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 Neo-Swiss style is doing

This takes the twelve-column grid and pushes the overlap further than the original Swiss style would allow: the headline spans one to nine, the lead starts at column seven, and the two are allowed to sit at different baselines. Red appears exactly twice. There are no shadows and no radii anywhere, so every edge is a decision about alignment rather than depth.

Headline and lead overlap across three columns on purpose

No shadows and no border radius on the whole page

Red appears exactly twice

Stylesheet

174 lines · 46 rules

Typeface

system fonts only

Built with

column overlap · no radius · red twice

Where it breaks: The overlap has to be re-authored per breakpoint; letting it collapse to a stack removes the only idea the layout has.