Getting to know people - Design Studios

AH-HA

• Established in 2011 by Carolina Cantante and Catarina Carreiras
• Specialise in brand strategy, interior design, naming and identity work, advertising, new media, traditional and fine print, retail and product design, photography and illustration
• Studios based in Lisbon
  
  
  

Hey Studio

• Founded in 2007
• Made up of a team of 5
• Based in Barcelona
• Specialise in brand identity, editorial design and illustration
• Opened an online shop in 2014
• Worked with companies such as Apple, Vodafone, Three and Oxfam

Sagmeister and Walsh

• Based in New York
• Creates identities, commercials, websites, apps, films, books and objects for clients
• Both Sagmeister and Walsh work with Zipeng Zhu who is a Chinese designer living in New York

Hey Days

• Based in Oslo, Norway
• Specialise in logo, visual identity, web design and interface design
• Made up of a team of 6
• Mostly minimalistic/simple designs
• Commercially based
• Use social media as a way to broadcast their work and projects

Lust

• Founded in 1996 
• Based in The Hague, Netherlands
• Made up of a team of 16
• Specialise in print work and book design
• 'LUSTlab' is a a research lab in which they can experiment with different media and ideas

Studio Dumbar

• Founded in 1977 in The Hague
• Based in Rotterdam, Netherlands
• Specialise in visual branding and online branding
• Provides internships
• Office based in Seoul
• On average, they have 5 different nationalities of staff 

Build

• Originally based in London but recently relocated to Yorkshire in 2015
• Founded by Michael C. Place and Nicky Place in 2001 (married couple)
• Worked with the likes of made.com and Nike
• Specialises in brand identity
• Had their work published hundreds of times in magazines and books worldwide
• They have their own online shop
• They would like to open a physical shop
• Consists of 4 designers 

Elmwood

• Founded on the 1st January 1997
• They are a brand consultancy firm
• Create there own design tools
• Own their own tea and beer brand
• Based in New York, London, Singapore, Melbourne, Hong Kong and Leeds
• They mainly create contemporary designs

Bleed

• Based in Oslo and Vienna
• Won the European Design Awards
• They focus on identity
• They've worked with the likes of IKEA and Diesel
• Everything they create are inspired by the existing parts of their clients company 
• Identity and display are their priority

Face

• Founded in 2006
• Employ 10 designers
• Based in Monterrey, Mexico
• Specialise with web design and brand development
• They have designed for companies such as MySpace

Dessein

• Founded by Geoff Bickford and Tracy Kenworthy in Perth, Australia in 1987
• Specialises in branding, signage, websites, publication
• Their work is illustrative and they use photography in their packaging
• They have a team of diverse cultural background that consists of Italian, Indian and Korean

Wolff Olins

• Based in London, San Francisco, New York and Dubai
• Founded in 1965
• Founded by Michael Wolff and Wally Olins 
• Created the London 2012 Olympic logo
• Worked with companies such as EE, Skype and Cancer Research

Having not knowing any studios, I now have 12 studios that have created logo and brands that I already know but never knew created; such as who created the 2012 Olympic logo.