Things you can buy, bank with, sleep on or pour. Brands that have to sell, and still look like someone cared.
From bottled cocktails to mortgages, this is where design meets a shelf, a checkout or a sales deck. We build identities and packaging that work hard commercially — and we’re often asked back for the next range.
See the workHow it tends to go
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Ranges, not one-offs.
Craft Cocktails came back for margaritas, Christmas, Father’s Day and Mother’s Day. We design systems that make the next release faster, not harder.
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Built to sell.
Packaging that reads at arm’s length, online shops that actually sell, launch assets ready the same week. Commercial work, made with craft — and built in-house.
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From the name up.
A brewery founded by twelve publicans, a mattress range, a software launch into the UK. We’re often in before the name is — and we’re good at finding one.
Case studies
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Changing Times
Twelve Dublin publicans started a brewery. We built the brand around the one thing every good pint needs: time.
Identity, Art Direction, Packaging
Craft Cocktails – Margarita Range
Dublin’s favourite bottled margarita became a whole range. Every flavour gets its own symbol and a colour you can spot across a bar.
Identity, Packaging, Digital, Print, Art Direction
One Manor Place
A neighbourhood dentist that doesn’t feel like a dentist. No tooth clip-art, no clinical blue.
Identity, Art Direction, Signage, Digital
HR Duo
HR software is famously beige. Before HR Duo launched in the UK, we helped them say bye-bye to the boring.
Identity, Digital, Type Design
Natural Sleep
A family mattress maker in Co. Limerick, nearly forty years in. We helped them build a natural range from the name up.
Identity, Digital, Packaging, Art Direction
Avant Money
MBNA, then Avantcard, then Avant Money. A new name and identity for a lender out to shake up Irish mortgages.
Identity, Digital, Print, Signage, Type Design
Craft Cocktails – Christmas Range
A Christmas range that’s half packaging, half wrapping paper.
Identity, Packaging, Digital, Print, Art Direction
Craft Cocktails – Old Fashioned
A barrel-aged Old Fashioned for Father’s Day. One hundred bottles, every label numbered by hand.
Packaging, Art Direction
ScorePlay
Research, personas, prototypes and a CMS migration for a sports media platform — designed and built with Associate.
Digital, Development, UI / UX
More on the shelf.
Sphere One
Identity and website for an Irish conceptual knitwear label.
Só Collective
An Irish designer retail concept at Kildare Village, with its own typeface and pattern.
From the Isle
A food series for Kildare Village, with its own typeface and laser-engraved print.
Cobblers Wardrobe
Vintage consignment boutique on Sandymount Green.
Green Beards
Identity, packaging and signage for a Dublin juicery.
Article
Identity, signage and packaging for a Dublin design shop.
Barn
Identity, custom type, signage and packaging.
Dotplex
Identity and website for an independent web host — the one we trust with our own servers.
Auger Mono
A monospaced typeface, drawn in the studio and released through Signal.
Signal Specimens
Printed specimens for Signal Type Foundry.
Brite
Identity and art direction.
Uncrowd
Identity and digital.
Lambay
Digital and art direction.
Everyone Counts
Identity, print and packaging.
Plantibiotics
Identity and print.
Diesel Outlet
Identity, digital and art direction.
Lioncourt
Identity, print and digital.
Boxroom
Identity and digital.
Unfold
Identity and print.
DAS Simplified
Identity and digital.
Ahmad Fakhry
Identity and custom type.
Lifestyle Sports Coppa
Art direction for Lifestyle Sports.
Craft Cocktails Mothers Day
A limited run for Mother’s Day.
Celestial Celebrations
Our own Christmas cards, plotting the science behind the Star of Bethlehem.
Nowhere
Identity, signage and print.
Creatrix
An identity for an events consultancy that judges a night by how it made people feel.
Notion
A website for the industrial designers we shared an office with — process shots by Rich Gilligan.
PDA
Named after the 90s Personal Digital Assistant. Identity and a reworked stencil face for a Melbourne digital practice.
The Signature Florist
Identity, a seasonal shoot and a same-day-delivery web shop for a small florist off Cork Street.
“Their work ethic is very impressive and they approached every challenge as an opportunity. We consider them a vital part of our team.”