Story About Us
We are a small studio working across identity, product photography and interiors. Every project starts the same way: a long conversation, a narrow brief, and a plan we can both hold each other to.
Nine people, one room, and a preference for doing fewer things properly. We take on eight to ten engagements a year.
Selected Work .
Nine recent engagements, from single product shoots to full identity programmes.
Planning
A written brief before any design starts, so nobody is guessing at the scope.
Take Action
Three rounds, each narrower than the last. We commit early and refine.
Deliver On Time
Dates are agreed once and kept. If something slips, you hear it from us first.
Meet People Behind
Our Success .
Four of the nine. The rest you will meet if we work together — we do not run accounts through people you never speak to.
Jeanette Kingston
Alan Cooper
John Smithy
Peter Sandler
Recent Notes .
Occasional writing on process, materials and the work we admire.
On choosing one typeface
Most identity systems fail because they carry three faces where one would do the work.
Paper is a colour decision
Stock changes ink more than ink changes stock. We test before we specify.
What a snag list is for
The last two per cent of an interior is where the reputation lives.
What Clients Say .
They asked harder questions than anyone we had briefed before, and the work was better for it. The guidelines are still holding two years on.
Small studio, no account layer, no surprises on the invoice. We have moved three more projects across since.