About Us
Helping you promote the very best of who you are...
Turbine Creative is proud to be a Nottingham-based design agency working with ambitious brands both locally and across the world. We love to create compelling and impactful marketing content in the form of videos, animations, branded content and strategic marketing campaigns.
Turbine Creative was founded in 2020 by Tim Bassford as a response to seeing so much bland, non-personalised, generic marketing and communications content being created that didn’t really express a company’s true potential or the fullness of what they were offering to the world. 'Self-actualisation', in Maslow’s hierarchy of human needs, is the “full use and exploitation of talents, capabilities and potential” and that (on a company-wide level) is what we want to help organisations to do. Presenting the best of themselves, and their services to the world.

"We were blown away by your quick response, creativity and understanding of what we were trying to achieve. Thanks for your key contributions to a very successful campaign."
BBC Producer, Sport Relief Liaison
Our Team

Tim Bassford
Creative Director / Founder
Tim is an multi-award winning designer with over 17 years’ agency experience working on major projects for brands such as Disney, BBC, Team GB, Innovate UK and Johnson & Johnson. Tim is the founder of Turbine Creative and an ambitious (and enthusiastic!) leader of creative teams. He loves getting his hands on all kinds of projects but video creation is his particular passion.

Mark Osborne
Senior Motion Designer
Mark is our Senior Designer with over 15 years of agency and in-house experience. He is experienced in many types of design including branding, video, motion design, print design, and illustration. Mark's strengths lie in creative conceptualisation and taking these ideas and rolling them out seamlessly through different media channels.

Kate Plummer
Senior Project Manager
Kate is our seasoned Marketer and Project Manager boasting over 20 years of expertise in the creative industry. She specialises in curating captivating branding experiences, video production and launch plans. Kate's forte lies in building genuine trust with clients, integrating as an extension of their team. Kate is also an expert in digital solutions and Co-Founder of Collective Security.

Chevonne Courtney
Accounts
Chevonne loves to be working in the background, amongst about the numbers! Her background is a mixed bag, studying French, Business and Biology she has gained a great deal of skills from her varied work, from building in Bolivia to learning the art of Reflexology.

Joana Matos
Motion Designer / Video Editor
Joana Matos is our incredibly talented video editor, animator and graphic designer. Joana is originally from Porto in Portugal and is a multi-skilled, multi-lingual creative! Having produced original content for Boots, TED Talks, and the Dragon Fly Cancer Trust to name a few.

Dave Stewart
Videographer / Editor (Associate Team Member)
We've worked with Dave for over 10 years on many exciting projects. From award-winning short films to corporate superhero videos and video content for Premier League Clubs. As an independent camera operator Dave is a perfect collaborative partner with the technical knowledge to pull off pretty much anything we throw at him.

Simon Helliwell
Senior Designer (Associate Team Member)
Simon Helliwell is a versatile and highly experienced, independent graphic designer with over 20 years of experience working on major brand, marketing, and digital design projects. A real joy to work with, Simon’s enthusiasm and unrelenting creativity make him a truly valued member of the team. In his spare time, Simon loves to spend time with his family, out on his mountain bike or illustrating new artwork for his side hustle Bikeprints.co.uk

New team member
Coming soon...
Collaboration & Clear Communication
We’re a highly collaborative agency working alongside our clients as an extended part of their marketing team.
We will support you with regular and clear communication - always adding value wherever we can. Whether that involves marketing strategy, content creation, brand development or just a quick chat over a particular marketing/communication challenge you may be having.
We always aim to build long-term partnerships with our clients so we get to understand their brand more intimately and they know we 'get' who they are ,and what they are trying to achieve.
We’re environmentally responsible and community-minded
We’re always looking for ways to reduce our carbon footprint and be a positive influence on our environment. From our inception we have partnered with the brilliant Ecologi organisation to ensure we are a climate positive organisation.
Ecologi has an ethos based on transparency and putting our planet ahead of profit, they’ve grown a passionate community of over 18,000 businesses and 40,000 members in under five years. Through the support of their emerging community, they’ve funded the planting of over 60 million trees, prevented over 2.5 million tonnes of CO2e from entering our atmosphere through certified carbon avoidance projects.
We’re also passionate about the power of creativity and design communication to support great causes, irrespective of budget. Which is why we donate a percentage of our billable hours to support the FreeCreate Network.
Some examples of our clients:







