Essays, field notes and studio letters on type, paper, places and the slow work of making things legible.
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Process
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The brief we returned, with notes
A client sent us sixty pages. We sent back one, annotated in red. It became the best project of our year.
Studio
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Why every identity starts as a letter
Before logos, colours or grids, we write the client a letter. Here is what it teaches us, and why we never skip it.
Field notes
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What a bakery taught us about signage
Forty years of flour on a door frame, and a sign that was never meant to be read from across the street.
Essay
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Colour, measured in afternoons
Our palettes are not picked from swatches. They are recorded between two and five o’clock, on site, in pencil.
Studio
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Notes from the Kyoto desk
Six months, one desk and a lot of paper: what opening a second studio on the other side of the world changed about how we work.
Vellum Studio
Est. MMXII
Made slowly, read closely.
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Setting the type
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Setting the type