Jenny Elliott is an award-winning Urban Designer and Illustrator based in Edinburgh, Scotland
Jenny Elliott works at the interface of sustainable, collaborative and visual design, with experience in urban design, co-design, user research, graphic design, illustration and photography. An Urban Designer and Chartered Landscape Architect by training, Jenny has particular expertise in collaborative data-driven public space projects and visual communication.
As a Member of the Association of Illustrators and Chartered Landscape Architect, I blend expertise in visual communication with built environment design, as well as PhD research using human-centred systems thinking approaches to understand how as an industry we can practically create greener, healthier streets and future cities. This combination helps me find innovative ways to reimagine our built environment and create impactful visual narratives.
Services
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Illustration and Graphic Design
Architectural built environment illustration, infographics, graphic design, live illustration sketch notes / graphic recording for webinars and events, report design.
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Urban Design and Research
Urban design and research applying data-driven, co-design, and end-user research methodologies to inform design and evaluation of public spaces and the built environment.
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Photography and Film
Visual documentation of events and workshops, cities and public spaces, or to summarise and share urban design projects, processes and outputs in a visually engaging way.
Previous Clients
Living Streets
V&A Dundee
Creative Stirling
City of Edinburgh Council
Edinburgh Futures Institute
University of Edinburgh
The Stove Network
Creative Scotland
"We are delighted with the work Jenny has produced on the inclusive design of our streets. Her skill in understanding the vision and style we needed meant we were confident in getting the result we needed for the project. Jenny is a pleasure to work with and we wouldn't hesitate to recommend her."
Sam Wakeling, Living Streets
Awards
‘Partnership and Collaboration’ UK-wide Landscape Institute Award Finalist for my freelance urban design, public space user experience research, and co-design work leading project Future of the High Street in 2021.
‘Excellence in Community Engagement and Design’ Landscape Institute Award 2020 for my freelance urban design, graphic design, stakeholder engagement and visual communication work for Edinburgh Living Lab delivering the ‘design’ strand of an interdisciplinary ‘neighbourhood-scale project combining service design, data-driven and human-centred design approaches.
Winner of two Scottish Design Awards as part of the Here+Now team for novel co-design, place-based research and landscape architecture project work in my former role as Co-Founder/Director.
Winner of the UK-wide LDA Award for Excellence in Landscape Design for my Masters in Landscape Architecture
About
Interested in transforming urban spaces through innovative design, research and collaboration and using visual communication to drive engagement and impact, much of my work involves integrating data-driven, observational and user experience insights about the city to drive positive change through the design, analysis or visualisation of streets and other public spaces. I have instigated, and led numerous creative placemaking projects - using film, photography, visual arts and participation to catalyse change and collaboration, or reimagine overlooked urban places.