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Harriet Yakub
harrietyakub@gmail.com

Award-winning multidisciplinary brand designer with experience across identity systems, packaging, motion and campaign development for global and culturally relevant brands. Combines conceptual thinking, visual storytelling and craft-led execution to build distinctive brand worlds across digital, physical and moving media.

Born and raised in Dublin, Ireland with Ukrainian heritage.

In my personal life I love swimming, specialty coffee & elevator music.

Education

NCAD
BA Visual Communication, Illustration
First Class honours
2021

D&AD New Blood Academy
2021

Employment

Freelance Illustrator
2020 - Present

Freelance Brand & Motion Designer
2025 - Present

Midweight Designer
The Tenth Man
Dublin
2025

Junior Designer
1HQ
Amsterdam
2023 - 2024

Design Intern
Transforma BCN
Barcelona
2021

Inhouse Illustrator
fyio
London
2020 - 2021

Skills

Adobe suite
Photoshop / Illustrator / After Effects / inDesign
& more

Illustration
Art Direction
Identity Design
2D Motion design
Concept development
Pattern development
Packaging design
AI Innovation
Print setup
PitchingFigma
Riso

Awards

D&AD
Yellow Pencil 2021

D&AD
Portfolio Pick New Blood Festival

IDI
Grand Prix Design Graduate

IDI
Design for Moving Image

IDI
Use of Illustration in Design

Press

Harriet Yakub finds the funny in the everyday, and turns it into cartoon-like illustrations
Creative Boom
2026

How travelling with nothing but pencils and a notepad helped
Harriet Yakub tackle her fear of a blank page
It’s Nice That
2025

Harriet Yakub’s alphabetical postcards are an A to Z of modern life
It’s Nice That
2023

It’s Nice That’s Generation Continued...
It’s Nice That
2021

Exhibitions

Dublin Art Book Fair
Temple Bar Gallery + Studios
2025

GAF Shanghai International Illustration Art Expo
Shanghai
2025

IF KiBlind
Lyon
2024

Dublin 8, Ireland

Last Updated 17.02.26