This is my art direction and creative project management portfolio. Today I design bespoke websites.
Magazine spreads on agriculture with food photography and a cover titled Bird Matters
Company profile pages for CFA with port photography and navy and red layouts

Editorial Design

For magazines, booklets, company profiles, lookbooks, menus, media kits and client-facing PDFs.

I organise supplied content into a readable page structure, establish the typography and image rhythm, then prepare the finished piece for print or digital use.

Best fit for

  • Company profiles and capability documents
  • Magazines, reports and booklets
  • Lookbooks, menus and brochures
  • Speaker, influencer and personal brand media kits
  • Portfolios and client-facing PDFs

What it covers

  • Content and page structure
  • Layout design
  • Typography and spacing
  • Image flow and placement
  • Proofing and corrections
  • Print or digital export
The Nia Amani career coach website on a laptop and a phone

Website Design

For WordPress websites, landing pages, portfolios, event websites and service-led websites.

The work covers page planning, copy structure, responsive design, image selection, enquiry routes and launch preparation.

Best fit for

  • Personal brands and creative professionals
  • Photographers, chefs, speakers, stylists and coaches
  • Event planners, interior designers and boutique studios
  • Beauty, wellness and lifestyle brands
  • Airbnb hosts, boutique stays, lodges and small hotels

What it covers

  • Page planning
  • Copy structure and content hierarchy
  • Moodboard and visual direction
  • Website design and build
  • Image selection and placement
  • Mobile and desktop checks
  • Pre-launch review
Northline coworking website pages in dark green and yellow

Website Refresh

For websites with useful material but weak structure or presentation.

I review the page order, copy hierarchy, imagery, spacing, calls to action and mobile experience, then rebuild the sections that need attention.

Best fit for

  • Homepage and service-page refreshes
  • Portfolio and image updates
  • Layout and copy-order corrections
  • Mobile presentation checks
  • Event, menu or seasonal website updates
The Morrow and Vale law firm website on a laptop and a phone

Website Maintenance

For brands that need their WordPress website kept current after launch.

Support can cover new pages, portfolio additions, event or menu updates, image changes, content uploads and layout corrections.

Best fit for

  • Regular page and image updates
  • Portfolio and case-study additions
  • Menu, service and event changes
  • New sections and landing pages
  • Ongoing WordPress content support

What it covers

  • Page and content updates
  • Image updates
  • Portfolio and case-study additions
  • Menu, service or event updates
  • New sections and landing pages
  • Layout corrections
  • WordPress content support

Who I work with

Personal brands

Photographers, chefs, speakers, stylists, coaches, event planners and influencers.

Studios and portfolios

Portfolio-led businesses, boutique studios and interior designers.

Beauty, wellness and lifestyle

Beauty and wellness brands, and refined lifestyle brands.

Stays and hospitality

Airbnb hosts, boutique stays, lodges, small hotels and hospitality brands.

The brands I have worked with

Share your project.

Share the project type, what material is ready, your timeline and investment. Email me or send a WhatsApp.

For websites, go to alansuccess.com.

Hi, I'm Alan.

This site is my portfolio of art direction and creative project management. Today my main service is bespoke website design. Read the quick answers below, or tell me about your project on WhatsApp.

Quick answers

Bespoke website design is my main service today. I also take on:

  • Art direction for brand identity, logo, photo shoot and campaign projects
  • Creative project management, from the first brief to the final files
  • Care and updates for websites that are already live

A website planned and designed for your business only. We agree who it is for and what visitors should do, then every page is designed around your own words, photos and brand. Nothing is cut or cropped to fit a ready-made theme.

Every website is priced after a short brief, and I reply with your price within two business days. See the websites at alansuccess.com.

I set the look before anything is made: the references, the colours, the type and how the photos should feel. I direct brand identity and logo projects, photo shoots and campaigns. I write the brief, choose the designers and photographers, and review their work until you sign off.

For the Rivertrees festive season, I set the Emerald Green theme and directed the shoot with Sky Studios. See the project.

I turn your ideas into one clear brief, choose the right studio or designer, and run every review until sign-off. The work can be a rebrand, a brand rollout across menus, signs and documents, or marketing materials such as brochures, posters, ads and social media content.

You deal with one person, so you don’t have to follow every detail yourself. For Lairs Camps, I wrote the brief for Yöy Agency and managed the work through to handover. See the project.

Planet Lodges, ADINA Lodges, Good Earth Tours, the British School of Zanzibar, Nomad Tanzania, Rivertrees Country Inn, Lairs Camps, Love Boo and Seissense.

See every project

Yes, including websites someone else built:

  • A redesign, or new versions of the pages that are not working
  • Tunza Website Care every month
  • A paid website review: a written list of what to fix first
  • Copy polish, or new copy for your pages
  • An email signature, a Google Business Profile, analytics or an email signup

Send me the link and what you need, and I confirm the price before we start.

Tunza Website Care, each month: about 30 minutes of small changes, updates with a backup first, a security check, a test message through your form, broken links fixed and a visitor report from Google.

Bigger changes are quoted. You can stop with a month’s notice.

Every website is priced after a short brief, because the price depends on your pages, your content and where your business is.

Art direction and creative project management are quoted after I read your brief, because each project is a different size. Your budget sets the scope, and your written quote confirms the price and dates before anything is booked.

In Tanzania. I work with brands across East Africa and with clients in the UK, Europe, Dubai and the USA. Every meeting is online, on WhatsApp, Zoom or Google Meet, so we don’t need to meet in person.

Send me a WhatsApp with what you need, your budget and your date, or use the form here. For a website, you can also send your brief at alansuccess.com, and I reply with your price within two business days.

I take on a few projects at a time, so the sooner you write, the more start dates you can choose from.