Blake Neale
is an award-winning motion graphic designer, art director, copywriter, poet, and novelist based in London. He’s available for hire. And he loves biscuits.




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Blake’s fresh out of a 16.5 year stint art directing and designing a wide range of projects for two television networks that both still broadcast the hit 90’s show Friends. But now he’ll be there for you, as he’s jumped head-first into the choppy waters of the freelance sea, ready to take on all your exciting creative projects — and maybe some of the boring ones too.


His career in television is extensive, having joined the industry when playout graphics were still being delivered on floppy disks, and he quite literally “wrote the book” for a number of brands recognised the world over. So there’s a good chance you’ve already seen his work without realising it. In fact, he’s helped launch 8 new TV channels, 4 SVOD and 2 BVOD platforms; he’s overseen 12 rebrands; directed over 250 idents; art directed a comedy festival; art co-directed 5 experiential events; designed multiple TV title sequences; designed and/or art directed far too many promo campaigns and key art packages to actually count; won a shelf-load of shiny metal awards; and mentored 7 budding designers along the way.

He also served as Design Consultant for Channel 5’s 2020 rebrand, including pitching his own ident concepts to the creative director — which won the pitch — despite not actually working for Channel 5 at the time. The new-look channel even went on to win Channel of the Year accolades from the Royal Television Society and the Broadcast Awards later that year, no doubt bolstered by the brand’s strong offerings of traffic-cops docs and royal-related retrospectives. Nevertheless, Blake officially started heading up all day-to-day graphics across the entire Channel 5 portfolio shortly after, evolving and maintaining the visual identity of all 6 of their channels, as well as managing and art directing his own team of designers — all the while still overseeing and art directing the entirety of Comedy Central’s UK design output and his design team there too.

He’s also art directed and/or led rebrand design for:

  • 5ACTION, along with Dave Hicks and Rosie Holtom (2022)
  • My5 (2021)
  • 5STAR (2019)
  • Paramount+ (international, 2018)
  • Paramount Comedy Spain (2013)
  • Paramount Comedy Russia (2012)
  • Comedy Central (2009, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2019)

  • That’s right, folks, he’s overseen 5 separate rebrands for Comedy Central over the course of a decade, which means he’s either really rather good at Comedy Central rebrands or astonishingly bad at them. Thankfully, winning big at the Broadcast Digital Awards in 2019 suggests it’s the former (phew) with Comedy Central crowned Best Entertainment Channel and praised specifically for its “360-degree confidence” and “fantastic” rebrand. So he must’ve been doing something right.

    He’s also art directed and designed branding for events run by the London Borough of Bromley; he’s designed artwork for events run by the Guildhall School of Music & Drama; he’s designed websites and intranet systems for multiple schools across London; he’s devised branding for film studios; he’s built websites for charities; and he even once designed a rather spiffing logo for UEFA despite his abject disinterest in competitive ball manipuation.

    Blake’s highly proficient in the Adobe Creative suite — to the point he’s even taught After Effects, Dreamweaver, Illustrator, Photoshop, and Premiere to big rooms of people — as well as being highly proficient in Blender, Mocha Pro, and Tetris. He’s not afraid to get his hands dirty with good’ol fashioned plain-text HTML and CSS either, which still comes in handy far more than you might think. And he's even been known to build applets in Visual Basic to improve workflows — because he’s that kinda guy.

    As well as having a firm grasp of the visual and technical side of things, Blake’s also written reams of questions for press junkets; he’s scripted TV channel continuity; he’s written taglines for TV shows; and he’s script-edited two sitcom pilots, one of which scored so well with test audiences that it was commissioned for a full-blown series in America, albeit sadly without Blake on board — which is perhaps why it flopped ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

    His debut novel is on the cusp of being released; he’s just waiting for the ink to dry. But rest assured that it features brand-spanking-new jokes about Shakespeare (William), egg & cress (sandwiches), and sudoku (the tedious numbers game). You know, all the hard-hitting comedy material that everyone else is too scared to tackle right now. Just call him “bad ass”.

    If that’s not enough, his self-initiated projects have previously featured on the front page of Metro online, been twice tweeted by the BBC, covered by NME, and he’s even made it onto the front page of The Poke — the UK’s biggest humour site — so he’s got all that going for him too.

    You won’t find Blake on the likes of Fakebook, Twatter/X or PrickTok, so avoid cheap imitations by experiencing the genuine cheap article exclusively here.