Name, mark, type, colour and voice, designed as one system that holds at sixteen pixels and on the side of a building.
Typical timeline
6 to 8 weeks
You choose between
Three finished routes
You leave with
Guidelines and every asset
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The decisions, made once
The identity, assembled.
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A brand is a set of decisions made once and applied everywhere. It starts with a name.
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The mark is drawn on the grid, so it holds at favicon size and on a building.
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Type and palette follow the same rules. Systems, not moods.
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Then the guidelines: the rules, and the judgement for when they bend.
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Foil on a bottle, CSS on a retina screen, one colour on a delivery note. It survives contact with reality.
What we make.
A brand is a set of decisions made once and applied ten thousand times. We design the decisions, and write down the judgement for when the rules bend.
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Naming & verbal identity
Names you can defend to a board, and a voice people recognise without the logo.
02
Logo & identity systems
Marks drawn on a grid and tested from favicon to facade before you sign.
03
Typography
Type direction and custom type briefs. One voice at every size.
04
Art direction
An image language your photographers and illustrators can follow.
05
Motion identity
How the brand moves on screen, in product and in launch films.
06
Guidelines & toolkits
Written for the people who make the work, with every asset ready to send.
How it goesConsultation → launch · 5 phases · zero surprises
Week 001
Discovery
We talk to the people who sell it, support it and buy it, not only the people who own it. The best clues are on the support line.
→Strategy on one page, positioning in a sentence
Weeks 1–202
Naming & voice
If the name needs work, you get a few routes with real rationale attached. Then the voice: the words the company uses when nobody is designing them.
→Name, tone of voice, and the lines that prove it
Weeks 2–503
Drawing the identity
Three routes, drawn properly and applied to real things. You see them at favicon size and on a building before you choose.
→The chosen system: mark, type, palette, rules
Weeks 5–704
Guidelines & toolkit
What is fixed, what flexes, and the judgement calls written down. Plus every asset, correctly named and ready to send.
→Guidelines and an asset library
Ongoing05
Rollout support
We stay for the awkward middle: the deck, the packaging run, the trade-show stand. That is where identities usually fall apart.
→On-call production support while it lands
Working with usThe fine print, in bold
The part other studios keep vague.
Working with us is deliberately unexciting in all the ways that matter. Here is exactly what you can hold us to.
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Three routes, not thirty
You choose between finished directions, never a haystack of sketches.
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Decision meetings
Choices are made in a room with the thinking attached, not over endless email threads.
03
Built to be used
The judgement calls are written down, so your team keeps it honest without us.
Not sure where your project fits? Book the call. Half an hour, no charge, and we’ll tell you honestly if we’re the right office for it.
Fair questions.
The things people usually ask on the first call. If yours is not here, ask us.
Often not. Many projects are a refresh: keep the equity, fix what breaks at small sizes and on screen. We will tell you which you need on the first call.
Yes, with trademark screening alongside your lawyers and domain checks before anything reaches your shortlist.
You do, on delivery: source files, font licences arranged in your name, and every export.
We write the voice down precisely enough that your team, and your AI agents, can write on-brand without us.
Who we do it for.
Sectors where we know the buyers, the constraints and the shortcuts. If yours is not listed, the first call costs nothing.