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The studio

Twelve people, one railway arch.

The people who will be in your meetings, and what each of them does.

  • Nadia Okonkwo reviewing blank identity proofs at a plywood trestle in the Foundry studio

    Nadia Okonkwo

    Founder & Creative Director

    Started Foundry in the arch in 2016 with one client and a borrowed guillotine. Still writes the first line of every brief.

    Since
    2016
    Focus
    Identity, art direction
  • Ines Ferreira sorting interview cards across a blank strategy sheet in the Foundry studio

    Ines Ferreira

    Strategy Director

    Turns nine weeks of interviews into one sentence a board can repeat without reading it off a card.

    Since
    2018
    Focus
    Positioning, naming
  • Milo Vance checking an abstract type proof with a loupe and metal ruler in the Foundry studio

    Milo Vance

    Design Director

    Draws in Figma, thinks in letterpress. Owns every argument about the baseline grid, and usually wins.

    Since
    2019
    Focus
    Logotype, layout
  • Priya Raman arranging printed component sheets and material cards at a Foundry trestle table

    Priya Raman

    Principal Engineer

    Ships the design system the same week it is signed off, then deletes the parts nobody used.

    Since
    2021
    Focus
    Design systems, front-end
  • Callum Reid handling cut letterform shapes and blank storyboard cards in the Foundry studio

    Callum Reid

    Type & Motion

    Custom letterforms, and the six frames of motion that make them behave the same on every screen.

    Since
    2022
    Focus
    Lettering, motion
  • Sofia Brandt placing a blank schedule card on the Foundry studio production wall

    Sofia Brandt

    Studio Director

    Keeps four projects, twelve people and one very old kettle running, in roughly that order of difficulty.

    Since
    2020
    Focus
    Production, print
Two members of the studio pinning blank rust and grey paper sheets to the brick wall of a converted railway arch, seen from behind, with a long plywood trestle table carrying paper rolls and drawing tools

Arch 41, Bermondsey, on a Thursday. The other six run production, front-end and the print desk. You meet whichever of the twelve your project needs on the first call.

The studio

We sell the twenty minutes after the reveal.

Most studios sell process — a diagram with five arrows and a word like immersion in the middle of it.

We sell the twenty minutes after the reveal, when the room goes quiet and somebody finally says: that's us. Everything before it is in service of that moment — the interviews, the three hundred rejected wordmarks, the argument about the baseline grid that ran until nine on a Thursday.

We are twelve people in a railway arch. We take four projects at a time, which means the person who pitched your work is the person who draws it. There is no new business team. There is Nadia, and she answers her own email.

Open roles

Two seats, and a kettle that needs replacing.

We hire slowly, reply within a week, and pay for any take-home test.

  • Permanent£58–68k

    Senior Brand Designer

    London · Arch 41, four days in

    You will lead identity work from week one, present it yourself, and draw more than you deck. We are looking for someone whose portfolio has one project they are still slightly angry about.

    Apply for this role
  • Permanent£65–78k

    Design Engineer

    Remote · UK or EU timezone

    React, Tailwind and strong opinions about type rendering. You will own the design systems we ship to clients, and the tooling that keeps six of them from drifting apart.

    Apply for this role

No agencies, and no speculative work as part of an application. If nothing here fits, write to jobs@foundry.studio anyway — two of the twelve arrived that way.

New business

Tell us what you're building.

Bring the messy version — the half-finished deck, the name you are not sure about, the site you have stopped showing people. We will tell you honestly whether we are the right studio for it, and who is if we are not.

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Within one working day
First call
30 minutes, no deck
Currently booking
From November, two slots