Studio Freight delivers brands, digital experiences, campaigns, and special projects. We work across categories, continents, and capabilities to move missions forward. Our clients see us as trusted partners who care as much as they do but it’s a ruse because we actually care more.

Services

We transport our partners from where they are to where they want to be. Our global team uses strategy01, design02, experience03, and mettle04 to help brands leave the ordinary behind.

Strategy

We help brands find their promise and evangelize what makes them valuable so they can earn a meaningful, lasting place in people’s lives.

Design

We create visuals, systems, and experiences that make brands clear, relevant, and compelling, from the tiniest detail to the big picture.

Experience

We develop ideas into interactive systems that connect brands and people — spanning screens, spaces, and everything in between.

Mettle

We bring expertise, experience, and pragmatic optimism to every project to turn even the most side-eye ideas into brow-raising results.

Principles

Design Everything

Every system is perfectly designed to get the results it gets. We’re intentional about designing everything — from visuals to code to words to processes — to shape the quality of our work, our opportunities, and our lives.

Adopt New Realities

The world is always changing. We constantly rediscover what’s true and possible now. And we learn, experiment, and evolve as new tools, technologies, and tastes emerge, and embrace them long before others even understand them.

Use Your Headlights

Keep. Moving. Forward. We’re not always going to know the whole plan or have all the details when making decisions. We navigate ambiguity by getting started and doing our best with what we know now, then learning and adjusting along the way.

Strive for Elegance

Time is precious for people with purpose. We aim to convey essential information with the right amount of communication so we can focus on what matters. Be concise, lead with the main point, arrive on time, and avoid overthinking.

Seek Out Shadows

We rise to the level of the limits we accept. When presented with two suboptimal options, we aren’t afraid to pose a third way. Or fourth. Or fifth. Many frame things as black or white. It’s either this or that, they say. We say that’s weak thinking. Many things can be true at once.

Choose the Future

There are no rules, only consequences — most of which are actually nil (nothing happens). We can only move up by making big asks and taking bigger bets. Be willing to believe what others won’t believe and have the courage to be right before it’s obvious.

Rally Others On

Every day we deal with hard challenges that can rattle confidence and cloud judgment. Negativity is crushing in this environment and isn’t tolerated. Talk up to others, assume good intentions, and remember we’re all mostly making it up as we go.

Make it Matter

Most simply aim to solve the problem, we solve the potential. We go beyond “what is” and build for “what could be.” There are no right answers, only wrong ones. Most of the walls holding us in are paper-thin so the trick is to simply run through them.

Partners

We work with category leaders, renegade startups, eccentric celebrities, and modest operators making a silent killing. One studio, many missions.

AI
Commerce
Consumer
Finance
Tech
Venture
Web3
Other

Receipts

Brex

“
We are so very impressed and grateful for the drive, hustle, and quality work Studio Freight thew in to get our end-of-year all hands meeting looking so good. It’s beautiful, BEAUTIFUL. I love how the new design system is showing up, it’s fresh and sharp, yet still feels really approachable. I’m sure the team burned some late hours on this one — thank you. We're very grateful for your work and your partnership. Truly world class.

Karen Tillman
Chief Communications Officer

Hyperbolic Labs

“
Choose Studio Freight if you believe your website is your company's internet headquarters that defines your brand and boosts your customer adoption. We sure did, and we couldn't be happier with our decision! Not only are they absolute pros, but they’re also super responsive and genuinely great people to work with. If you want your website to stand out (and make your competitors jealous), Studio Freight is the way to go!
Jasper Zhang
Founder & CEO

Dragonfly

“
On top of just being an incredibly easy and fun group of people to work with, I think the thing about Studio Freight that I was most blown away by was just the passion and creativity of the team. I feel like we'd meet one week, jam on a few ideas, and then a week or two would pass by and the team would generate a massive collection of different, high-fidelity concepts, all of which checked so many of the constraints that we were operating in for the project. I think this comes from this unique marriage of incredible skill and love for the work that I've seen working with the team, all of which makes them a delight to partner with.

