“In the Southern Ocean where the waves are not destroyed by breaking on any beach, the great swells produced by the westerly winds roll around and around the world.”
― Rachel Carson, The Sea Around Us
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Welcome to Creative Expeditions, the portfolio of Simon Nicholas Pattenden, a communications designer and artist with over 20-years of multimedia experience and creative practice.
Unquestionably, a familiar thread running throughout Simon’s work is an absolute passion for the world's oceans, particularly the seas that wash over the shorelines in the South West of England.
In this selection of work is a diversity of media that represents creative range featuring nature conservation, people and nature, and the capturing of moments within the rapid passing of time, fleeting, flowing and unstoppable.
Photography & film
“S N Pattenden is in the top 10% of Unsplash contributors gaining 8.5M views and >45K downloads.”
The weekly edit
Rough cuts: Seasonal Change. Saturday 22nd August 2026: Beautiful B-roll. Walking the incredible coastline of St Agnes, Cornwall.
Online credits
Design communications
Research Projects & Brand Guidance
RENEW Biodiversity Programme, University of Exeter & the National Trust.
The brand strategy for this critical multi-partner research project centred around its bid statement (funding application) and logo, which came with a unique set of challenges. This commonly happens on big research projects like RENEW, where messaging such as biodiversity renewal is time-critical. Research moves fast, and Brand Managers often need to respond quickly and resiliently.
Above: Multi-partner project brand management with a little extra seasoning.
Asset design
Above: Presentation assets: Poetry by local school children. Guidance by leading poets. Conservation through immersive workshop experiences.
Above: Internal communication design. Uniting over 100 researchers on multi partner projects.
Conversations with change makers
Above: Award winning Author, Zoologist, Illustrator and Campaigner, Nicola Davies discusses the 2023 RENEW x BookTrust Biodiversity Storytelling Summit. Footage, interview, audio, transitions and final edit: S N Pattenden
Above: Award winning Author, and Founder of Mango Lime Publishing, Marva Carty speaking at Kew Gardens, London. Footage, interview, audio, transitions and final edit: S N Pattenden
Above: The brilliant Sue Hendra writer and illustrator of over 100 books for children. Footage, interview, audio, transitions and final edit: S N Pattenden
Above: Professor of Poetry John Wedgwood Clarke. Footage, interview, audio, transitions and final edit: S N Pattenden
Above: Operational Biodiversity Programme Lead at Lloyds Bank, Cheryl Jones. Footage, interview, audio, transitions and final edit: S N Pattenden
Above: Interviewing small business entrepreneurs for Falmouth University. At the point of this interview Big Data Specialist George Watson was embarking on a new career with SKY. Footage, interview, audio, transitions and final edit: S N Pattenden
Collaborative working
Above: CBI Economics x RENEW. Footage: Various royalty free. Final edit & transitions: S N Pattenden
Above: Sustainability projects don’t get much bigger than this. The INHERIT Online course (2019) EuroHealthNet x University of Exeter. Various royalty free. Final edit & transitions: S N Pattenden Animation: Revolve Media.
Animated research
Above: Animated snippets: How do you communicate the axis of human health and changes in air pollution over a lifetime?
Above: Animated snippets: Designing and producing retro animated sequences to illustrate interventions to reduce air pollution and its impacts.
Building narratives
Above: A short sketch working with an Apiarist in North Cornwall following the delicate relationship between a keeper and his hive.