Studio — about & services
A small, senior studio for brands and products that need identity, motion and code to arrive as one thing. You work directly with the people who design and build it — no account layer, no hand-offs to strangers.
Most studios hand identity to one team, motion to another and the build to a third. We keep all three in the same room, so the idea survives contact with the browser.
That's the whole pitch. A mark that was designed knowing how it will move. An animation system that was written with the component library open. A launch site that ships with the same timing curves as the film. Fewer translations, fewer compromises, and a result that feels authored rather than assembled.
How we work
Interviews with the people who'll live with the work, a teardown of what exists, and an honest read of the constraints: budget, tech, politics, deadline.
Output — A one-page brief we both sign off
Two or three distinct directions, each shown moving and in context — on a phone, in a deck, on a poster — never as a static moodboard.
Output — One chosen direction, with reasons
The direction becomes a system: type, colour, grid, motion principles and components, pressure-tested against your real content rather than lorem ipsum.
Output — Design system, motion language, prototypes
Designers and developers work in the same files. Weekly builds you can click, accessibility and performance budgets checked as we go, not at the end.
Output — Production code and assets
We ship with you, watch what happens, then tune. Every handover includes guidelines and a recorded walkthrough so your team can carry it on without us.
Output — Launch, guidelines, handover session
What we do
Marks, type and rules that hold together from a favicon to a billboard, and keep holding as the brand grows.
Animation with intent: timing, easing and choreography that explain the product instead of decorating it.
Production front-end with the craft left in — responsive, accessible, and fast enough to feel invisible.
WebGL, shaders and particle systems for the moments a static page can't carry.
One idea carried across sites, films and social, so every touchpoint reads as the same voice.
Ways to work
A single, sharply defined problem: a launch moment, a motion language, a prototype to win internal buy-in.
A new identity, a website, or both — scoped up front with a fixed fee and clear milestones.
Teams that ship constantly and want a senior design and motion partner on call, without hiring one.
Who you'll work with
Founder, creative director · Lisbon
Led identity work in-house and at agencies for a decade before deciding she'd rather make fewer things, better. Draws everything by hand first.
Motion director · London
Came up cutting title sequences. Thinks in curves and frame counts, and will happily argue about a 40ms ease for an afternoon.
Technical director · London
Front-end engineer who cares about the last 10%: focus states, reduced motion, first paint. Keeps the whole studio honest about performance.
Real-time & shaders · Lisbon
Former games graphics programmer. Builds the things people ask "is that a video?" about. It usually isn't.
They were the first team who showed us the logo moving before they showed it standing still. That changed how our whole company talked about the brand.
We got designers who understood the codebase and developers who cared about the kerning. Launch week was the calmest we've ever had.
Recognition & press
Before you ask
Most of our work sits between a three-week sprint and a four-month identity-plus-website project. If your budget is below our starting points, tell us anyway — we can often suggest a smaller first step that makes sense.
No. About half our clients are elsewhere in Europe and North America. We keep at least four hours of overlap with your working day and travel for kick-offs when it helps.
Yes, often. We regularly extend an existing identity into motion or build on top of a design system someone else started. We'll say plainly if we think something needs rethinking first.
You do. On final payment, all rights in the work we create for you transfer to you, including source files and code. Licensed fonts and third-party assets stay under their own licences, and we'll list them clearly.
Projects are fixed-fee against an agreed scope, invoiced in stages. Partnerships are a monthly retainer. We don't bill hourly, and we don't add surprise line items — if scope changes, we agree it in writing first.
We usually book four to eight weeks ahead. Sprints can sometimes start sooner. The contact form asks about your timeline so we can be straight with you from the first reply.
Tell us what you're making and when it needs to exist. You'll hear back from a person on the team within two working days.
or write to hello@offform.com