Tom Schmidt
General Partner

Ben Mauro

“
Working with Studio Freight was an amazing experience from start to finish. What I valued most was their deep understanding of both design and storytelling, they took the time to understand my work, my audience, and how to translate that into a site that truly reflects my career and creative vision. The team’s attention to detail, technical execution, and ability to bring personality into the design made the process smooth and inspiring. The outcome was a clean, modern and cinematic website that feels alive and authentic to who I am as an artist.
Ben Mauro
Iconic Concept Artist

Lunchbox

"
I think the best way to describe Studio Freight is to say that they’re my partners. Actually, even better than partners, they’re like an extension of myself and my company. Why do I say that? Because working with them felt like finding my voice all over again. They were able to translate what I asked for into something even better. That’s so important and rare, and what makes it a true partnership. It’s a trait that great leaders experience. Who is Steve Jobs without Jony Ive? Bill Gates. What does Sergey Brin build without Larry Page? Yahoo. Where is John Lennon without Paul McCartney? Dead. You get the point. I don’t think I’ll ever find another partner who has been this in sync with what I’m looking for.
Nabeel Alamgir
Founder & CEO

La Marzocco

“
Agency projects can feel transactional. But this never did. From concept to execution, the Studio Freight team translated our idea and elevated it. Every detail across planning, design, copy, print, and digital was thoughtfully handled. Their team had a clear, well-run system for us to step into, which gave us confidence throughout the project. We never had to chase next steps. The clarity and pace of their workflow was inspiring — so much so that we’ve since looked to it as a model in refining our own.
Ben Blake
Marketing & Creative Director

Easol

“
The attention to detail and care in every single person’s work at Studio Freight is fucking exceptional. They’re the most visually and aesthetically aligned people I have ever worked with, but also very different, which took us in directions I would never have thought of. If they don’t agree with something, they aren’t afraid to fight their corner. I can’t stand ‘yes’ creatives so this was hugely important for me. They treated everything we said about what we wanted to do with proper respect — and treated Easol like their baby too — then made it into gold dust.
Lisa Simpson
Co-Founder & Chief Creative Officer

Mercury

"
Studio Freight's understanding of our brand and their ability to bring it to life through their visuals was impressive. They went above and beyond to ensure we were absolutely stoked with each piece of the project. Working with Studio Freight was a joy, and we are thrilled with the outcome of our collaboration. I highly recommend them to anyone in need of top-notch brand design and high quality illustration work!
Dani Moalem
Brand Design Lead

News

Brex on The Brand Identity

Applause on Brand New

RRE on Klim Type

On Creative Equity with AUFI

Launching Comet on The Manifest

Bad Boys on Complex

Dragonfly on Awwwards

Irys on Brand New

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Team

Becca Agunga, CMS Developer

Alan Alanis, Designer

Dominic Berzins, Lead Digital Producer

Vladimir Biondic, Senior Designer

Danielle Deley, Partnerships Manager

Emma Fischer, Content Manager

Clayton Fuller, Partner, Managing Director

Andrea Giuffrida, Creative Developer

Danielle Gruden, Creative Producer

Jordan Hetzer, Lead Designer

Dallen Hoyal, Technical Lead

Chris Koelsch, Senior Motion Designer

Gianluca Lomarco, Creative Developer

Cole Londeree, Creative Director

Aaron Marks, Partner, Exec. Creative Director

Nathan Okuley, Exec. Director

Ken Pena, Digital Designer

Yocelyns Rojas Vigil, Production Assistant

Matthew Roop, Design Director

Sara Santillan, Project Manager

Lidia Santos, Senior Designer

Katherine Sleight, Studio Manager

Evan Vollick-Offer, Senior Digital Designer

Approach

We
Practice
The Art
of
Brutal
Elegance

At the heart of our approach is brutal elegance. Brutal in our honesty and focus on what actually matters. Elegant in creating solutions as they should be — not more, not less. It’s our way to make the most purposeful work with our precious time.

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