Independent design studio — Est. 2016

We build brands
that hold up.

Identity, digital product, and art direction for companies that would rather be remembered than merely seen.

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01 — Selected work

A decade of quiet, deliberate craft.

A laser cutter engraving the SilverSuccess wordmark into a pane of glass
Featured case study
SilverSuccess

Taking a glass cutting works out of the trade catalogue

SilverSuccess cuts, edges and tempers architectural glass to tolerances most of their competitors quote in millimetres and they hit in tenths. None of that was visible anywhere. Their identity looked like a fabrication catalogue from 1994, and specifiers were choosing suppliers on price because nothing else was being communicated. We rebuilt the brand around precision as the product: a wordmark with a cut edge, an orange that reads across a factory floor and a spec sheet alike, and a technical library that finally makes their tolerances the first thing an architect sees.

"We briefed six studios. PsenseiStudio was the only one that walked the factory floor before showing us anything. They understood that the tolerance is the story." Marta Feldman · Managing Director, SilverSuccess
+64%
Quote requests from architects
−38%
Time from enquiry to quotation
2.4×
Repeat orders from specifiers
Meridian identity

Meridian — Full brand identity

Identity / 2025
Kōri packaging

Kōri — Packaging system

Packaging / 2025
Hong Kong at dusk — elevated railway and neon storefronts

Hong Kong Kwun Tong

Art Direction / 2024
Northbound platform

Northbound — Product platform

Digital / 2024
Fold editorial

The Fold — Editorial & typographic system

Editorial / 2023

02 — What we do

Four disciplines, one conversation.

/ 01

Brand Identity

Naming, marks, typographic systems, and the guidelines that keep them coherent five years from now.

  • Strategy
  • Naming
  • Logo & marks
  • Guidelines
/ 02

Digital Product

Websites and interfaces designed with the same rigour as print — then built to load fast and age well.

  • UX
  • UI systems
  • Webflow / React
  • Design ops
/ 03

Art Direction

Photography, film, and campaign direction — from mood and casting through to final grade.

  • Campaigns
  • Photography
  • Motion
  • Styling
/ 04

Packaging & Print

Structural and surface design, production management, and press supervision. We show up at the printer.

  • Structure
  • Surface
  • Production
  • Press check

03 — The studio

Small by design.
Senior by default.

Psensei Studio is eight people in one room. No account layer, no handoffs, no junior team quietly doing the work you were pitched. The people you meet are the people who make it.

We take on roughly ten projects a year. That constraint is deliberate — it's what lets us stay in a problem long enough to find something true rather than something merely finished.

10y
In practice
140+
Projects shipped
18
Awards
The studio

04 — People

The whole studio.

Iris Almeida

Founder, Creative Director

Ivan Kovač

Design Director

Naomi Weiss

Strategy Lead
Psenseiay

Psenseiay

Head of Digital

05 — Journal

Notes from inside the work.

06 — Contact

Let's make something
worth keeping.

We're booking projects for Q4 2026 and beyond. Tell us what you're working on — we reply to everything within two business days.

Studio
2-11-3 Meguro
Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-0063
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A guided intake — a few questions, then we turn it into a brief.