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Award-Winning Creative Studio · Est. 2015

We design digital experiences that captivate.

We're a multidisciplinary design studio crafting brands, websites, and motion experiences for forward-thinking companies worldwide.

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A small studio with oversized ambitions.

For over a decade, we've partnered with founders, creative directors, and product teams to translate complex ideas into clear, beautiful, useful digital experiences. We obsess over craft, but never lose sight of the goals.

Every project is led by senior designers. No handoffs to juniors, no bloated timelines — just sharp thinking, sharper execution, and work we're genuinely proud to ship.

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◆ ◆ ◆   OUR MANIFESTO   ◆ ◆ ◆

We believe great design is invisible discipline — quietly removing friction, amplifying meaning, and earning attention without ever demanding it. We build brands that last, products that convert, and experiences people remember.

SIGNED — AXIOM STUDIO · LONDON · 2026

Capabilities that compound.

End-to-end creative services designed to work together and amplify your brand at every touchpoint.

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Brand Identity & Strategy

From naming and visual identity to brand architecture, we build systems that resonate emotionally and perform commercially.

Naming Logo Systems Guidelines Positioning
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Web Design & Development

Performance-first websites, headless CMS, and e-commerce builds that convert.

Next.js Webflow Shopify
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Product & UX Design

Research-driven SaaS, mobile and AI product design from concept to launch.

UX Research Prototyping
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Motion & 3D Experiences

Brand films, micro-interactions, WebGL experiences, and immersive product reveals that make your audience feel something real.

Motion 3D WebGL Video

Where we play.

We specialize in categories where design genuinely moves the needle.

SaaS & Technology

Product-led companies shipping fast and competing on craft and clarity.

62+
Projects
$2.1B
Funded

Climate & Energy

Mission-driven brands building the systems we'll rely on tomorrow.

28+
Projects
14
Countries

Fintech & Banking

Trust-led financial brands that need to be both human and credible.

34+
Projects
9M
Users reached

E-Commerce & DTC

Modern storefronts and brands that earn the click and the return visit.

48+
Stores
3.2×
Avg lift

Health & Wellness

Brands earning trust at the intersection of science, story and self-care.

22+
Projects
7
Awards

Culture & Media

Studios, publications, and creator-led companies shaping taste.

36+
Projects
12M
Impressions

Selected projects.

A curated selection of our most impactful work across brand, web, product, and motion.

2025 · Brand

Brand Identity

Halo Energy — A Radiant Rebrand

A complete identity system, motion language, and conversion-focused website that helped transform Halo into a category leader.

2024 · Brand

Brand Identity

Atlas Climate Co.

A sharp identity and packaging language that positions the company as premium, credible, and future-facing.

2024 · Product

Product Design

Pulse Analytics — SaaS Dashboard

A data-rich, high-clarity dashboard system designed for fast decision-making and elegant information density.

2024 · Motion

Motion & 3D

Drift — Title Sequence

A kinetic brand film system and motion toolkit built to scale across launches, campaigns, and product reveals.

2025 · Web

Web Design

Forma Studio — Design Portfolio

A richly crafted portfolio website with modular storytelling, subtle motion, and a clean editorial grid system.

2024 · Web

E-Commerce

Verge — Storefront of the Year

A performance-first storefront rebuilt around speed, storytelling, and a more confident shopping journey.

01 / 06

Project of the year

2025 Awwwards Site of the Year FWA · Gold

Nimbus — Building the operating system for ambient computing.

An 8-month engagement spanning brand identity, marketing site, product UI and a six-minute launch film. Nimbus closed Series B 9 weeks after launch.

Read the case study

Our four-stage flow

Proven over hundreds of engagements. Each step has a clear deliverable and owner.

01

Discover

Stakeholder interviews, competitive analysis, audience deep-dives and technical audits.

↳ 1–2 weeks
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Define

Strategy, positioning, information architecture and creative direction frameworks.

↳ 1–2 weeks
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Design

Identity systems, interfaces, motion — all crafted in tight feedback loops, never in silos.

↳ 3–6 weeks
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Deploy

Build, QA, launch and iterate with measurable goals and dedicated post-launch support.

↳ 2–3 weeks

What we believe.

Six non-negotiables that shape every project we touch.

/ 01 Strategy precedes pixels A pretty interface that misses the business goal is just expensive decoration. We earn every design decision.
/ 02 Senior, all the way down Your work isn't routed through juniors. The hands on your project are the brains making decisions.
/ 03 Ship beats perfect We obsess over craft but ship on schedule. Real-world iteration always beats studio polish.
/ 04 Performance is design A 2-second site that converts beats a 6-second site with parallax. Speed and craft are the same goal.
/ 05 Bold work, kind humans We make sharp work without being sharp people. Disagreement is welcome; disrespect is not.
/ 06 Measure what matters Every engagement starts with KPIs and ends with a results report. Awards are nice; outcomes pay rent.

Our Results in Numbers

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Projects shipped globally
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Decades of expertise

Results, in numbers

Halo Energy team collaboration in modern office
★ Brand · Energy

How Halo became the most recognizable clean-energy brand globally.

