We believe most things are over-designed and under-considered. So we start with the argument, not the artwork — and we don’t move a pixel until we know why it’s there.
Maris & Co. is six people who’d rather do a few projects properly than many of them quickly. We work directly with founders and the people who’ll live with the work — no account layers, no hand-offs, no surprises in week six.
If we’re not the right studio for you, we’ll tell you, and point you to someone who is. We’d rather lose the project than do it badly — and in fifteen years that instinct has never once steered us wrong.
- Independent, founder-led
- 12yrs
- Brands shipped end-to-end
- 40+
- Awards for the work
- 9
( 01 ) — How we work
How we work
- 01
Fewer, better
A handful of projects a year means every one gets the studio's full attention.
- 02
Strategy before surface
The look comes last. We earn it by getting the thinking right first.
- 03
Built to last
Systems your team can run without us. We design the studio out of the picture.
( 02 ) — The team
Six people, one table.
- 01
Inês Maris
Founder · Strategy
- 02
Otto Reyes
Design Director
- 03
Lena F04
Art Director
- 04
Sam Pereira
Writer · Voice
- 05
Júlia Antunes
Motion & Sound
- 06
Marco Vale
Engineering
( 03 ) — Capabilities
What we do, and how we get there.
- 01
Brand
Naming, identity systems, voice, and the guidelines that keep it all honest.
- 02
Web
Editorial, product, and marketing sites — designed and built, end to end.
- 03
Art Direction
Photography, illustration, and the look of a campaign from brief to delivery.
- 04
Motion
Launch films, brand animation, and sound — story first, polish always.
( 04 ) — Recognition
Quietly, the work has been noticed.
- 2025
D&AD Yellow Pencil
Branding — Æther Botanicals
- 2024
Type Directors Club
Identity — Halo Festival
- 2024
Awwwards SOTD
Northbank Capital
- 2023
The One Show — Merit
Salt & Smoke
- 2022
Webby — Nominee
Cadence Audio launch
Trusted by teams who care about the details
- Æther
- Northbank
- Halo
- Terra
- Cadence
- Salt & Smoke
- Meridian
Think we’d be a good fit?
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