Fig. 1, 2
Proof for Ostra Type Foundry / platform sign, Linea Regional Rail
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Selected work
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How we work
Most of a project is decided in the first two weeks. We spend them with you: reading, visiting, printing early drafts and pinning them to a wall.
Then we make fewer things, better. One idea, followed all the way to the label on the back of the box.
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What we make
A
Names, marks and the systems around them, drawn to survive a fax, a stamp and a facade.
Strategy / Naming / Marks / Type / Guidelines
B
Products, packaging and printed matter. Things people hold, open, keep or throw away.
Product / Packaging / Print / Books
C
Signage, wayfinding and exhibitions. Graphics that work at walking pace and in bad light.
Wayfinding / Exhibitions / Interiors
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Websites and type specimens that behave like good print: quick, legible and calm.
Websites / Specimens / Motion
Years
Projects shipped
People
Repeat clients
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Recognition
2025
Certificate of Excellence
Annual Type Review
Ostra Type Foundry
2025
Gold, Wayfinding
Public Space Prize
Linea Regional Rail
2024
Shortlist, Identity
North Sea Design Awards
Halde Ceramics
2024
Best Designed Book
Book Design Prize
Atlas of Small Rooms
2024
Silver, Health and Care
Pack Prize
Ferro Apothecary
2023
Object of the Year
Object Award
Morrow One
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Journal
Process
Every identity we show a client has been printed, folded and carried around the studio for a week first.
Wayfinding
Good wayfinding is mostly deletion. Notes from a year of timing commuters at Linea's stations.
Studio
A tittle is the dot over an i. Our accent colour does the same job: small, exact, and only where it is needed.