A complete identity overhaul, motion system, and flagship website that generated two enterprise contracts in the first quarter.

+312%
Inbound leads
8.4×
Brand recall
$24M
Pipeline value
Verge e-commerce design collaboration at wooden table
★ Web · Commerce

Verge's storefront tripled conversion in just 60 days.

A re-architected headless commerce experience focused on speed, storytelling, and a checkout flow that earns every click.

3.4×
Conversion
−68%
Bounce rate
98
Lighthouse score
Drift creative team working on design project
★ Motion · Media

Drift's launch film hit 4M views in three days.

A 90-second hero film paired with a modular motion system that powers every campaign across paid, social and OOH.

4.1M
Views in 72h
62%
Completion rate
11
Awards won

Senior talent, no middle layers.

Every project is led by a partner. You'll never be handed off or routed through a producer.

Esmé Laurent, Founder and Executive Creative Director at Lumen Studio

Esmé Laurent

Founder · ECD
Rafael Okafor, Design Director at Lumen Studio

Rafael Okafor

Design Director
Mira Tanaka, Head of Motion Design at Lumen Studio

Mira Tanaka

Head of Motion
WE'RE HIRING

Join the studio.

Senior designers, motion artists, and a full-stack engineer.

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Tools we swear by.

Pragmatic choices. We pick the best tool for the job, never the loudest one.

Figma Next.js Webflow After Effects Three.js Cinema 4D Sanity CMS Shopify Astro GSAP Tailwind Framer

Words from people we've built with.

"Axiom didn't just redesign our brand — they redefined how our entire industry talks about clean energy. The ROI was immediate and the craft is world-class."

Amara Mensah
CMO · Halo Energy

"A genuinely senior team that treats your business like their own. Eleven months in and they still set the creative bar for our internal teams."

Thomas Kestler
Founder · Drift

"The new storefront paid for the entire engagement in 42 days. Best partnership decision we've made in five years of business."

Lin Shimizu
VP Growth · Verge

"Bright, kind, ruthlessly talented humans. Axiom feels like an extension of our team, not a vendor watching a clock."

Priya Joshi
Head of Design · Pulse

Trusted by brands that bet on design.

Halo
Forma
Drift
Verge
Pulse
Atlas
Nimbus
Lumen
Orbit
Kindred
North
Sierra

Modern studio vs. traditional agency.

The boutique scale of a partner. The execution depth of a full studio.

Traditional Agency

Layers of account managers and middlemen
Junior designers doing the heavy lifting
6-month timelines for a marketing site
Design handoff = "your developer's problem"
Quarterly invoicing surprises
One-and-done deliverables

Axiom Studio

Direct access to founders and partners on Slack
Senior-only team — 10+ years average experience
2–10 week engagements, scoped and shipped
Design AND build — pixel-perfect code included
Flat-fee scoping, no surprise line items
30-day post-launch support standard

Flexible ways to engage.

Every engagement starts with a free 30-minute fit call. No surprises.

Sprint
$12k / 2 weeks

Focused, time-boxed engagements for landing pages, brand audits, or rapid prototypes.

  • Senior designer + strategist
  • 2-week dedicated timeline
  • Daily Loom updates
  • All source files included
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Retainer
$18k / month

Embedded creative partnership for teams that need ongoing senior design power.

  • Dedicated design pod
  • Quarterly roadmaps
  • Slack-first collaboration
  • Cancel any month
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Featured in.

Fast CompanyMAR 2025

"Axiom is quietly redefining what a modern design studio looks like — small, senior, and disturbingly effective."

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It's Nice ThatFEB 2025

"There's a quiet confidence to their work — restraint where you'd expect spectacle, craft where you'd expect speed."

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Brand NewJAN 2025

"A masterclass in identity systems that scale without losing soul. One of the best rebrands of the year, full stop."

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Sidebar.ioDEC 2024

"The Axiom team writes some of the most useful, no-fluff design essays on the internet. Required reading."

READ FULL ARTICLE →

Three time zones. One studio.

Async-first across nine time zones. On-site for the moments that matter.

Frequently asked.

Sprints run 2 weeks. Studio engagements run 6–10 weeks depending on scope. Retainers are ongoing with quarterly roadmaps. We always define timeline upfront before contracts are signed.
Absolutely — roughly a third of our work is with funded seed and Series A teams. We offer flexible scoping and equity-friendly arrangements for the right partners.
Yes. Our in-house engineering team ships production-ready Next.js, Astro, Webflow and Shopify builds. We hand off pixel-perfect code, not just comps.
We have studios in London, New York and Tokyo. We collaborate async-first across nine time zones and meet on-site for key workshops and critique sessions.
It starts with a free 30-minute fit call, followed by a paid 1-week discovery sprint, then a clear scope and SOW. You can pause or end the engagement at any contract milestone.

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We'd love to hear about your project. Let's see if there's a fit.

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Let's build something remarkable.

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We respond within one business day. For urgent work, mention it in the message and we'll prioritize.

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