Digital Designer · CRM · Ecommerce · Brand

Design across the
whole customer journey.

I'm Marlena Kaminska - a digital designer combining strong visual craft with commercial thinking for retail and lifestyle brands. From the first ad to the final checkout, I make work that looks good and sells well.

FocusJourney-led design
ExperienceIn-house, retail
BasedNorth West UK
Selected work
02 One lighting product shown as a central cutout, surrounded by living room, bedroom and hallway lifestyle images, dimension diagram and neutral-background variants, labelled 40 SKUs, 280+ assets, £6k saved
AI Art DirectionEcommerce

40 Products. £6k Saved.

A scalable, AI-assisted workflow creating complete ecommerce image suites for 40 lighting products - consistent, on-brand and a fraction of a traditional shoot.

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03 Akatsuki × menswear campaign hero — dark, fashion-forward menswear styling
Integrated CampaignAI Art Direction

Akatsuki × Menswear

A self-initiated fashion campaign concept - a fictional Akatsuki × menswear collaboration, art-directed with AI across web, email, social and paid.

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04 Rattan outdoor lifestyle photography — summer campaign imagery
Ecommerce & CRMArt Direction

Other Selected Projects

A wider selection of work — homepage trading design, Black Friday campaigns, modular CRM templates, product-launch pages and outdoor lifestyle photography.

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05 ValueLights photography guidelines — product and lifestyle photography standards
Brand & GuidelinesArt Direction

ValueLights Photography Guidelines

A photography and content standards guide bringing consistency across product listings and marketing imagery — from studio and lifestyle photography to a repeatable eight-image listing structure.

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What I do

Across the journey,
end to end.

In-house experience means I design with real trading calendars, real audiences and real revenue targets in mind.

01CRM & EmailKlaviyo flows, campaign calendars and modular template systems built for skim-reading and mobile.
02Ecommerce & ConversionHomepages, landing pages and seasonal trading design shaped around conversion hierarchy.
03Brand & IdentityBrand refreshes, guidelines and multi-channel systems the whole team can build on.
04Art Direction & CampaignLifestyle shoots and integrated campaign creative planned for use across every channel.
05UX / UIEvidence-led journey improvements and mobile-first design that removes real friction.
06Paid & TradeAd creative systems built for testing, and B2B design for buyers rather than browsers.
About

Craft and commerce,
held equally.

In-house work taught me what agencies rarely see: how trading calendars actually run, how design decisions show up in performance data, and how to keep a brand consistent when ten things launch in the same week.

A good email is beautiful and drives clicks. A good product page builds the brand and converts. That overlap is where I do my best work.

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Contact

Let's make something
that works.

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