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.

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Identity

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

Product interface

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

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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What the Acid Graphics style is doing

Acid graphics is the one style here that is allowed to be ugly. The headline is skewed about five degrees, cards are offset by a fixed 6px rather than a random amount, and the palette is lime, magenta and black with nothing in between. The offset has to be systematic: once it becomes random, the page stops reading as a style and starts reading as a rendering bug.

The headline is skewed by a fixed angle, not a random one

Card offsets are identical everywhere, 6px

Three colours only: lime, magenta, black

Stylesheet

164 lines · 37 rules

Typeface

system fonts only

Built with

fixed skew · 6px offsets · three colours

Where it breaks: It is hostile to reading by design; using it for anything longer than a promotional block will lose most of the audience in the first paragraph.