START A PROJECT
01 — COVER
DESCRIPTION
A studio for design and engineering systems. Every project is specified, dimensioned and toleranced before it ships.
DESIGN + ENGINEERING SYSTEMS
EST. 2019
SCALE 1:1 — SHEET 01 OF 06
02 — SELECTED CLIENTS
12 OF 40
Halcyon Instruments
BRAND SYSTEM · 2026
Northbank Refinery
IDENTITY · 2025
Ferrous
DESIGN SYSTEM · 2025
Kiln Works
SITE + EDITORIAL · 2024
Atlas Freight
BRAND + INTERFACE · 2024
Voltaic
DESIGN SYSTEM · 2026
Meridian Tooling
SPECIFICATION · 2024
Selkie
INTERFACE · 2023
Orford & Vale
IDENTITY · 2023
Pilcrow Press
EDITORIAL · 2023
Cobalt Yard
WAYFINDING · 2022
Ashgrove Labs
DOCUMENTATION · 2022
Selected work
03 — SELECTED WORK
06 RECORDS / 2024–2026
04 — DRAWING KEY / HOW TO READ A SHEET
NOTATION
1440.00 × 620.00 PX — NOTATION KEY
05 — PLATES
A.01
Halcyon Instruments
Brand system + site
2026
A.02
Northbank Refinery
Identity + wayfinding
2025
A.03
Ferrous
Product design system
2025
A.04
Kiln Works
Site + editorial
2024
A.05
Atlas Freight
Brand + interface
2024
A.06
Voltaic
Design system + docs
2026
06 — CAPABILITIES
TAP TO EXPAND
01
Brand systems
Marks, type systems, colour and the written rules that keep them intact once we hand them over.
02
Interface design
Product and marketing interfaces, specified down to state, spacing and motion before a line is written.
03
Design engineering
We build what we draw. Component libraries, design tokens and front-end that matches the drawing.
04
Documentation
The part everyone skips. Specimen sheets, usage rules and a build log your team can actually follow.
07 — BUILD LOG
TYPICAL ENGAGEMENT / 8 WEEKS
v0.1.0
WEEK 01
Survey
We read the business before we draw. Audit, stakeholder interviews, and a written brief you sign off.
SHIPPED
v0.4.0
WEEK 02–03
Specification
Sitemap, wireframes and the spec sheet. Every state is named before anything is styled.
SHIPPED
v0.8.0
WEEK 04–07
Fabrication
Design and build run together. You watch it happen on a staging URL from the first week.
IN PROGRESS
v1.0.0
WEEK 08
Handover
Tokens, components, documentation and a recorded walkthrough. Then we get out of the way.
QUEUED
08 — FIGURES
MEASURED, NOT ESTIMATED
09 — FIELD REPORTS
03 SHOWN / 06 FILED
R.01
LOGGED 2026-03-11
AGAINST A.01
“They specified the whole thing before drawing a pixel, which sounds slow and turned out to be the fastest project we have run.”
ELENA VOSS / HEAD OF PRODUCT, HALCYON
NO DEFECTS FOUND
INSPECTED 2026-03-11
R.02
LOGGED 2026-01-27
AGAINST A.02
“The documentation alone paid for the engagement. Two years on, our team is still building inside the system they left us.”
MARCUS DELL / FOUNDER, NORTHBANK
PASSED — IN SERVICE
INSPECTED 2026-01-27
R.03
LOGGED 2025-08-14
AGAINST A.03
“We have worked with studios that draw beautifully. This is the first one whose handover our engineers did not quietly rewrite.”
PRIYA RAMAN / VP ENGINEERING, FERROUS
APPROVED FOR ISSUE
INSPECTED 2025-08-14
10 — DELIVERABLES
WHAT SHIPS WITH EVERY ENGAGEMENT
01
SPECIFICATION
A written document covering every state, token and edge case. Signed off before design starts.
PDF · Notion
1
02
DESIGN FILES
Source files, organised and named, with the component library intact rather than flattened.
Figma
1
03
DESIGN TOKENS
Colour, type and spacing as tokens, exported in the format your stack consumes.
JSON · CSS · Swift
3
04
COMPONENT LIBRARY
Built components with documented props and states, not screenshots of them.
Figma · Code
48
05
BUILD
Front-end that matches the drawing, or a clean handover to the team who will build it.
React · Framer
1
06
SPECIMEN SHEET
A living style guide page, like the one on this site, kept in the project.
URL
1
07
BUILD LOG
Dated record of every decision and why it was made. Useful eighteen months later.
Markdown
1
08
WALKTHROUGH
A recorded handover so the knowledge does not leave when the engagement ends.
MP4
2
ENGAGEMENT
INDICATIVE RATES — 2026
Two weeks, fixed scope
from £6,000
Six to twelve weeks
from £24,000
Ongoing, monthly
from £8,000 / mo
Half-day sessions
from £1,200
Rates are indicative. Every engagement is scoped and quoted from the specification.
11 — THE STUDIO
LONDON / REMOTE
We draw it before we build it, and we write down why.
Six people in London working for studios, product teams and the occasional stubborn founder. We take on four engagements a year so each one gets specified properly rather than assembled from whatever shipped last time.
Ciprian Titire
FOUNDER / PRINCIPAL
12 — ENQUIRY
02 SLOTS / Q4 2026