Brand & digital design studio — Lisbon / London
Studio Ferro is a two-partner studio building identities, websites and packaging for founders and cultural organisations who would rather be clear than loud. Small team, senior hands, no account layer.
Est. 2016 · Independent
Identity · Web · Packaging
Currently booking Q3
Selected clients
Founders, museums, publishers, festivals.
NORTHSTAR
Halden
ferment&co.
ARBOR
Lumen
TIDE
Marrow Press
OKA·
Selected work
Identity · Stationery · Tone of voice
Packaging · Illustration
Identity · Wayfinding · Website
Website · Design system
Brand identity · Packaging · E-commerce
Campaign · Poster system
What we believe
Every brand we admire made a small number of hard choices early and kept making them. That is what we help you do — then we design the evidence.
Clarity beats cleverness
If a stranger cannot say what you do in one sentence after seeing the work, the work is not done.
Decisions, not decoration
A brand is the sum of choices a company makes in public. We design the choices first.
Senior hands only
Nothing is handed down to a junior you have never met. The people who pitch are the people who make.
Built to be run
Everything we hand over is designed for the team who inherits it — templates, systems, training.
Services
Most engagements combine two or three. Every one is led by a partner from first call to final file.
Positioning, naming, visual identity and the system that holds it all together.
We start with the hard question — why should anyone remember you? — and only then pick up a pencil. The result is an identity that works at a trailhead or a trade show, on a button or a building.
Fast, editorial websites and design systems your team can run without us.
We design and build marketing sites, e-commerce storefronts and the component libraries behind them — with content modelling, accessibility and performance treated as design decisions, not afterthoughts.
Structural and graphic packaging that earns the shelf and survives the shipping box.
From a single hero SKU to a 50-product range, we design packaging systems with real production constraints in mind — dielines, print methods, materials and the unboxing moment included.
Photography, film and campaign systems that keep the brand consistent at launch.
We art-direct shoots, write campaign lines and build the template kits that let in-house teams keep the quality up long after the launch week is over.
How we work
Roughly eleven weeks for a full identity. Shorter for a site, longer when packaging is involved.
Weeks 1–2
Interviews with founders, customers and the sceptics. We leave with a one-page brief everyone has signed, and a list of what the brand must never do.
Weeks 3–5
Positioning, narrative and two or three sharply different creative directions — shown as real artefacts, not mood boards, so decisions are easy.
Weeks 6–10
Identity, packaging, website — designed and built in the open with weekly reviews. You see everything; nothing is a reveal.
Week 11 →
Guidelines, templates and training so your team can run the brand. We stay close for the first ninety days, then step back.
Kind words
Sample testimonials — replace with your own
The first agency that asked what we would stop doing. The identity is the by-product of that conversation — and it has held up through two product launches without a single ‘can we tweak the logo’ meeting.
Mara Lindqvist
Co-founder, Northstar Outdoor Co.
Our visitors found their way around the building for the first time in forty years. The board understood the brand in one slide. I did not think both were possible in the same project.
Dr. Elin Haugen
Director, Halden Museum
Two people, every meeting, every file. We have worked with much bigger agencies and never felt this looked after — or shipped this fast.
Jonah Price
Founder, Ferment & Co.
Journal
Craft · 4 min read
Most identities fall apart at the box.
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Studio · 3 min read
How a two-person studio takes on museum-scale projects.
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Notes · 6 min read
A single “safe” route tells clients nothing.
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