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Selected work

Thirty-one companies. Four we can show you properly.

The constraint we were handed, what we made, and what happened after.

  1. 01

    2026

    Three painted aluminium livery panels in rust and graphite laid beside a folded carriage elevation drawing and an open paint-chip fan
    Livery panels, carriage elevation, paint standards

    Halcyon Rail

    Overnight rail · Zürich

    • Naming
    • Identity
    • Wayfinding
    Duration
    11 weeks
    Team
    • Nadia Okonkwo · Founder & Creative Director
    • Ines Ferreira · Strategy Director
    • Milo Vance · Design Director
    Constraint
    The livery had to fit the coachbuilder's fixed panel spec.

    The brief

    Europe's first all-night sleeper network had eleven weeks, four operating territories and a working title on a spreadsheet, Project Nightjar, that legal had already refused twice. The first carriages were in the paint shop before the name existed.

    What we made

    A name that cleared a trademark screen in four jurisdictions, a livery system drawn to the coachbuilder's panel spec rather than to a moodboard, and wayfinding that has to work at 03:40 for someone who has just woken up and cannot find the buffet car.

    Berth bookings, first quarter
    +34%
    Brief to painted carriage
    11 wks
    Stations rebadged
    9
    • Name
    • Trademark screening
    • Logotype
    • Livery system
    • Wayfinding
    • Ticketing UI
  2. 02

    2025

    Two cloth-bound ledgers stacked beside a folded rust paper wrap, a bone folder and a spool of linen thread
    Cloth binding, courier wrap, hand tools

    Marlow & Kite

    Bookbinding · Clerkenwell, London

    • Identity
    • E-commerce
    • Packaging
    Duration
    10 weeks
    Team
    • Nadia Okonkwo · Founder & Creative Director
    • Milo Vance · Design Director
    • Sofia Brandt · Studio Director
    Constraint
    The hand-drawn 1984 wordmark had to remain.

    The brief

    Forty-one years of hand-bound ledgers, a trade counter that shut at five, and a website that took payment by emailing an invoice the next morning. Two thirds of the enquiries arrived after ten at night, from people who were never going to make it to Clerkenwell.

    What we made

    We kept the 1984 wordmark. It was drawn by hand and it is better than anything we would have made. We rebuilt everything around it: a second type system, a packaging range that survives a courier, and a shop that takes money at midnight.

    Of revenue online, from 12%
    61%
    Average order value
    2.4×
    Wordmark redrawn, not replaced
    1984
    • Identity extension
    • Type system
    • Packaging
    • Store build
    • Product copy

    “They redrew a wordmark my grandfather commissioned in 1984, and it somehow still looks like ours.”

    Priya Marlow · Managing Director, Marlow & Kite
  3. 03

    2025

    A stack of printed component spec sheets showing empty layout frames, with a rust index tab and a mechanical pencil
    Component specs, token index, migration notes

    Verity Health

    Clinical software · Leeds

    • Design system
    • Front-end
    Duration
    12 weeks
    Team
    • Ines Ferreira · Strategy Director
    • Milo Vance · Design Director
    • Priya Raman · Principal Engineer
    Constraint
    Four products had to migrate without pausing releases.

    The brief

    Four products, eleven engineering teams, and three competing button components that all answered to the same name. Nothing shared could ship without a fortnight of reconciliation, and the previous attempt at a system was a ninety-page PDF nobody opened twice.

    What we made

    Tokens first, in the repo, versioned. Then components, then documentation that lives beside the code instead of in a design tool. We wrote the migration codemods too, because a system nobody can adopt is a slide deck with better spacing.

    Teams on one system
    11
    Releases to feature parity
    2
    Duplicate components retired
    312
    • Token set
    • Component library
    • Codemods
    • Docs site
    • Team handover
  4. 04

    2024

    Five archival prints fanned across a bench with cotton handling gloves, a rust filing card and the corner of a grey archive box
    Archive prints, handling kit, rights cards

    Northbank Press

    Publishing · Manchester

    • Website
    • Editorial
    • Front-end
    Duration
    12 weeks
    Team
    • Sofia Brandt · Studio Director
    • Milo Vance · Design Director
    • Priya Raman · Principal Engineer
    Constraint
    Rights terms had to travel with every archive record.

    The brief

    A ninety-year archive, forty thousand photographs, plates and features, sat on a server that two people knew how to search, and one of them had retired. The publisher was paying to store an asset it had no way to sell.

    What we made

    An editorial platform that treats the archive as inventory: everything catalogued, everything searchable, rights and licence terms attached to the record rather than kept in a filing cabinet down the corridor. The public site is the shop window; the licensing desk is the business.

    Pieces catalogued
    40,000
    Of revenue from licensing, year two
    18%
    Revenue line created
    3rd
    • Editorial site
    • Archive search
    • Rights model
    • CMS
    • Front-end build

All thirty-one

Companies since 2016
31
Median engagement
7 wks
Work from referral
94%

Twenty-seven more since 2016. A third are under NDA, a third are three-week naming jobs that do not survive being written up, and the rest we would rather show you than describe. Ask on the first call and we will open the folder.

Thirty-one companies since 2016, eight of them twice

  • Halcyon Rail
  • Marlow & Kite
  • Verity Health
  • Northbank Press
  • Aldous Coffee
  • Tessellate
  • Field & Furrow
  • Ostrom Capital

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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First call
30 minutes, no deck
Currently booking
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