We build brandsthat behavelike products
Vantage is a fifteen-person studio working with founders and in-house teams on identity, product design and the systems that keep both consistent long after launch.
Brand identity
Design systems
Product design
Motion
Art direction
Packaging
- Halcyon Foods
- Nortide
- Ferrous Bank
- Studio Anser
- Palewater
- Kestrel Health
- Aureli
- Mornsound
Nine years of shipping, four we can show
Every engagement ends with a system somebody else can run without us. These are the ones the clients let us publish.
Four things, done properly
We are deliberately narrow. Anything outside this list we will happily recommend someone better for.
01
Brand identity
Naming, marks, type, colour and the written rules that keep them intact when we are not in the room.
Naming & narrative
Identity system
Guidelines
Asset library
02
Design systems
Component libraries your engineers actually adopt, because we build them with your engineers rather than for them.
Token architecture
Component library
Documentation
Adoption support
03
Product design
End-to-end interface work — research, flows, screens and the unglamorous states everyone else skips.
Discovery
Flows & prototypes
UI design
Handoff
04
Motion & art direction
How the brand moves, shoots and sounds. The layer that turns a static identity into something people recognise.
Motion principles
Art direction
Photography
Templates
Six weeks, four moments
Most engagements run six to ten weeks. The shape rarely changes.
Week 1
Immersion
We read everything, talk to your customers and come back with the uncomfortable version of what we found.
Week 2–3
Territories
Three genuinely different directions, each taken far enough to judge. No safe middle option padding the deck.
Week 4–5
Build
The chosen route gets built out across every surface it will actually live on — not just the hero shot.
Week 6
Handover
Systems, files and a working session with the team who inherit it. We stay reachable after.
Fifteen people, no account layer
You work with the people doing the work. There is no team behind the team.
Ines Barros
Founder, Creative Director
Tomas Reiner
Design Director
Adaeze Okonkwo
Systems Lead
Ruben Castellanos
Motion Director
Mei Sasaki
Strategy
Joris Vandal
Producer
“We had been through two agencies who gave us a logo and a shrug. Vantage gave us a system our engineers could build against on day one, and eighteen months later nobody has quietly forked it.”
Dana Okafor
VP Design, Ferrous Bank
We take four projects a quarter
Two slots left for the coming quarter. Tell us what you are working on and we will tell you honestly whether we are the right studio for it.