Getting to know Design Studios 02

A brief overview of the other design studios I looked at today.

Hey Studios are a graphic design studio based in Barcelona Spain, specialising in brand identity, editorial design and illustration.
 

Their work identity revolves around geometry, color and direct typography. They work closely with our clients, big or small, in one-to-one relationships.

Sagmeister & Walsh are a NYC based design firm that creates identities, commercials, websites, apps, films, books and objects for clients, audiences and themselves. The company name represents Stefan Seigmaster, who has worked for famous music bands such as the Rolling Stones, and Jessica Walsh who has received multiple awards and distinctions, Zipeng Zhu a Chinese designer and animator, and Molly Brunk their project manager. 

Heydays is a Norweigan design agency based in Olso who help create visual identities and digital solutions. They work closely with their clients and utilise a well-developed network of other talented professionals to help carry out the project.

They have a noticeable Scandinavian identity throughout their work as seen the clean lines and minimalist aesthetic. 

LUST is a multidisciplinary graphic design practice established in 1996 by Jeroen Barendse, Thomas Castro, and Dimitri Nieuwenhuizen, based in The Hague, Netherlands. LUST works in a broad spectrum of media including traditional printwork and book design, abstract cartography and data-visualisations, new media and interactive installations, and architectural graphics. 

Along with their design studio they have LUSTlab, a really experimental entity where the research into the future of digital media lies in the design of its use. 

Studio Dumbar is an international design agency that is based in the Netherlands whilst having a liaison-office in Seoul. They have won number awards in highly regarded design competitions and have worked with high profile clientele such as Apple and Nike. Their scope of work mainly focuses on creating a visual identity for the client.

Build is an award winning creative agency who work with creative, design-led clients. Their portfolio of work range from branding & identity, editorials & print, art direction & design and interior spaces. 

Elmwood are a self acclaimed "most effective brand design company in the world", with offices in countries such as London, Singapore, Hong Kong and Melbourne. They are a design company to have made their own set of bespoke creative tools and have links with design consultancy Tin Horse and Tickety Boo an environmental consultancy. 

As their claim suggests, their portfolio of work is entirely branding and identity. Clientele ranging from food & beverage companies all the way to Law firms. 

Bleed is a multidisciplinary design studio based in Oslo and Vienna. Mixing both 2D and 3D works in their portfolio and interactions with social media.

Face is a "super modernist" design studio specialising in developing honest branding projects across the world aiming for work to stand the test of time. Based in Mexico, their work ranges from identity creation, branding and web design. Whats unique about Face is that the clients receive a a customized list of questions of which helps them understand what information is needed to help their project development and conceptualization.

Dessein is a design studio based in Perth, their work is clean, effective, modern and colourful whilst incorporating an illutrative style. A multi-cultural team makes for an interesting mix of talents where no one person is responsible for each individual task. 

 

Wolff Olins are all about making brand logo's last forever. They have global teams of designers, strategists, technologists, programme managers and educators who deliver meaningful change beyond their client's organisations. Most notably they created the logo for the 2012 London Olympic Games.

After looking at these design studios, there are a few similarities which run throughout. 

1. Design studios today have very small teams of designers. 
2. Most of them have a clean and minimal visual aesthetic. Often aiming to go flat in their designs, perhaps indicating or following the current trends in graphic design.
3. Effective communication with the client is a big selling point and is seen to be more personal than ever with some design studios offering one-to-one interaction. 
4. They produce their own work on the side and sell it online. 
5. Design studios can have a broad range of work within their portfolio's but add their own artistic identity to the final product.