Creative Director & Graphic Designer

Sophie Taylor

Sophie Taylor

Passion, Creativity, and Expertise

Sophie Taylor is an award-winning creative director, designer, and mentor with 19 years of client experience, an excellent eye for design, and a passion for creating brands that blend function and art to tell stories through print, digital, and products. Sophie works with diverse clients in a variety of industries from New York City to Hong Kong.

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Creative Director & Graphic Designer

Sophie Taylor

Passion, Creativity, and Expertise

Sophie Taylor is an award-winning designer with 19 years of client experience, an excellent eye for design, and a passion for creating brands that blend function and art to tell stories through print, digital, and products. Sophie works with diverse clients in a variety of industries from New York City to Hong Kong.

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Creative Director & Graphic Designer

Sophie Taylor

Passion, Creativity, and Expertise

Sophie Taylor is an award-winning designer with 19 years of client experience, an excellent eye for design, and a passion for creating brands that blend function and art to tell stories through print, digital, and products. Sophie works with diverse clients in a variety of industries from New York City to Hong Kong.

About

For design inquiries please visit the
Castlefield website.

For general inquiries please email
hello@sophietaylor.com.

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Background

  • Nationalities: American, German, Canadian
  • Languages: English & German

Education

  • Bachelor’s Degree
    • University of California, Davis
    • Visual Communication, German

  • Master’s Degree
    • Ryerson University
    • Researched branding in high-end fashion brands

Experience

  • 19 years of in-house and freelance design experience
  • Working with diverse clients in a variety of industries
  • Clients and customers in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Oceania
  • Business consulting and brand audits
  • Design tutoring and mentorship

Awards

Organizations

  • Ladies, Wine & Design Toronto chapter lead
  • Committee member for Women’s College Hospital Foundation’s 2023 Black Women’s Health Summit
  • Artscape UpstART mentor
  • Former Big Brothers Big Sisters mentor

Interests

Graphic design, art, fashion, interior design, culture, history, food, travel, sports

Hobbies

Field hockey, cello, ballet, art, reading

 

Brands

Castlefield is a boutique luxury branding and design boutique, and shop offering beautiful home décor, fashion, accessories, and stationery products.

Creative Start™ is a nonprofit that provides workshops, courses, talks, and mentorship in design and the arts to diverse girls and young women, especially those who are Black, Brown, or Indigenous.

The Art of Design is a treasury of creativity, culture, and craftsmanship that tells the stories of design talents across the globe.

A Castlefield brand offering luxe lifestyle goods for home, office, wellness, and travel including décor, apparel, and accessories.

Sophie is Co-Founder and Creative Director for the Beauty Concierge, a directory of high-end BIWOC-owned beauty and fashion brands.

Design services for small businesses and creative entrepreneurs. Shop with pre-made, customizable design templates.

A club for female-led dystopian, magical realism, fantasy, and adventure stories, especially works by BIWOC authors.

A blog featuring art and design inspiration from professionals and creatives around the world.

Press & Awards

Castlefield’s client work has been featured internationally in lifestyle publications such as Marie Claire Hong Kong and popular on design sites like 99designs; our stationery has been part of over 50 wedding editorial shoots and featured in publications such as Munaluchi Bride and WedLuxe; and our brand was featured as a case study in the first edition of Marketing Fashion from Laurence King.

Sophie Taylor is a 4x consecutive winner of ByBlacks’ People’s Choice Award for Best Graphic Designer (2018, 2019, 2020, 2021) and received the Black Designers of Canada Award of Excellence for her brand and design work in 2022.

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