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Northline Studio

Brand & product design — Oslo / Berlin

We design the parts people actually touch.

A two-person studio working with founders on identity, product interfaces, and the systems that keep them consistent as the team grows.

01

Identity

Naming, wordmarks, and the rules that keep a brand recognisable at 16 pixels and on a billboard.

02

Product interface

Onboarding, dashboards, and the flows that decide whether someone stays past the first session.

03

Design systems

Tokens, components, and documentation your engineers will actually keep using after we leave.

They rebuilt our onboarding in six weeks. Activation went up 34% and support tickets halved.
Mira Halvorsen — CEO, Tally

Two slots open for Q1.

Tell us what you are building and where it is stuck.

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About this preview

What the Maximalism / Collage style is doing

Maximalism is not randomness. Each card here is rotated by a fixed, small amount that differs per card, the background is a repeating diagonal stripe, and the type mixes a display serif with a mono label. The composition only holds because the rotations are small and consistent and the palette is limited to four colours — remove either constraint and it reads as a broken layout instead of a busy one.

Stylesheet
156 lines · 38 rules
Typeface
system fonts only
Built with
fixed rotations · repeating stripes · four colours

Where it breaks: Scannability drops to almost nothing. Fine for a poster or a landing hero, unusable for anything a person has to operate.