Featured Studio
A studio is a set of habits
Ten years in, we have learned that culture is not a value on a wall. It is the small things a team does every week without being asked.
Journal
Notes on process, craft and running an independent studio.
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Process
Designing with constraints
Every good brief has a wall in it somewhere. The work gets interesting when you stop trying to climb it and start building against it.
Process
Why we prototype in the browser
Static mock-ups hide the questions that matter most on the web: how things load, move, reflow and break. So we build early.
Thinking
On restraint
Restraint is not minimalism. It is the discipline of knowing exactly what a piece of work needs — and having the confidence to stop there.
Thinking
Wayfinding is a conversation
What we learned designing signage for the Museum of Light & Matter: good wayfinding answers questions just before people ask them.
Studio
What we’re reading this autumn
Books on the studio shelf this season, from typography classics to essays on cities, craft and slowness.