A DESIGN STUDIO FOR COMPANIES THAT STAND OUT
+212% Launch pre-orders
Halo Audio identity launch
+64% App store ratings
Verdant Bank money app
-60% Packaging plastic
Juniper & Co. refills
+118% Active club members
Pulse Run Club motion
+200% Retail stockists
Fieldhouse Coffee
Kitebound
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The studio
An independent brand and digital design studio in Bristol, helping growth-stage brands look as bold as they act. 310+ launches since 2013.
One senior team per client, from the first call to launch day and beyond.
Identity, product and motion
What we do
Brand, product and motion design for growth-stage companies that refuse to be ignored.
Strategy, naming support, marks, type and voice for companies on the move, built as one system that holds up at every size and on every screen.
( How we help )Strategy Workshops
Identity Systems
Type & Lettering
Print & Brand Guidelines
Apps, platforms and dashboards people actually enjoy using, shaped in weekly sessions and tested with real users.
( How we help )UX Audits & Flows
UI Design Systems for Products
Clickable Prototyping
Dashboard UI Kits
Logo animation, product films and social loops that give your brand a pulse, delivered as a kit your team can keep using.
( How we help )Logo Animation Systems
3D Animation
Social Motion Templates
Product Films & Explainers
Marketing sites designed and developed in-house, so the idea you signed off is exactly the site that goes live.
( How we help )Webflow Websites
Shopify Storefronts
Campaign Pages
Selected work
Recent work we're proud of
Halo Audio
A loud new identity and launch campaign for a headphone start-up. Brand and campaign, 2025: pre-orders up 212%.
Verdant Bank
A calmer money app and site for first-time savers. UX/UI and web build, 2025: app ratings up 64%.
Juniper & Co.
Refill-first packaging and a brand system for a botanical skincare line. Packaging, 2024: 60% less plastic.
Pulse Run Club
An app and motion kit that turned weekly runs into a movement. Motion and UX/UI, 2024: members up 118%.
How we work
Four steps from first call to a brand that ships
Every project runs the same way, with one senior team from the first call to launch day. No big reveals and no hand-offs to juniors: we work with you each week, test as we go, and design everything to be built, measured and improved once it is live.
Discover
A two-week deep dive into your business. We interview your team and customers, audit what you have and agree the goals that will tell us the work has landed.
Define
We turn what we learned into strategy and early concepts, then narrow them to one clear direction. You leave this stage knowing what we are building and why it will work.
Design
Identity, product and site come together in weekly working sessions with your team. You see progress every week, so there are no surprise reveals and no wasted rounds.
Launch
We ship it, measure how it performs and keep improving alongside your team. Launch day is a starting line: the brand, product and site keep getting sharper after go-live.
Thirteen years of helping bold brands become impossible to ignore
Years designing brands, products and sites
Projects launched for brands on the move
Design awards won for our clients' work
[ 4.9/5 rating ]
Kind words
They gave our small team a brand that looks like a market leader. People trusted us before hearing a single track, and pre-orders tripled.
Priya Nair
Founder at Halo
Design sessions every week and no big reveals. We ended up with a money app our savers actually describe as calm, and ratings rose 64% after launch.
Marcus Bell
Head of Product at Verdant Bank
Our refill packaging now sells itself on the shelf, and it cut the plastic across our whole skincare range by 60%.
Elena Rossi
CEO of Juniper & Co.
Their motion kit made every weekly run feel like an event. Our app finally felt alive, and the club doubled in a single season.
Sam Adeyemi
Co-founder at Pulse Run Club
A bag system and shop identity that took us from one counter to supermarket shelves. Our retail stockists tripled within the first year.
Tom Hartley
Founder at Fieldhouse Coffee
Designed and built in-house, our new site went live in six weeks and won Site of the Day. It still loads fast everywhere.
Nadia Cruz
Marketing Lead at Arcwise
Field notes
Latest thinking from the studio
Short reads from our designers, strategists and developers on brand, product and craft. What we learn on live projects, written up so you can use it on yours.
12 Sep 2026
Why bold brands win trust
Ada Okafor on why a confident identity wins trust faster than a safe one, and the small decisions that make all the difference.
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28 Aug 2026
Designing calm money apps
Jonah Price on money apps that lower the heart rate: fewer choices, kinder words and numbers you can read at a glance.
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14 Aug 2026
Motion as brand asset
Mina Sato on treating motion as part of the brand system, with rules, timing and character, not a final coat of polish.
Read articleAwards and recognition
27 design awards so far, each one shared with a client who trusted us to be bold.
Halo Audio — Brand of the Year
Northern Design Index, 2025. A loud colour-per-product identity and launch campaign for a headphone start-up that refused to look grey.
Verdant — Best Fintech Interface
Pixel Ledger Awards, 2025. For Verdant Bank: a calmer money app and website built around first-time savers.
Juniper & Co. — Packaging Gold
Shelf Craft Packaging Prize, 2024. Refill-first packaging and a botanical brand system that cut plastic by 60% across the range.
Pulse Run Club — Motion Honour
Frame Forward, 2024. An app and motion kit that turned weekly runs into a movement and grew the club's members by 118%.
