Paul is a truly outstanding Design Manager and has been an essential part of our extended team for many years. He’s highly adept at so many different areas of design that he’s the first person we ring when we know what we want to achieve, but not necessarily how best to get there (as he will!). He’s incredibly clever, he really is.

Paul finds technical solutions to creative problems and he calmly and reliably manages a huge and varied workload that includes the creation of video assets, 3D product and sculpt rendering, magazine layouts, factory briefing specifications, packaging solutions and so much more. It’s not an exaggeration to say that we’d have been extremely stuck without him at multiple points in the last decade and are extremely lucky to know him.

Paul is both inventive and completely reliable – one of those rare people you can leave to get on with something, knowing that the results will be better than you’d ever imagined.

I highly recommend Paul Southcombe as a freelance designer/manager. I’ve been lucky to have worked with Paul for several years now producing many design projects over a huge variety of licenses which include the BBC, Warner Bros, The Beatles and Star Trek.

Paul is highly motivated and always delivers on time and schedule whilst still maintaining high levels of creativity, no job is too big or too small. He is always flexible and willing to work on any project that is assigned to him no matter how complexed. Paul would be a tremendous asset to any company and comes highly recommended.

Working with Paul has been a joy. He is always very responsive, quick to come up with interesting and attractive solutions, professional and diligent. I would recommend him highly to anyone looking for freelance creative design support.

Paul was recommended to me by a senior editor as the best designer she’d ever worked with, and I totally agree. He’s 100% reliable, thorough and quick, and came up with some beautiful and original design ideas for the two art catalogues he created for me. His fresh use of space and colour is exceptional. He’s also calm and patient, making him a pleasure to work with.