Martha is an award-winning designer, visual communicator, and illustrator with experience in marketing, packaging, and storytelling.
Based in Leamington Spa, her 9-5 is in design & innovation packaging projects for DS Smith, working with household brands such as Cadburys, Nestle and M&S, to develop innovative structural and graphic packaging concepts.
Whilst her experience lies in design, her passion is in sustainable marketing, and in 2025, completed an 8 week course in the subject with the Cambridge institute for Sustainability Leadership.
Outside of her corporate career she is an experienced illustrator. Crafting identities for regenerative food initiatives, her work translates complex ideas into accessible, engaging narratives.
Selected collaborations include: Groundschool and Groundswell, on going work for the Con podcast, and the Vegan Organic Network.
Since graduating with a First in BA Product Design and Craft from Manchester Metropolitan University in 2023, she brings a strong sense of play, material curiosity, and narrative thinking to everything she creates. Her ceramic work has been in highly significant national exhibitions, and her project Regenerative Appetite was award winning.
Whether developing branding and marketing strategy, sustainable packaging solutions, or building illustration narratives that champion a better food system, Martha is driven by purpose and imagination.
She uses design as a tool to connect people and ideas with impact.
Photo by Jenny Harper 2023
Exhibitions and Awards
Awards
Design Breakthrough - Highly Commended
Issued by Manchester School of Art · Jun 2023
New Designers - Creative Conscience Ethical Designers Award
Issued by Creative Conscience at New Designers · Jun 2023
Issued by Manchester School of Art · Jun 2023
New Designers - Creative Conscience Ethical Designers Award
Issued by Creative Conscience at New Designers · Jun 2023
2025
Made in the Middle, (touring exhibition), the Midlands - January 2025 - April 2026, (group)
MMU Alumni talk to students on graduating and navigating life after university (October 2025)
Judge at New Designers week 2 (on behalf of DS Smith).
2024
Regenerative Appetite, The Mill by Graffwerk, Leicester - 10th Feb-19th April (group)
In:site by Craftspace, delivering and engagement project in Cathedral Square, Birmingham - 21st – 24th May 2024
Artist in Residence at Groundswell Festival - 25th-27th June
Talk delivered to Elizabeth Garrett Anderson School in conjunction with Green Grads (May 2024)
Judge at New Designers week 1 (on behalf of Creative Conscience)
2023
Regenerative Appetite, SEESAW (solo)
Envirolution Festival, Plattfields Market Garden (group)
Benzie Vertical gallery (group) June - October
Next Message, Manchester school of art (group)
New Designers, 28 June – 1 July 2023, New Islington design centre (group)
Bluecoat Gallery, Emerging Maker Exhibition, 31st August - 14 October, Bluecoat Display Centre, 50-51 College Ln, Liverpool L1 3BZ (group)
Green Grads, 16-18th September, Heals 196 Tottenham Court Rd, (group)
British Ceramics Biennial (Fresh), 23rd September - 5th November, All Saints Church Stoke on Trent (group)
Habitat X New Designers cards, in selected Sainsburys stores from 2nd October 2023
Great Northern Contemporary Craft Fair 18-22nd October 2023
Photograph by New Designers 2023