stage 01 — the method

Graphic Design Studio in Silver Lake, Los Angeles

Identity, packaging, publications, and everything else with your name on it.

The constraint we start from is not what a piece looks like in a portfolio. It is what it looks like on a shelf, at thumbnail size, after somebody who is not a designer has applied it for the fortieth time.

Design that only works when we do it is not finished design.

what this covers

questions

Do you work from an existing brand or start fresh?
Either. Stage 00 is where we establish which of the two the project actually needs.
Will I be able to apply this myself afterwards?
That is usually the goal. Where work will be applied by other people, we build a system of rules rather than a set of files.
Who will I actually be talking to?
The people doing the work. There is nobody in between.

work that used this stage

these are placeholder case studies — real projects replace them before launch

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Tell us what you're making. You will hear back from whoever would actually do the work, usually within one business day.

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