Helen Keyes

Helen has more than twenty-two years of international experience in graphic design and brand identity. Before starting The Brewery in New York she ran her own business, Blue Ink Co. Helen was previously Managing Director of Creative at Enterprise IG (now BrandUnion), New York.

While working in the UK she was an external identity consultant to Future Brand and Real Time Studio; prior to this she was Creative/Board Director of Luxon Carrá Design; Design Director with Wolff Olins; Design Director with SampsonTyrrell Design (now Enterprise IG, London); and began her career as a graphic designer with Raymond Loewy International.

Clients Helen has worked with in the US include: Aetna US Healthcare; Bank of America; BellaVita Foods; Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida; DuPont “Invista” brand; Ethicon; Ford Motor Company; FirstCaribbean International Bank; Foresters; Incepture; HSBC Bank USA; Instinet Corporation (a Reuters company); Marquis Jet; MBNA Bank; Merck; Metavante; Monadnock; Motorola; Navigy; Radianz (now a BT company); Schering-Plough; and Towers Perrin.

In Europe her clients included: Aer Lingus; BAA; Britannia Airways; Britannia Building Society; British Telecom; The British Tourist Authority; Camper & Nicholson yacht charter; Mazda Motors Europe; Merita Bank, Finland; Metsa Serla Paper and Board, Finland; Royal Mail; Royal & SunAlliance Insurance; Scandinavian Airlines, Sweden; Vauxhall Motors; and Virgin Our Price music stores.

Helen holds a Bachelor of Arts, with Honours, in Media and Production Design from the London College of Printing, England.