A small design company with big ideas.

Van Gill Media is the design practice of Dave Milligan, a self-taught graphic designer and acclaimed musician with over twenty years’ experience delivering visual communication for the arts and cultural sector. Working closely with artists, festivals, venues, and arts organisations, Van Gill Media provides thoughtful, audience-focused design that supports artistic intent and public engagement throughout the UK.

The practice has worked with a wide range of established clients including Karine Polwart, Hudson Records, Cromarty Arts Trust, Soundhouse, Tradfest, Shooglenifty, Session A9, Old Blind Dogs, String Sisters, Fèis Rois, Lepus Productions, Simon Thoumire, Martin Green, Colin Steele, Scots Music Group, and Amy Geddes, contributing to projects across music, performance, education, and community arts.

Based in Midlothian, Van Gill Media specialises in print and digital design for arts organisations, performers, promoters, and venues. Outputs include album artwork (CD and vinyl), posters, flyers, brochures, programmes, booklets, and logo and visual identity design. Known for a collaborative, reliable, and detail-driven approach, Dave prioritises understanding the artistic, organisational, and audience context of each project, ensuring design solutions are clear, accessible, and production-ready.

“David’s work is clean, beautiful and eye-catching. More than merely making you a design, he helps you work out what you are trying to say and presents ways to do that. Can’t recommend highly enough.” 

LEPUS ARTS

“I’ve trusted Van Gill Media with most of my key music project design work over the past five years, including an album cover, as well as tour poster and socials imagery. His work is thoughtful and meticulous, and always understands the brief and meets it on time. I’d definitely work with him again and recommend him to others.” 

KARINE POLWART

“I have used Van Gill Media repeatedly over the years. Not only are they able to interpret our briefs accurately (and speedily), they have an intimate understanding of the space we are in – live music. The graphics are eye-catching and often come in many versions. The only problem is choosing between a number of excellent options!”

SOUNDHOUSE (Edinburgh Tradfest / Soundhouse Winter Festival)

“Since 2013 Van Gill Media has been my go to company for all design work. The remits have varied from simple one off events fliers and CD covers to overall company brand design (including design of logos, website, banners and all other marketing materials). All of the work is beautifully crafted, carefully thought through and discussed at length with the customer – and always delivered well within deadlines. We wouldn’t go anywhere else!” 

AMY GEDDES (Deiseil Airson Dannsa)

We specialise in:

CD & Vinyl album artwork

(Digipak, Vinyl, Jewel Case, Card Wallets, Booklets, Layout, Covers)

Posters & flyers

(All Poster Sizes, Flyers, Brochures, Booklets, Postcards etc)

Digital photo manipulation.

(Image improvement & restoration, colour alteration, super-imposing, effects, photo-stitching etc)

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