerr. I’m loving their artful branding and typographic prowess.

If you were a typeface, what would you be?

Depends on the brief: whether it’s for Sarah the designer, Sarah the mother or the Sarah of my imagination.

What’s your favourite blog?

It’s Nice That.

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