01 / STUDIO REEL

Fierce ideas.Fluent execution.

Branding, digital product, and editorial design for founders who refuse to blend in.

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02 / CASE — NORTHGATE

Motion isthe material.

We rebuilt Northgate's identity from sketch to shipping in eleven weeks — and the category hasn't looked the same since.

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03 / MANIFESTO

Nothing safeever moved a room.

We build brands the way editors build covers — stop you mid-scroll, or don't bother printing.

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BRANDING ✦ DIGITAL ✦ MOTION ✦ EDITORIAL ✦ STRATEGY ✦ PACKAGING ✦ CAMPAIGNS ✦

PHILOSOPHY / 01

Friction isthe feature.

Safe work is invisible work. We start every engagement by asking which received ideas we're allowed to break — and then we break them on the record. That's how the brands we ship end up on the covers we studied growing up.

SELECTED WORK / 2024

Projects the roomcouldn't ignore.

Three recent engagements across spirits, apparel, and independent publishing — each shipped end-to-end with a team of five or fewer.

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NORTHGATE SPIRITS — Packaging + Digital

A ninety-year-old distillery rebuilt from label to launch campaign. First quarter saw a 42% lift in on-premise velocity across three markets.

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KENETH ATHLETIC — Brand refresh

A performance apparel label, reset for a new generation of distance runners. Shipped across web, retail, and campaign in eight weeks.

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RIOTHOUSE PRESS — Identity + Web

An independent publisher launching their first editorial imprint. One site, one type system, three print issues live by quarter's end.

MANIFESTO / 02

Quiet designdies quiet.

We started Voltage in 2019 because too many studios were shipping polite work for impolite markets. Restraint has its place — a pharmaceutical inlay, a tax form. Not a brand launch. Not a founder's first shot at a category.

Six years in, we still run small — four partners, a rotating cast of collaborators, and a single rule: the people who pitch the work are the people shipping the work. No junior ghosts. No handoffs that lose the point between the deck and the dev build.

Every engagement starts the same way. Tell us what the safe version of the work looks like, and we’ll show you what you’re actually paying for instead.

SERVICES / 03

What we ship.

Four practices, one team. Engaged together, shipped end-to-end.

01

Brand identity

NAMING / LOGOTYPE / TYPE SYSTEMS / GUIDELINES

02

Digital product

UX / UI / DESIGN SYSTEMS / FRONTEND BUILD

03

Editorial design

PRINT / CAMPAIGN / CONTENT / LAYOUT

04

Motion & film

ANIMATION / FILM / LOOPS / TRANSITIONS

PROJECTS SHIPPED

Across spirits, apparel, publishing, and tooling.
48

COUNTRIES REACHED

Clients headquartered from Lisbon to São Paulo to Tokyo.
12

CLIENT RETENTION

Of engagements that return for a second round within twelve months.
92%

ESTABLISHED

Independent, employee-owned, and not for sale.
2019

CLIENTS / ON RECORD

Words from theoperators.

Founders and heads of brand on what it felt like to ship with Voltage.

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Priya Menon

Head of Brand · Northgate Spirits
They refused to give us a polite brand. We needed impolite. The numbers followed six weeks after launch and haven't reversed since.
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Daniel Okafor

Founder · Fieldnote Press
Three weeks into the engagement we killed our old logo and never looked back. That one decision paid for the rest of the work.

NEXT / 05

Let's make somethingimpossible to ignore.

Tell us the shape of the work. We'll come back inside two business days with a point of view and a first step.

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VOLTAGE / STUDIO

Brands builtto outlast the scroll.

Independent creative studio. Six partners, a dozen collaborators, one standing rule: ship work the safe studios couldn't.

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