Helen Plumtree
Account Director
‘The only constant in life is change’ – Greek philosopher Heraclitus
And that’s why I love what I do – everything changes, nothing stands still, every day is different, every client is different.
For more than 20 years, I’ve worked in the design industry for a broad range of clients across sport and leisure, FMCG, healthcare and utilities – on both agency and client sides. There’s nothing more rewarding than taking a brief, identifying the challenge or opportunity, discussing ideas with the team and presenting a great creative solution to excite a client and deliver effective results for them.
Outside of work, I love to be outdoors either walking in the woods, or playing tennis. When I’m indoors, you’ll either find me cooking in the kitchen or relaxing at a soundbath meditation. I also love nothing than more hopping on a plane and exploring other countries, learning about their cultures and sampling different food to get recipe ideas to try back home!
Latest Projects
A refreshed school magazine design that connects with staff, parents and students of all ages, combining energy and structure to appeal to a broad school community.
Abbey Gate College
School magazine design
This FMCG packaging design project formed a crucial part of the ecommerce-led launch of the UK’s first low-carb sourdough range
Robert Andrew
FMCG packaging design
This food ecommerce website design project formed a central part of the launch of a completely new idea in the market, the UK’s first low-carb sourdough range.
Robert Andrew
Food ecommerce website design
A brand launch and marketing strategy designed to build credibility, maximise visibility and accelerate growth from the start.
Robert Andrew
Brand launch and marketing strategy
This medical device animation has the polished, refined feel of a premium product, using intricate 3D modelling and realistic sound effects and lighting to showcase its features effectively.
H&T Presspart
Medical device animation
Based on the concept of inviting someone you know to join you at something special, +1 was an award-winning global employee referral campaign to increase engagement in AstraZeneca’s Global Employee Referral Programme.
AstraZeneca
Global employee referral campaign
A strategic brand refresh to reposition H&T Presspart in the marketplace, from device manufacturer to solutions provider.
H&T Presspart
Branding strategy & development
Taking a fresh, creative approach to better align Alliance Manchester Business School’s visual identity with its well-established brand essence, “Original Thinking Applied”.
AMBS
Identity development and application
The fourth time we’ve collaborated with our client on a printed magazine design, this edition opens with a striking conceptual illustration to trigger a sense of intrigue in the audience.
AMBS
Printed magazine design
To increase engagement and reach, we developed an online magazine design that, while feeding from the original printed format for consistency in the user journey, feels fresh and native to a digital platform.
AMBS
Online magazine design
A first for our client, this sustainability report design tells a powerful story of how H&T Presspart succeeds at hitting ambitious targets.
H&T Presspart
Sustainability report design
A varied mix of on-site footage, product renders and animation, this corporate promotional video helped amplify H&T Presspart’s message in front of thousands.
H&T Presspart
Corporate promotional video
A different take on a healthcare animated explainer: an energising retro gaming visual style to explain the benefits of not abandoning prescribed treatment.
St George’s University Hospitals
Animated explainer
Together with an animation we also created for St George’s University Hospitals, this medical process infographic helps gout patients understand the importance of consistent and continued treatment.
St George’s University Hospitals
Medical process infographic
Having made the leap from their previous shell scheme stands to a much larger custom-built, bespoke exhibition stand for the first time, this stand brings H&T Presspart’s new brand to life in a powerful way, supercharging their presence at CPHI and helping communicate our client’s evolution from manufacturer to leading developer and innovator.
H&T Presspart
Bespoke exhibition stand
A key element of AMBS’s digital evolution, this web design style guide gives our client the ability to extend their digital presence in a highly creative yet structured way.
AMBS
Web design style guide
The employee engagement video we produced is a “Day in the Life” piece of internal communications that engages from the start.
H&T Presspart
Employee engagement video
An internal branding design concept that links four corporate values and transmits the idea of every employee working together as one.
Prism Healthcare
Internal branding design
To help Biofortuna reposition themselves, we designed a modular flexible exhibition system highlighting how the integration between human expertise and technology makes our client a success in the industry.
Biofortuna
Modular flexible exhibition system
An engaging global employee onboarding pack that successfully presents AstraZeneca as a Great Place to Work.
AstraZeneca
Employee onboarding pack
An internal brand design that helped unify employees working in three locations and three languages under one common purpose.
H&T Presspart
Internal brand design
This refreshed business school magazine design comfortably brings together the informal energy of illustration and relaxed people photography with the weight of the issues affecting business in a post-pandemic landscape.
AMBS
Business school magazine design
For this careers fair collateral design project, we focused our efforts on exhibition stand graphics and flyer design that exude a sense of possibility and opportunity.
AstraZeneca
Careers fair collateral design
To encourage awareness and company-wide use of our client’s AskAZ portal, we developed a suite of internal communications animated explainer videos that educate and engage.
AstraZeneca
Internal communications animated explainer
Despite a relatively small plot size, the creative ideas behind this pop-up exhibition stand and collateral design contributed to a successful CIPD Expo for the AMBS team.
