London & Lisbon · Since 2012 Est. 2012 · London & Lisbon

Design forthe momentit changes

Eleven people. Brand systems, digital products and motion for companies at a hinge point — a merger, a new category, a business that has outgrown the way it looks.

Field & Form studio work, abstract composition
Projects a year
Nine
Studio
Eleven people
Founded
2012
Offices
London / Lisbon
D&AD Yellow Pencil ×3Type Directors ClubClients in 14 countriesNine projects a year, no moreAwwwards Site of the YearPartner-led, always

Selected cases

Three projects, in full

The brief, the answer, and what it did. The rest of the archive is below.

Meridian Rail — Transport

A rail brand people could actually navigate

2025
A rail brand people could actually navigate

BriefFour regional operators merged into one network with four sets of signage, four ticket designs and four apps. Passengers did not know which company they were dealing with, and neither did staff.

What we didOne identity built around a wayfinding system rather than a logo. A typeface drawn for platform legibility at distance, a colour system that codes by line, and a component kit that took the app from nine screens to four.

Journeys / yr
84M
Ticketing errors
−41%
App rating
4.7
  • Identity
  • Custom typeface
  • Wayfinding
  • Design system
  • App

Halo Bio — Biotech

Making twelve years of science legible in one page

2024
Making twelve years of science legible in one page

BriefA biotech going into a Series C with a story only three people in the building could tell. The deck ran to ninety slides and the website explained the chemistry before it explained the point.

What we didA narrative structure first, identity second. One diagram system for the science, a site that puts the outcome above the mechanism, and a data-visualisation kit their team can extend without us.

Series C
$180M
Time on page
3.4×
Deck length
90 → 22
  • Narrative
  • Identity
  • Website
  • Data visualisation

Ossa — Consumer

A packaging system for 400 SKUs and one shelf

2024
A packaging system for 400 SKUs and one shelf

BriefFour hundred products, eleven categories, and a shelf where every one of them competed with the others instead of with the competition.

What we didA grid and colour architecture that reads as one family at three metres and as individual products at thirty centimetres, plus artwork templates their internal team runs without design supervision.

SKUs
400+
Artwork time
−63%
Shelf recall
+29%
  • Packaging system
  • Art direction
  • Templates
  • Rollout

Practice

What we are asked for

Usually two of these at once. We do not sell them separately if the problem does not split that way.

Brand systems

Identity built as a system rather than a logo and a mood board — typography, colour architecture, art direction and the rules that let a team of forty stay consistent without asking us.

  • Custom & bespoke typography
  • Art direction
  • Guidelines teams actually use
Brand systems
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Digital products

Interface work with the same care as the brand — design systems, prototypes and front-end built with your engineers rather than thrown over a wall to them.

  • Design systems in code
  • Prototype before production
  • Built alongside your engineers
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Motion & film

Titles, brand motion and short film. Made in-house, which means the motion language is drawn at the same time as the static one instead of retro-fitted a year later.

  • Brand motion language
  • Title design
  • Direction & post in-house
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The studio

Thirteen years, deliberately small

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Who you work with

Partner-led, every project

The person who pitches is the person who designs. We are too small for it to work any other way, which is rather the point.

Imogen Slade

Imogen Slade

Partner, Brand

Founded the studio in 2012 after eight years at Pentagram. Leads identity work and draws most of the type.

D&AD Yellow Pencil ×2

Rui Bastos

Rui Bastos

Partner, Digital

Runs the Lisbon studio and the product practice. Writes production front-end alongside client engineers.

Joined 2015

Astrid Lund

Astrid Lund

Design Director

Packaging and print. Has the best eye in the studio for the thing that is one millimetre out.

Joined 2018

Kwame Osei

Kwame Osei

Motion Director

Directs the film and motion work. Trained as an animator, thinks like a typographer.

Joined 2020

Recognition

Things on the shelf

Useful mainly because clients’ boards find them reassuring.

  • 2025 Yellow Pencil, Brand Systems D&AD Meridian Rail
  • 2025 Site of the Year Awwwards Halo Bio
  • 2024 Certificate of Excellence Type Directors Club Kestrel Type
  • 2023 Design Team of the Year, shortlist Design Week Studio
  • 2022 Gold, Motion Identity European Design Awards Northlight Festival

Clients

What they say once it has shipped

They spent the first month refusing to design anything and asking questions instead. That month is the reason the rest of it worked.
Helena MarksCMO, Meridian Rail
Our engineers asked to keep working with theirs after the project ended. That has never happened before.
Sanjay PatelCTO, Halo Bio
The packaging templates saved my team roughly two days a week, every week, forever.
Cristina DuarteBrand Director, Ossa
Small studio, senior people, no account managers in the middle. Worth every penny of the difference.
Tomas LindqvistFounder, Northlight

Notes

Things we have written down

Occasional, unedited, mostly about process.

The first month is for questions

The first month is for questions

Why we do not show design work for four weeks, and what we do instead — including the meeting most clients find uncomfortable.

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Drawing a typeface for a platform

Drawing a typeface for a platform

Legibility at forty metres, in rain, at an angle, on a screen with a failing backlight. What that does to a letterform.

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Guidelines nobody reads

Guidelines nobody reads

Every studio ships a 120-page PDF that dies in a drive. What we ship instead and why it costs more to make.

Read it

New work

Tell us what you are changing

We take on roughly nine projects a year. The ones that go best start with a conversation months before anyone mentions a deadline.

What are you after

A partner reads every enquiry. We reply either way, usually within two days.