Vermilion — independent design practice
Make it impossible to ignore
Vermilion is a design practice for teams with something to say. Identity, motion and digital product — built loud, built precisely, built to last longer than the trend cycle.
Selected work
Eight engagements a year. Every one of them art-directed by a partner, start to finish.
Nocturne Audio
Identity, packaging and a launch film for headphones engineered around silence. Sold out its first run in nine days.
Halte
A modular identity for modular furniture — flat-packed brand system, e-commerce and retail wayfinding.
Fieldnote
Product design and brand voice for a travel journaling app used in 140+ countries. Retention up 61% post-redesign.
Ossa Practice
Editorial identity and a 400-page monograph for an architecture practice obsessed with load-bearing curves.
What we do
Fixed-scope engagements. No hourly billing, no surprise invoices, no junior hand-offs.
- 01 Brand Identity from $24,000
- 02 Motion & Type from $12,000
- 03 Digital Product from $38,000
- 04 Packaging & Print from $16,000
- 05 Campaign & Launch from $20,000
The studio
A distributed practice of eleven designers, writers and engineers. No account managers. You talk to the people doing the work.
Most brands whisper. They hedge, they soften, they ask permission. We build the other kind — identities with a pulse, typography that takes up space, motion that means something. Safe is expensive. Loud, done well, is unforgettable.
Nocturne/Halte/Fieldnote/Ossa/Kairo Labs/Lumen Hotels/Arca Coffee/Velo Freight/Solmar/Tandem Bank
How it works
Four phases. Weekly working sessions. You see real design by week two, not a mood board by week six.
Interrogate
Ten days inside your business. We interview customers, audit competitors and find the one thing only you can say.
Distill
Strategy compressed to a single sharp sentence — the test every design decision has to pass for the rest of the engagement.
Build
Identity, type, motion and digital built in parallel, reviewed with you weekly. Nothing precious, everything intentional.
Ship
Launch assets, living guidelines and a working handover. Your team leaves able to run the system without us.
Say the loud thing
Tell us what you are building and what is at stake. We take on eight projects a year and reply to every serious inquiry within two working days.
Thank you — your inquiry is in front of a partner, not a queue. We read everything ourselves and reply within two working days.