I’ve been a graphic designer for over 20 years and a foreign language typesetter since 2005, so a lot of my design work is for clients who need their brand to work in more than one language.
Logo Transliteration
If your logo contains text, I can have the translation of that text formatted and built into your logo design. Because of my background in graphic design, the final logo keeps the structure, weight and style of your original, so it still looks like the same brand in the other language.
Some scripts make this harder than others. Arabic and Chinese letters don’t have direct equivalents of Latin letters, so the job is to find shapes that carry the same feel. You can read about a bilingual English and Arabic logo I designed where I built the Arabic from pieces of the Latin letters.
Multilingual Brand Adaptation
If you already have a brand and you’re expanding into other languages, I can help it carry over. That means choosing typefaces that pair well across scripts, working out how the logo should sit in right-to-left layouts, and planning for taglines that get longer in translation.
Logos, Stationery and Websites
I also do everyday design work, including logos, stationery, signage, advertising and websites. I work in Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign and After Effects, and I build websites in WordPress. You’ll get the source files at the end of the project. Some of my recent work is on the portfolio page.
If there’s any chance your design will need to exist in another language, I’ll tell you at the sketch stage so it doesn’t become a problem later.
