Emma Vallon's 2026 freelance branding portfolio design covers six projects — food brands, cultural institutions, each built on mascots and a type system.

The cover sets the logic early. Burnt orange — a specific #E05C35 — fills the frame, and 'PORTFOLIO' in a heavy extended grotesque bleeds edge to edge at the bottom. A 12-pointed starburst sits centered above, solid black. Each project in this freelance branding portfolio design follows the same structure: one typographic anchor, one palette, one character. MACKA, the Swedish sandwich shop, runs black and cream with a Dala horse flattened to a geometric silhouette — photographed on a real A-frame in sunlight. Canofee puts a skateboarding dog in ultra-fine linework on a pale blue can with a bold grotesque wordmark above. MBA Lyon's freelance branding portfolio design needed to read at museum scale and on a wristband: six solid bands — blue, yellow, pink, red, green, purple — each with black arrow chevrons, the color range functioning as the identity.

Freelance Branding Portfolio Design That Holds Range Without Losing Voice

Marie Grignotine, a Swiss bakery rebrand, uses a kraft bag photographed against the same burnt orange as the cover — deliberate. The mascots across Vallon's freelance branding portfolio design are never arbitrary: MACKA's Dala horse signals Swedish heritage, Canofee's dog signals running late, Marie Grignotine's figure is the owner herself. That clarity of concept is what makes this freelance branding portfolio design hold across six very different briefs.

See the full project by Emma Vallon on Behance.

Emma Vallon freelance branding portfolio design 2026 cover: 'PORTFOLIO' in massive black extended grotesque fills the bottom of a burnt-orange field, with a 12-pointed black starburst centered above
MACKA Swedish sandwich shop freelance branding design: 'MACKA' in white extended sans on black; A-frame sidewalk sign with geometric Dala horse mascot and wordmark in cream on black, photographed in sunlight
MUKY tableware freelance branding portfolio design: 'MUKY' in heavy black extended sans; glass mugs in amber, red, and gradient tones beside blue and yellow packaging boxes against a magenta-to-amber studio background
Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon freelance branding design: white bold type on black; stacked wristbands in blue, yellow, pink, red, green, and purple each printed with black arrow chevrons and the MBA Lyon wordmark
MBA Lyon freelance branding portfolio design metro poster campaign: French lightbox posters reading 'CONTEMPLER LES BEAUX-ARTS' pairing classical portraiture with the bold MBA Lyon visual identity
Canofee ready-to-drink coffee freelance branding portfolio design: pale blue aluminum can held in hand with a line-drawn skateboarding dog mascot and oversized 'CANOFEE' grotesque wordmark
Marie Grignotine Swiss bakery freelance branding design: kraft paper sandwich bag with line-drawn character mascot and a croissant above, photographed against the same burnt-orange background as the portfolio cover