Build a brand
worth belonging to.

Build a brand
worth belonging to.

Feeling invisible to your customers?
Feeling like you're screaming into the void?
Feel like your brand is running on chaos & caffeine?
Let's fix that.

Feeling invisible to your customers?
Feeling like you're screaming into the void?
Feel like your brand is running on chaos & caffeine?
Let's fix that.

Building scalable, energetic brand experiences for for entertainment, media, and tech companies

Book a discovery call

Build a brand
worth belonging to.

Find what’s true.
Give it a spine.
Build the world.

Find what’s true.
Give it a spine.
Build the world.

Turning invisible brands into head-turners.

Bring order to the chaos with a strategic brand identity designed to bring out your truth, build community, and scale with you, without the guesswork.

Turning invisible brands into head-turners.

Bring order to the chaos with a strategic brand identity designed to bring out your truth, build community, and scale with you, without the guesswork.

Brands I've helped

A brand system built to scale through global growth

A creative studio tripled headcount and launched two new global offices. The brand needed to hold up everywhere, across new offices, new hires, and new markets, without losing consistency or control.

Visual Identity
Brand Governance

Establishing authority in a competitive market

A luxury leader in hospitality needed a brand new identity for its Art of Luxury Leadership programme that matched its standing as a global authority in luxury education.

Visual Identity
Brand Activation

A brand system built to scale through global growth

A creative studio tripled headcount and launched two new global offices. The brand needed to hold up everywhere, across new offices, new hires, and new markets, without losing consistency or control.

Visual Identity
Brand Governance

Creating a brand to earn trust in one of the most complex markets

Translating "fast-track to profitability" into a culturally-resonant visual system, from monogram and colour strategy through to a flexible graphic language built to scale across formats.

Visual Identity

A brand system built to scale through global growth

A creative studio tripled headcount and launched two new global offices. The brand needed to hold up everywhere, across new offices, new hires, and new markets, without losing consistency or control.

Visual Identity
Brand Governance

A brand system built to scale through global growth

A creative studio tripled headcount and launched two new global offices. The brand needed to hold up everywhere, across new offices, new hires, and new markets, without losing consistency or control.

Visual Identity
Brand Governance

A brand system built to scale through global growth

A creative studio tripled headcount and launched two new global offices. The brand needed to hold up everywhere, across new offices, new hires, and new markets, without losing consistency or control.

Visual Identity
Brand Governance

Establishing authority in a competitive market

A luxury leader in hospitality needed a brand new identity for its Art of Luxury Leadership programme that matched its standing as a global authority in luxury education.

Visual Identity
Brand Activation

A brand system built to scale through global growth

A creative studio tripled headcount and launched two new global offices. The brand needed to hold up everywhere, across new offices, new hires, and new markets, without losing consistency or control.

Visual Identity
Brand Governance

Creating a brand to earn trust in one of the most complex markets

Translating "fast-track to profitability" into a culturally-resonant visual system, from monogram and colour strategy through to a flexible graphic language built to scale across formats.

Visual Identity

A brand system built to scale through global growth

A creative studio tripled headcount and launched two new global offices. The brand needed to hold up everywhere, across new offices, new hires, and new markets, without losing consistency or control.

Visual Identity
Brand Governance

A brand system built to scale through global growth

A creative studio tripled headcount and launched two new global offices. The brand needed to hold up everywhere, across new offices, new hires, and new markets, without losing consistency or control.

Visual Identity
Brand Governance

Services

Getting started

Basic Identity

Foundations to get you moving in the right direction.

• Brand Audit
• Primary & submark logo design
• Color palette selection
• Typography selection
• 1 Page Brand Kit

1 week - Starting from £1.5k
Most Popular

Full Brand

Time to take your brand to the next level?

• Brand audit
• Competitor analysis
• Stakeholder Interviews
• Brand strategy
• Brand concept & positioning
• Naming
• Creative direction

• Primary, submark & alternate logo variations
• Color palette selection
• Typography selection
• Brand graphic device
• Brand pattern
• Extended brand guidelines

• Business card & stationery design
• Social media profile & cover templates
• Shareable brand presentation deck

4 weeks - Starting at £4.5k
Creative when you need it

Brand Experience

Brand aligned creative services

Want to inject some zest into your brand experience, I offer a range of services for brands with solid foundations, Including:

• Brand Activation Campaigns
• Brand Extensions & Systemisation
• Illustration
• Social Media
• Marketing Materials
• Motion
• AI fix-ups for when AI just doesn't "get it"
• White Label

Projects scoped and quoted on a project or fractional basis. I also offer ongoing design support retainers:
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Happy Collaborators

  • Crystal has a brilliant understanding of brand identity which she has applied to the branding of Jellyfish as a company and to our individual productions. Highly recommended!

    Tom Brass

    Director, Jellyfish Pictures

  • If you're looking to give your company a professional brand then Crystal is the one you want pulling it all together and releasing out into the world.

    Edward Smith

    Business Development Manager, RD Studios

  • Crystal brings a rare combination of thoughtfulness, curiosity, and genuine advocacy. She's someone who elevates the room, creatively and culturally. I’d happily work with her again.

    Simon Devereux

    Director of Talent Development, Framestore

About olo bottega

About olo bottega

Olo bottega helps vision-led founders turn the strange, specific, emotionally charged truth of their work into brands people can understand, remember, trust, and belong to.

Working with household names, start-ups and SMEs. We've spent over a decade working across B2C, B2B and B2B2C, in EdTech, media, creator and IP driven industries.

Olo bottega was built for the brands that have real passion behind them and need help articulating what they do, and more importantly, why they do it.

Olo bottega helps vision-led founders turn the strange, specific, emotionally charged truth of their work into brands people can understand, remember, trust, and belong to.

Working with household names, start-ups and SMEs. We've spent over a decade working across B2C, B2B and B2B2C, in EdTech, media, creator and IP driven industries.

Olo bottega was built for the brands that have real passion behind them and need help articulating what they do, and more importantly, why they do it.

The Swallow’s Nest

The Swallow’s Nest

Worldbuilding notes for founders who refuse to blend in.

No spam, just strategic insights and lessons sent once a quarter.

Ready to build a brand
worth belonging to?

Let's create a branded world that attracts the right people, the ones who will stay with you for the long haul.