Case study2026

Atelier Norden

A Nordic design house asked for a system — not a website.

ClientAtelier Norden

Year2026

RoleBrand system · Site · CMS

ScopeIdentity, art direction, Next.js build, Sanity studio

StackNext.js · Sanity · Framer Motion · Vercel

AwardsAwwwards SOTD, FWA

Atelier Norden came to us with a problem every established studio faces: the identity had drifted across ten years of quiet work. We rebuilt the foundation — a single source of truth for their identity, copy, and site — that they could run themselves for the next five years.

FIG. 01—Primary wordmark and violet accent system

Letterpress card — FIG. 02—Letterpress correspondence set

Stationery — FIG. 03—Embossed collateral

Material detail — FIG. 04—Paper stock study

Responsive site — FIG. 05—Marketing surface, desktop

Theydidn'tjustredesignawebsite.Theygaveusasystemourwholeteamcouldactuallyuse.

Deliverables06

01Design → launch18 weeks, no scope creep

02Handoff meetingsZero — designed and shipped by one team

03Median load2.1s on 4G · LCP 1.4s

04CMS surfacesSanity Studio, 14 document types

05Performance100 Lighthouse, all categories

06AccessibilityWCAG 2.2 AA, manually audited

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