About High Flying Design

High Flying Design launched in 2025 as an online magazine for female founders. It’s currently ranked #7 in FeedSpot's Top 50 Women's Magazines (September 2026).

Female founders don't all want the same thing from their business. When 2,225 UK female founders were surveyed for the Rise Report, 53% defined success as stability and profitability, 38% as scaling and an exit, and 21% included work-life balance (many gave more than one answer). We write for all of them, wherever they're building.

We publish the practical side of running a business, from grants and pensions to PR, alongside the personal side, like confidence and burnout.

We also interview women about how they came to run their own business and what they've learned along the way. Several are based here in Essex.

More than sixty contributors have written for High Flying Design, each about something they've worked out for themselves. If you've got something to say, we'd like to hear from you.

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Meet our editor, Shannon Kate Murray

High Flying Design was founded by Shannon Kate Murray from her home office along Essex’s sunshine coast.

Shannon studied Fashion Journalism at the University for the Creative Arts, graduating with a first, then spent most of her twenties working in marketing, PR and communications, rising to Assistant Director of Marketing and Operations at ThoughtLDR.

Years of working closely with small business owners showed her how often they put the business before the rest of their life. High Flying Design covers both the business and the woman running it. Shannon interviews the founders it features and works with its contributors to share what they've learned.

Outside of the magazine, Shannon designs Squarespace websites for small businesses. She appears in Blatella Films' 2026 documentary redefining the Essex Girl stereotype, and donates to Kurandza, which works with women in Mozambique through education and business grants.

You can reach her at hello@highflyingdesign.com.