Fourteen people, and we hire about two a year.
Which means every role is a real gap rather than a headcount target, and the person who fills it is in the room for the work from the first week.
- Four projects at a time, never five
- No account layer to hide behind
- Published pay bands, no negotiation theatre
- Four-day weeks in August
A small room where the argument is the process.
Work is reviewed out loud, in front of everyone, twice a week. It is the least comfortable hour in the calendar and the reason nothing ships half-considered.
- Everyone presents their own work, including in the client meeting
- Criticism is about the drawing, never about the person holding it
- The studio closes at seven and we mean it
- One week a quarter is yours, for work that has no client attached
- If you are stuck for a day, that is normal. For three, say so
The things we would want, written down so nobody has to ask.
Nothing here is discretionary or unlocked after a year. It applies from the first Monday.
Published pay bands
Every role has a band on this site and you are placed in it by evidence, not by how hard you pushed in the last call.
One week a quarter, unbriefed
Four weeks a year for work with no client on it. Show it at the Friday review or do not, but take the week.
Thirty days, plus the closure
Thirty days of your own, and the studio closes for the last week of December on top of them.
Health cover from day one
Full private cover for you and anyone who lives with you, with dental, from the first Monday rather than after probation.
The kit you ask for
A machine and a desk setup of your choosing, replaced when it annoys you rather than on a three-year cycle.
A budget with no form
Two thousand a year for courses, conferences, type licences or a workshop in something unrelated. No approval, just tell us afterwards.
Four conversations, and we pay you for the third.
No take-home the week before Christmas, no panel of nine, and a decision within ten working days of the first call. If we say no it comes with reasons.
A call with whoever you would sit next to
30 minutesThirty minutes, no slides. You ask what the work is really like and we ask what you want to be doing in two years.
Your work, in your words
60 minutesWalk us through two projects, including one that went badly. We care more about what you changed afterwards than about the final frame.
A paid day on a real problem
One day, paidA live brief with one of us alongside you, paid at your day rate. You keep the work whatever we decide.
The offer conversation
45 minutesThe band is published, so this is about where in it you land and why. We put the reasoning in writing.
Write anyway. We have hired from an unsolicited note twice.
Tell us what you would want to be doing and show us something you made. We keep good notes and we do come back to them.
Send an open application