AMBS
Pop-up exhibition stand and collateral design
This LinkedIn ad campaign leans on clear and impactful messaging, the effectiveness of video, and the allure of a simple and beautiful animation to maximise audience response.
Biofortuna
LinkedIn ad campaign
A collection of branded social assets that highlights Dematic’s commitment to sustainability, diversity and inclusion amongst its workforce.
Dematic
Branded social assets
Three highly detailed cityscapes and a focus on presenting our client as a forward-thinking expert in their field made a success of this promotional animation.
Glazing Refurbishment
Promotional animation
A simple and uncomplicated tax report design that keeps transparency front of mind.
United Utilities
Tax report design
Inspired by precision engineering and the importance of a motivated workforce, our concept for H&T Group’s new brochure design relies on clear structure, attention to every detail and strong people photography.
Heitkamp & Thumann Group
Company profile brochure design
To illustrate a complex process step by step, we produced an explainer video and animation that exceeded all expectations.
H&T Presspart
Explainer video and animation
To maximise our client’s investment in the report booklet in the long term, we created a template-based design to make the process quicker, easier and therefore highly cost-effective in later editions.
digital ECMT
Report booklet
An infographic newsletter that fosters openness and collaboration between marketing and sales teams internally, month after month.
Dematic
Infographic newsletter
A corporate film that strikes the perfect balance between promoting leadership in the latest technology innovations and telling a story of human effort that feels open and personal.
H&T Presspart
Corporate film production
An internal animated video that relies on simplicity to become a memorable employee communications piece.
AstraZeneca
Internal animated video
Beautiful photography that illustrates the uniqueness of locations and their lifestyle benefits, combined with language that tells a powerful personal story made a success of this recruitment campaign.
AstraZeneca
Recruitment campaign
To communicate our client’s efforts in the digitalisation of their supply chain, we produced a collection of assets for their internal awareness campaign that exude energy and movement.
AstraZeneca
Internal awareness campaign assets
With this internal animation and associated brand elements we helped generate awareness of the importance of neurodiversity in the workplace.
AstraZeneca
Internal animation
After working with the charity to refresh their brand, we produced an impact report design that outlines how their programmes are making a real difference in the communities they support.
Act4Africa
Impact report design
A complete overhaul of our client’s PowerPoint presentation template gave them a sales and communications tool worthy of their reputation in the healthcare market research industry.
7i Group
PowerPoint presentation template
This uncomplicated and easily digestible employee video newsletter succeeded at informing and keeping 3,600+ staff engaged every month.
AstraZeneca
Employee video newsletter
The clean and uncomplicated design of this product sales brochure leaves room to focus on the product and its key attributes.
H&T Presspart
Product sales brochure
For this public information hoarding design we focused on simplicity. Despite that simplicity, the design manages to stand out, not get lost, in the wide range of locations where essential repair works take place, rural or urban.
United Utilities
Public information hoarding design
With the workforce gradually returning to AstraZeneca sites, we developed a set of award-winning internal stakeholder communications collateral that helped generate awareness of the variety of Covid-19 PCR tests available.
AstraZeneca
Internal stakeholder communications
To showcase our client’s expertise and major role in helping power the global economy we created a series of thought leadership infographics that lean on an uncomplicated and accessible design to make an impact.
Dematic
Thought leadership infographics
With impactful visuals and easy to read copy, this corporate magazine design maintains the momentum of previous editions and succeeds at transmitting the absolute determination and energy that have allowed INEOS to continue innovating despite the Covid-19 pandemic.
INEOS
Corporate magazine design
A testimonial video that communicates Somero’s unmatched expertise, and the company’s calibre as educator and innovator in their industry
Somero Enterprises
Client testimonial video
An uncomplicated and impactful animated information video that helped highlight the ongoing risk of Covid-19 and the importance of testing to guarantee a safe workplace.
AstraZeneca
Animated information video
With this social media animation we helped our client spread a message of positivity in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic.
AMBS
Social media animation
A Pop Art comic-book format was the vehicle chosen to remind employees of the importance of complying with GDPR across Four Seasons Health Care homes. The bright and punchy visual style helped generate curiosity and intrigue.
Four Seasons Health Care
Employee engagement booklet design
We launched H&T Presspart’s innovative capsule-based dry powder inhaler with a branding design that effectively positioned it for developing pharmaceutical markets.
H&T Presspart
Branding design
We created a distinctive set of animated banner gifs that helped our client rise above competitors in a crowded digital space by focusing on the uniqueness of their offer.
AMBS
Animated banner gifs
This historic edition of our client’s’ company magazine tells a compelling story of their head-on fight against Coronavirus.
INEOS
Company magazine
This interim report design strikes a balance between presenting facts and figures and the highly emotional nature of what Brightlife does.
Brightlife
Interim report design
Going beyond just communicating a new initiative, we developed an explainer animation that acts as a highly engaging employee engagement tool.
