Independent · Lisbon & New York · est. 2018

A small studio for brave brands.
We design quietly and ship often.

14 humans
87 shipped, '23–'25
6 wks avg. engagement
3 / qtr currently booking
— LIVE · NOW
3/14
Q3 spots remaining4 weeks out

★ NOW IN PRODUCTION

  • Cobalt Capital — identitywk 4
  • Field & Fern — packagingwk 2
  • Hearth Restaurant — printwk 5
  • NDA · Berlin fintechwk 3
Made
by hand,
in Lisbon.
— RECOGNITION '23–'25
  • D&AD3 wood pencils
  • Brand New14 features
  • It's Nice That22 features
  • The One Show2 silver
  • European Design1 gold
  • Fast Co."Most Innovative" '24

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— SELECTED WORK

What we shipped, recently.

★ Featured · Identity · 2025

Aedion — a brand for the patient investor.

A six-month engagement to rebuild the identity, web, and reporting templates for a Berlin wealth manager.

Web + Brand · 2025

Lóng — a tea house, online.

Identity, packaging, and a quietly ambitious e-commerce build for the third-generation Hong Kong tea family.

Packaging · 2024

Field & Fern

Identity · 2024

Verde Co-op

Web · 2024

Hearth · Lisbon

Print · 2024

The Daily Roast — print & web

A weekly newspaper for coffee people, designed and shipped on a 7-day cycle.

Type · 2023

Civic Sans, Tallinn

A government typeface for the Estonian state, on a 14-week sprint.

— WHAT WE DO

Four practices.
One studio.

Engagements from 4 weeks. Most run 6–14.
01

Brand Identity

Naming, marks, type systems, voice, and the hundred small decisions that make a brand feel inevitable. We work with founders directly, on engagements that typically run eight to fourteen weeks.

FROM €34K14 ACTIVE PROJECTS
02

Digital Product

Marketing sites, e-commerce, brand-led product surfaces. Designed in-studio, built by our two-engineer team.

FROM €22K+ENG
03

Print & Packaging

Books, journals, packaging systems, signage. We art-direct production and ship physical samples.

FROM €14KEU + UK PRESS
04

Custom Type

Bespoke typefaces drawn for a single client, in-house, on a four-month minimum.

FROM €48K
— HOW WE WORK

Four weeks, minimum.
Two people, always.

i.

Listen.

A 90-minute call, then a written brief, sent back to you. We do not start until you sign it.

ii.

Sketch.

Three directions on paper, walked through with you in person. We do not show comps.

iii.

Build.

One direction, taken to production. Weekly Friday share-outs, no surprises at the end.

iv.

Ship.

You launch. We stay on a six-month retainer, free, in case anything breaks.

— FROM OUR CLIENTS

What they say,
once we've shipped.

★★★★★
"I have hired four agencies in twelve years. Lumin is the only one that delivered exactly what they said they would, on the day they said they would. The work is also, for what it's worth, excellent."
Mariana CostaFounder · Hearth, Lisbon
2025
★★★★★
"They told us to delete eighty percent of our website. We thought they were mad. We did it. Conversion went up forty-one percent. They were not mad."
Niklaus FreyCEO · Aedion, Berlin
2025
★★★★★
"The most patient and most opinionated studio we have ever worked with. The two are not, as we discovered, mutually exclusive."
Calum MacRaeDirector · The Daily Roast
2024
★ Booking Q3 2026 · 3 spots

Have something brave
you'd like to ship?

Tell us a paragraph about it. If we can help, we reply within 24 hours, in person, never via a portal. If we can't, we'll point you to a studio that can.

— BRIEF FORM

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