UMBRA
Identity
Motion
Interaction
Three-dimensional
Type design
Film titles
Installation
Art direction
In production — delivering 2027
Ora
A spatial identity system for a research institute in Copenhagen — wayfinding, a variable typeface drawn for the building, and a generative motion grammar that responds to its own sensor data.
02.1
Four people, one room, and a long-standing suspicion of the obvious.
We are a small practice: four people, one room, and a preference for work that has to survive being built. What follows is the short version — who we are, who we build for, and what has been noticed.
02.2
People
Four, working from one room
02.3
Clients
Culture, industry and independent labels
02.4
Recognition
Selected awards and press — 2024 to 2026
03.0
Every project runs the same four movements, whatever it turns out to be.
01
Research
Reading the problem
02
Drawing
Finding the form
03
Prototype
Making it move
04
Release
Handing it over
04.1
Commissions are open for the first quarter of 2027. Write with a sentence about the work, a rough shape of the budget, and when you would like to begin.
04.3
Enquiries
New work · Collaborations · Speaking
04.4
Studio
51.5074° N / 0.1278° W — London
04.5
Elsewhere
Instagram · Vimeo · Are.na
UMBRA
Identity
Motion
Interaction
Three-dimensional
Type design
Film titles
Installation
Art direction
In production — delivering 2027
Ora
A spatial identity system for a research institute in Copenhagen — wayfinding, a variable typeface drawn for the building, and a generative motion grammar that responds to its own sensor data.
02.1
Four people, one room, and a long-standing suspicion of the obvious.
We are a small practice: four people, one room, and a preference for work that has to survive being built. What follows is the short version — who we are, who we build for, and what has been noticed.
02.2
People
Four, working from one room
02.3
Clients
Culture, industry and independent labels
02.4
Recognition
Selected awards and press — 2024 to 2026
03.0
Every project runs the same four movements, whatever it turns out to be.
01
Research
Reading the problem
02
Drawing
Finding the form
03
Prototype
Making it move
04
Release
Handing it over
04.1
Commissions are open for the first quarter of 2027. Write with a sentence about the work, a rough shape of the budget, and when you would like to begin.
04.3
Enquiries
New work · Collaborations · Speaking
04.4
Studio
51.5074° N / 0.1278° W — London
04.5
Elsewhere
Instagram · Vimeo · Are.na