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EASE° — brand, web & motion design studio

You're feeling the pitch already. Every kern pair, every beat, every easing curve on this page is the portfolio — EASE° designs brands, websites and motion that people feel before they think. And what people feel is what they choose.

63brands shaped
21×international design awards
1.4Bviews of the work
9industries, one standard
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What feeling does

Felt first. Measured after.

We don't chase numbers — we chase the lean-in, the second look, the screenshot sent to a friend. The numbers arrive afterward, like applause. Here's what followed the work, across our last 24 launches:

+0%Social engagement after rebrand

Median across identity launches. People don't share dashboards — they share things that look like nothing else on their feed.

0×Deeper sessions on our builds

When a page moves like this one, people stop skimming and start reading.

0%Scroll-through on hero stories
0Awwwards · D&AD · ADC · FWA
0MOrganic views, one title sequence
0%Of clients return with project two
0 daysTo the first direction review

Ten days in, you see the work. That date has its own rule — it's in Ways In below.

Our contracts contain no performance clauses. Not because design doesn't perform — the wall above says otherwise — but because craft isn't a slot machine, and we won't pretend it is. The promise we make is the one you're holding: this page is the pitch, the proof, and the product. If it doesn't already feel different, we're not your studio.

The method

Every project is an easing curve.

Phase 01 — Listen

Linear. On purpose.

Research moves in a straight line: no flourishes, no taste yet. We sit in your rooms, read your market, interview your buyers and your skeptics, and map what your category looks like — so we know exactly what it must stop looking like.

  • Stakeholder rooms
  • Brand archaeology
  • Audience portraits
  • Category teardown
  • Culture scan
Phase 02 — Define

The curve gains slope.

Strategy compresses everything we heard into one sentence you'd tattoo. Naming, voice, creative direction, a moodfilm that makes the room go quiet — the angle of the whole project is set here, while changing course still costs nothing.

  • Positioning
  • Naming & voice
  • Creative direction
  • Moodfilm
  • Design principles
Phase 03 — Make

We overshoot. Deliberately.

The work goes past the answer — wilder type, harder colour, stranger motion — because the only way to find the edge is to cross it. Then we pull back to the exact frame where bold still converts. That overshoot is where the unforgettable lives.

  • Identity systems
  • Type & lettering
  • Web & interactive
  • Motion & film
  • Packaging
  • 3D & image
Phase 04 — Ship

Everything settles true.

The landing is the signature: guidelines your team will actually open, a motion toolkit with our curves baked in, a site tuned until it feels inevitable. The same easing carrying this sentence ships with your files. Launch is a beginning, not a handover.

  • Launch kit
  • Living guidelines
  • Motion toolkit
  • Handover & training
  • First-90-days support

Selected work

The work, and what followed.

Four worlds we built. Every figure is what the client measured afterward — reported, not promised.

VTBDTC commerce · Product page
Live site
+88%add-to-cart rate €124.99one hero product 6,000+species the AI names 4.8★across 900+ reviews

A camera bird-feeder needed a product page that sells the feeling, not the spec sheet — the bird gets named, the tech proves itself, and the €124.99 add-to-bag never leaves the screen.

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VELOCEPerformance web · Brand + Site
Live site
+212%average conversion lift 0.38smedian LCP, shipped 100/100lighthouse, all lanes $38Mclient revenue attributed

A studio that sells speed had to be the proof — so the site itself winds to redline as you scroll and loads before doubt does. The build became the pitch: clients signed from the homepage.

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PHASEBrand, web & sound · Studio
Live site
+128%qualified inbound 3 wksbrief to live site 8design awards 1 signalacross every page

A brand, web, motion and sound studio whose site had to resonate before it read — the whole page tuned to one signal. The pitch is the scroll; the work speaks first.

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LUCENTDigital studio · WebGL + Brand
Live site
+210%time on site FWAsite of the day 60fpson the glass 1 objectthe whole brand

A production studio that builds the impossible needed a homepage that proved it — one refractive object you can throw around, rendered live. The showreel stopped being necessary.

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Capabilities

Whole worlds, not deliverables.

Six crafts under one roof, so your brand never gets lost in translation between vendors. Everything below ships with motion in its bones.

Brand identity

Strategy, naming, identity systems that flex from app icon to airport banner without flinching.

positioning / naming / identity / guidelines

Web & interactive

Hand-built sites like this one — art-directed to the pixel, animated to the millisecond, accessible to everyone.

design / build / cms / 3D & webgl

Motion & film

Title sequences, brand films, product stories, UI motion — choreographed on signature curves, not stock presets.

titles / brand film / ui motion / broadcast

Type & lettering

Custom wordmarks, display cuts and lettering — because rented typefaces make rented impressions.

wordmarks / display type / lettering

Art direction & image

Photography direction, 3D worlds, illustration systems — one visual climate across every channel.

photo / 3D / illustration / campaign

Design systems

Tokens, components and living guidelines that keep the work sharp after we leave — the taste, documented.

tokens / components / governance

Ways to work

Three doors. One standard.

The Sprint
around 2k

Three weeks, one outcome: an identity essentials kit or a one-page world that makes the rebrand argument for you.

  • One senior design lead
  • Identity essentials or single-page site
  • Motion starter kit
  • Direction review at day 10
Book a sprint
The WorldMost chosen
10k+

Eight weeks, the full method: strategy, identity, website and motion — one coherent world, shipped breathing.

  • Listen → Define → Make → Ship
  • Identity + web + motion toolkit
  • Living guidelines & handover
  • First-90-days support
  • The week-two rule, in writing
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The Residency
 

The studio on your roster: a standing design and motion lane for teams that ship every week.

  • Senior designer + motion designer
  • Weekly drops, monthly direction
  • Design-system stewardship
  • Pause or stop monthly
Talk residency

The week-two rule. Day ten of any engagement is the first direction review. If the work doesn't make you sit forward — walk away, pay only for the days used, keep everything on the table. No metric clauses, no lock-ins, no lawyers. Confidence in craft is the only guarantee worth printing.

Clients, quoted

The room went quiet.

They presented the identity and our chairman — who has opinions about fonts — just said: that's us. Forty years and nobody had drawn it before.
Margit HaldeManaging Director — HALDE Architekten
The moodfilm did in ninety seconds what three strategy decks couldn't. We stopped explaining the brand and started showing the curve.
Ren MoriFounder — MORI
Editors fight over who gets to use the title toolkit. I've run post houses for twenty years; nobody fights over brand guidelines.
J. OkonkwoCreative Director — VANTA Pictures

Before you write

Worth asking.

Begin

Tell us what should move.

Two paragraphs is plenty. A human replies within two days with one of exactly two things: an honest no, or a yes with first sketches attached. Either way, you'll know.

  • Write[email protected]
  • ReplyWithin 2 days — usually with sketches
  • CapacityAutumn 2026 — 2 worlds, 1 residency
  • StudioLisbon & remote, your timezone respected