This isn’t a story about overcoming disability. It’s a story about designing around it, with it, until business became something that felt like home. This post explores how I built Angell Designs to honour my body’s truth and what that means for my clients.

Disabled creatives don’t just adapt. We innovate. Entrepreneurship is possible (and powerful) when you build a business around your energy, creativity, and lived experience. Here’s how.

Design shapes how we see the world and how the world sees us. In health and wellness spaces, visual branding has the power to challenge stigma, centre lived experience, and create safer systems. This is what it means to use design as activism and why it matters now more than ever.

Design isn’t just about making things look good. It’s about making people feel safe, seen, and included. “Designing for humans” means creating with access, emotion, and lived experience at the centre. In this post, I explore what inclusive design really means, why it matters, and how I apply it to help people who don’t fit the mould feel like they belong.

Burnout doesn’t always look like collapsing on the couch. Sometimes, it looks like a hundred open Canva tabs and a creeping dread about your next post. If branding feels more like a burden than a creative outlet, you might be facing branding burnout. Here’s how to recognise the signs and reset.

Consistency isn’t just about design. It’s about trust. From healthcare experiences to small business branding, discover how consistent visuals, messaging, and values attract loyal clients.

Accessibility is personal, powerful, and practical. From lived experience to branding strategy, discover why I advocate for accessibility and how inclusive design benefits everyone.

From architecture to graphic design, the way we design spaces affects health, wellbeing, and inclusivity. Learn how health and design intersect to create environments that empower and welcome everyone.

Creativity and depression are two seemingly disparate facets of the human experience. Creativity represents the wellspring of inspiration, innovation, and expression, while depression is a shadow that casts a heavy veil over one’s emotional wellbeing. However, the intricate connection between these two phenomena goes far beyond the surface…

The architecture firm Schored Projects has designed a series of modular homes for women and children escaping domestic violence. The project, Homes for Help, is designed to fit together in multiple configurations… The project aims to enable dignity, independence, and comfort for those who will eventually live in them.