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Colony and the Art of Knowing What Not to Design
The Los Angeles studio built its reputation by making brands unmistakable. Its more interesting habit is deciding, before a single logo moves, whether design is the problem at all.
The Design Firm That Kept Changing the Canvas
Visible Design spent three decades doing something unfashionably useful: following a company’s message wherever it needed to go - from a logo to a trade-show wall to a technical diagram.
Ueno sold to Twitter. Then the itch came back.
Halli Thorleifsson built a design agency for the companies on your home screen, sold it, and started again. The second Ueno is betting on fewer clients - and a very human reason to make things.
Study Hall gives brands a life beyond the logo
A search bar enters the Upside Down. A security company learns to loosen its tie. Inside the Oakland studio that designs what brands do, as well as how they look.
un studio en plus makes the brand leave the brand book
A PDF template, a fountain-pen website, a room full of animated artwork. The Querétaro studio’s work asks a practical question: what happens when a brand has to do something?
YOLO: a software reel, a rap identity, and a painted monkey
Inside the early portfolio of a Washington-area design studio that put corporate software, music branding, and hand-painted experiments on the same workbench.
BLOSS makes the complicated city readable
A museum has six entrances. A transit agency has a growing cast of communicators. BLOSS builds the graphics, stories and systems that help people find their way in.
YYES knows what a brand should keep
A 1925 letterhead, a Hollywood agency’s orange, a restaurant meal packed for the journey home: YYES finds new uses for familiar things. Inside the design studio that asks what a business should carry forward.
PS Design knows a logo can’t fix a confused company
Before the new colors came the awkward questions. Inside the California studio turning company identities into systems people can actually use - and sometimes unwrap.
Play SF makes complicated companies easier to understand
A neuroscience textbook, a brewery’s restless patterns and 50 websites for Figma reveal how the San Francisco design studio turns technical ideas into things people can actually use.
Moniker Makes the Logo the Beginning
From Coinbase to Dallas soccer, the San Francisco identity studio builds the rules behind a recognizable brand. Its most revealing work begins where the logo presentation usually ends.
Elever wants to design itself out of your daily to-do list
The digital studio pairs brand and interface design with a promise of client independence. Its most interesting deliverable may be what happens after the handoff.
Nice People Has a Sharp Eye for Brands - and Bad Bosses
Amber Asay built a design studio around the people she wanted to work with. Its portfolio, from Poosh to survivor-made gifts, shows how a friendly brief can produce work with teeth.
Antoine Pitrou
Antoine Pitrou is a Paris-trained product designer based in San Francisco who turns complex digital problems into elegant, simple experiences. As the Founder and CEO of Hayes Studio and co-founder of SYLAPS (a browser-based video collaboration platform), he has shaped product design across fintech, legaltech, and SaaS - including a notable tenure as Senior Product Designer at Human Interest, the 401(k) platform redefining retirement savings for small businesses.
Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
Philipp Dettmer is the founder, CEO, and head writer of Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell, the Munich-based animation studio and YouTube channel with over 25 million subscribers and 3.6 billion views. Starting as a university passion project in 2013, Kurzgesagt has grown into a 70-person studio that transforms dense scientific, philosophical, and technological ideas into visually stunning, widely-shared short films. Dettmer is also the author of 'Immune: A Journey Into the Mysterious System That Keeps You Alive' (2021) and co-creator of the video game Star Birds, launched in early access in September 2025.