· OBSIDIAN STUDIO ·

Craft that holdsthe light.

A luxury brand and digital studio building refracted identities, obsidian-grade editorial systems, and interactive experiences for category leaders who ship at a higher standard.

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· IN RESIDENCE WITH ·

  • Aurelian
  • Halcyon
  • Prism
  • Lucent
  • Meridian
  • Obscura

· STUDIO MANIFESTO ·

We make workworth looking at twice.

Every brand we touch is an object. We obsess over its weight, its shadow, the way it refracts attention. The result is identity that reads across scale — from a cursor hover to a gallery wall — without losing its composure.

OBSIDIAN · STUDIO · SINCE · 2018 ·

· PRACTICES ·

Four disciplines.One signature.

Every engagement ships across strategy, identity, and code — composed by the same senior hands from kickoff to post-launch.

Brand strategy

Positioning, narrative, and systems of meaning. We build the argument before the first pixel — so the visual work has somewhere to land.

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Identity & typography

Wordmarks, type families, colour systems, and motion principles delivered as a single, scalable brand kernel — not fifty slide decks.

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Interactive build

Websites, configurators, and product surfaces shipped with engineers who code. Performance budgets, accessibility audits, and handovers included.

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· SELECTED WORK ·

Case files,refracted.

A reel of recent launches in fashion, hospitality, fintech, and arts — each shipped within a 90-day window with the founding team embedded alongside us.

Monitor displaying a web page design layout
Humanoid robot seated on a red bench
Abstract gradient waves in violet, cyan and orange
Earth's city lights from orbit
Hands using a stylus on tablet over design prints

· BY THE NUMBERS ·

Quiet metricsafter launch.

A sample of outcomes we've measured with partners across seven years of engagements — the numbers that hold up past the launch post.

Launches shipped

Production releases delivered end-to-end since 2018.
142

Average uplift

Median post-launch lift in our partners' north-star metric.
38%

Retained partners

Clients who've engaged us for two or more projects running.
92%

Industry awards

FWA, Awwwards, and The One Show recognitions over the last four years.
27

· HOW WE WORK ·

From kickoffto luminous launch.

A four-phase rhythm we've honed across seventy engagements. Lean, senior, and transparently priced — no handoffs to juniors you haven't met.

01 · Discover

Two weeks of interviews, audits, and audience work. We leave with a shared brief and a measurable outcome.

02 · Shape

Narrative, visual territory, and a working prototype — three routes that agree on strategy but diverge on voice.

03 · Craft

Identity system, digital surface, and production collateral. Designers and engineers sit on the same standup.

04 · Launch

Public release with an embedded 90-day window for iteration, measurement, and refinement.

· IN THEIR WORDS ·

Clients, on record.

Two voices from recent engagements — a hospitality group and a contemporary art gallery. Both live on the homepage we built for them.

Smiling woman with a messy bun in a white tee against a white wall

Léa Fontaine

Creative Director — Maison Lucent
Obsidian treated our relaunch as an object, not a project. Every typographic choice, every motion curve, every micro-interaction reads as a single luminous thing. Six months in, nothing has aged.
Smiling man in a white t-shirt

Rami Haddad

Managing Director — Volta Gallery
We needed an identity that could live on a poster, in a newsletter, and across three exhibition programmes without losing its voice. The team shipped on brief, on budget, and on a schedule you could set a watch to.
LET'S · BUILD · THE · NEXT · OBJECT ·

· NEXT COMMISSION ·

Build somethingthat lasts a decade.

We take one new engagement per quarter. Drop us a line with the shape of the work — we'll reply inside two business days with a point of view and a next step.

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