Today in groups we were asked to make a short presentation for a given design studio ours being 'AH HA Studio'. All of the different studios were spread across the Globe from New York to Australia. Additionally all of the studios were very small in size and worked closely with there clients to create extremely personal and high quality designs. In our presentation we were asked to awnser questions on what they do?, where are they based?, who their clients are? and what is there unique selling point?

AH HA Studio
For our presentation we all looked over there website and into their various projects and design styles. Below is our slides for the presentation.

 

Ah Ha Studio is a Lisbon founded design agency set up by Carolina Cantante and  Catarina Carreiras formed in 2011. There work is very editorial based and there is a real focus on using beautiful paper. There unique selling point is fact that the company was set up by two women which is fairly rare in the creative industry. There is a very large range of different mediums

 used throughout there different projects from interior designs, posters and leaflets.

Hey studios 

http://heystudio.es/

Hey Studio is a small studio from Barcelona Spain founded in 2007 specialising brand identity, editorial design and illustration. There designs are extremely punchy and minimal with flat bright colours.

They have had many top clients such as Coca Cola, Braun and MetroArea New York.

T shirt Books Posters

Brand identity editorial design and geometric

Apple, Vodafone, Three, Turkish Airlines, General Electric, Jeremy Maxwell Wintrebert, The Wall Street Journal, Mr. Porter, CBS, Film Commission Chile, Inditex, Fortune Magazine, Design Studio, Monocle, MACBA, CCCB, Penguin Random House and Oxfam. Colour is a huge influence in their work bright bold colour.

Small means better relationship with clients and gets to know them better.

Sagameister & Walshhttp://www.sagmeisterwalsh.com/ 

A New York Based studio four person operation mainly specialising in Art direction, 2d design, Branding and Editorial Design. Collaborating closely with photographers filmmakers and other designers. The design styling is very bright playful colours and really have a different feel to them.

Hey Days

http://heydays.no/

Norwegian design agency based in Oslo.

Has a very small team of just six people.

They really strive and challenge there designs and create their own identity Visual Design.

The design styling is muted and simple design very minimalist.

Lust

http://lust.nl/

Dutch design studio founded in 1996 The Hague Netherlands

The specialise in new media and architectural design. Blending the use of digital and tactile design methods to create powerful and detailed graphics there aspirations are to really push the boundaries of graphic design.

Studio Dumbar  

http://studiodumbar.com/work

The Hauge

Formed in 1977

The first international Design agency from the netherlands.

They have offices in South Korea and China and really create a extremely large range of brands. The work with a lot of Visual Branding and Online Branding and they really try and work with lots of non profit companies.

‘Our style is that we don't have a style’ Gert Dumbar

Build

http://wearebuild.com/

Orginally based in London then moved to yorkshire

Clients inculde 

Made.com

Nike

The design museum

They specialise in branding and identity

advertising but mainly typography based

They have a very small group of only 4 designers.

Elmwood

http://www.elmwood.com/

Worlds most effective brand design agency

that have a really huge range of clients.

Have there own Tea and Beer Brand

Based London New york Singapore

One of the leading companies in the world for Branding and Packaging.

Bleed

http://www.bleed.no/

Formed and based in Oslo Norway and Vienna Austria

Won the european design leader award 2015

There is a real focus on strong identity unique ideas and

expressive design. They create some brilliant visual

identity based on architectural design

Face

http://www.designbyface.com/

Face is a Mexico Based company formed in 2006

The design styling is mainly modernist design and there is a very powerful use of colour and shape throughout the designs and they have a very different and new feel to there work.

There work deals with branding across the world and work closely with local cultural community's

Super Modernist design studio specialised in

developing honest branding projects across the world.

Dessein

http://www.dessein.com.au/

A design studio based in Perth Australia.

They work with a large variety of signage design and branding. They use a lot of simplistic flat logos and designs. There motto is 'To effectively communicate with positive design outcomes which connect, engage and respond to target audiences.'

Wolff Olins

http://www.wolffolins.com/

Wally Olins & Micheal Wolff

There principles of there designs are to strive to making brands that last forever. They are a very world wide company based in London, San francisco and Dubai. They try to develop brand experience as much as possible. There clients including

Skype, EE and Aol.