AstraZeneca
Explainer animation
To help H&T Presspart inspire safety in their manufacturing environment, we produced a concise yet highly engaging Health & Safety video.
H&T Presspart
Workplace safety video
How do you remind 16,000 employees across over 250 locations of the importance of GDPR? With an internal communications campaign that creates impact without shock, is colourful, fun and yet professional, and at all times focused on achieving compliance with zero exceptions.
Four Seasons Health Care
Internal communications campaign
Our content and employee engagement teams worked closely with AstraZeneca to develop motion graphics that transmitted the importance of managing, securing, protecting and preserving data to make the right decisions in the interest of patients and the company as a whole.
AstraZeneca
Information governance animation
A dynamic yet solid corporate office design solution that turned an empty office into a welcoming and engaging space where ideas and employee recognition flow.
ByBox
Corporate office design
Distinctive, original, fun, and impactful. An employee engagement logo design that is the perfect combination to help Four Seasons Health Care communicate to its staff the importance of complying with GDPR.
Four Seasons Health Care
Employee engagement logo design
With over 250 care homes nationwide, Four Seasons Health Care wanted to transmit the importance of complying with GDPR in a way that was effective, memorable, and fun.
Four Seasons Health Care
Employee engagement posters
We are an experiential agency that loves to create unique brand experiences. To help our client grab a piece of the lucrative healthy food market, we unveiled their new organic chickpea snacks – HIPPEAS – with a 1960s-inspired experiential roadshow design for their launch event.
Hippeas
Experiential roadshow design
The product catalogue we designed is a sales piece that feels more like a brochure, at times reminding audiences of a lifestyle magazine, helping enhance the sales process.
Renray Healthcare
Product catalogue
This graduate recruitment animation exudes positivity, energy and the potential of what’s yet to come for ambitious graduates, acting as a beacon at busy career fairs.
AstraZeneca
Graduate recruitment animation
We are the branding agency that helped position Invosys as a disruptor in the telecoms industry by developing a “revolutionary” brand refresh that also succeeded as a powerful employee engagement and employee communications initiative.
Invosys
Branding design refresh
We are a marketing agency that brings together people, businesses and ideas through transformative design and effective marketing strategy. With this clever campaign, we helped Kingspan engage with architects, driving an increase in enquiries and giving sales teams more direct access to customers.
Kingspan
Direct mail campaign
Our exhibition design team helped the University of Northampton drive student interest in its new Waterside Campus with a versatile and attractive stand design.
University of Northampton
Fair stand design
A digital annual report design that highlights commitment to customer satisfaction and focus on performance.
United Utilities
Digital annual report design
From simple CAD drawings, our content creation and video production teams delivered engaging motion graphics that helped showcase our client’s latest respiratory drug delivery technology at a major industry conference.
H&T Presspart
Animated product video
We contributed to our client’s success at a major industry conference with an engaging and effective sales collateral design that focuses on the simplicity of H&T Presspart’s new product.
H&T Presspart
Sales collateral
To educate Four Seasons employees on the impact of not complying with GDPR, we produced a fun and colourful animation inspired by Pop Art that contributed to an effective and engaging learning experience.
Four Seasons Health Care
Compliance animated video
To help promote H&T Presspart’s leadership in product and process innovation, we created a piece of promotional literature that goes beyond traditional sales brochure design.
H&T Presspart
Marketing brochure design
Mid-way through an ambitious 5-year plan, United Utilities asked us to design a digital corporate report to update customers and shareholders on the progress against 5 key performance commitments. The report design energises audiences by presenting results in a compelling and balanced way.
United Utilities
Digital corporate report
We created a Prezi presentation design that immediately establishes a connection between the company values and the employees who make them a reality.
Four Seasons Health Care
Prezi presentation
Having acquired the exclusive healthcare rights to an innovative mattress technology, Renray Healthcare needed us to help them launch the product.
Renray Healthcare
Brand logo design
We created a clean and contemporary multi-lingual CMS and web design that presents H&T Presspart as an authority in their field at the cutting edge of innovation.
H&T Presspart
Multi-lingual CMS and web design
The effective combination of bright and colourful design with strong employee engagement ideas resulted in awards collateral that radiates brightness and positivity, and succeeds at inspiring everyone to get involved and recognise the efforts of those around them.
Four Seasons Health Care
Internal awards collateral design
We built a scale 3D product demo model to showcase the functionality of H&T Presspart’s latest respiratory drug delivery service.
H&T Presspart
3D product demo
We are an experiential agency that uncovers the true potential of your building interiors. To promote the University of Northampton’s new Waterside campus, we created an impressive and engaging Visitor Centre design for students and staff.
University of Northampton
Visitor centre design
We delivered a training manual that ensures the effective development of healthcare staff, thanks to creative ideas that aid learning and on-going career progression.
Four Seasons Health Care
Training manual design
Work with a marketing agency that can deliver positive social action in a fun and impactful way. By focusing on people and their stories, we devised a marketing strategy for Brightlife that helped them fight social isolation among adults over 50.