(PORTFOLIO ©2026) INDEPENDENT BRAND DESIGNER
Available from January 2027
BASED IN HALDEN · WORKING WORLDWIDE
Nora
Taking 2 projects for 2027
Identity · Web · Packaging
Vale.
Brand designer for founders who care how things look in ten years, not ten days. Twelve years, 90+ identities, one person you talk to.
Available from January 2027
Nora
Vale.
Taking 2 projects for 2027
Identity · Web · Packaging
Brand designer for founders who care how things look in ten years, not ten days.
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About me
I design brand
systems that
outlive their
launch.
Before going independent I spent eight years leading identity work at two agencies. Now I take on four projects a year and do every one myself.
Before going independent I spent eight years leading identity work at two agencies. Now I take on four projects a year and do every one myself.
Brand strategy
Identity systems
Type design
Framer
Packaging
Studio 04, Halden Works — where the proofs get pinned to the wall.
(01)
About me
I design brand
systems that outlive
their launch.
Before going independent I spent eight years leading identity work at two agencies. Now I take on four projects a year and do every one myself — strategy, design, and the files your developers will actually open.
I like small teams, honest briefs and type that does the heavy lifting. If you want twenty logo options by Friday, I am not your designer. If you want one that still works in 2036, let’s talk.
Brand strategy
Identity systems
Type design
Framer
Packaging
Art direction
Nora Vale
— Founder, Merko
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Selected work
Ninety-two identities.
Here are six.
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Selected work
Ninety-two
identities. Here
are six.
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Services
Three ways to
work together.
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Services
Three ways to work
together.
Identity sprint
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Identity sprint
Strategy workshop, one identity direction refined to a full system, and a 40-page guideline.
Strategy workshop and one identity direction refined to a full system.
Identity + website
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Identity + website
Everything in the sprint, plus a Framer site of up to eight pages with a CMS your team can edit.
The sprint plus a Framer site of up to eight pages with a CMS.
Design partner
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Design partner
A fixed number of days each month for packaging, campaigns and the things that come up.
A fixed number of days each month for whatever comes up.
“
“
Nora asked better
questions in one
afternoon than our last
agency did in six
months.
Nora asked better questions in one afternoon
than our last agency did in six months. The
identity she built is the reason our investors
remember us.
Daniel Okafor
Daniel Okafor
Co-founder, Kestrel Audio
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Let’s talk
Have a
project in
mind? Let’s
talk.
Have a project in mind? Let’s
talk.
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(05) Utility