monopole.studio designs the visual grammar of complex ideas—publications, identities, and exhibition systems for laboratories, journals, and research institutes that take communication seriously.
A 248-page particle-physics journal redesigned around a single typographic system. Instrument Serif anchors the masthead while Space Mono carries the apparatus tables.
Read case study →Brand identity for a marine-acoustics laboratory. The wordmark resolves into a waveform; the secondary mark behaves like a pressure gauge across signage and stationery.
Read case study →Exhibition design for an eight-room walk-through on crystallography. We treated the wall graphics as a typographic atlas and the catalogue as the same atlas shrunk to A5.
Read case study →A masthead refresh for a 41-year-old journal of polymer science. We kept the founding editor’s blue, retired six legacy display faces, and rebuilt the figure-caption grammar.
Read case study →A 312-page hardcover for the Norwegian Astronomy Society. Two-colour throughout, a fold-out star atlas in the back, and a custom display cut for the constellation labels.
Read case study →A complete identity refresh: wordmark, document templates, web tokens, and an open-source figure library written in TikZ for the centre’s 90 researchers.
Read case study →Conference identity, programme, and a series of seven A1 lecture posters typeset only in Instrument Serif and Space Mono. No images, no decoration; the schedule itself is the artwork.
Read case study →A long-form documentation site for an experimental beamline. Every page is a printable object; the figure captions are typeset like footnotes in a 19th-century journal.
Read case study →monopole.studio was founded by Ingrid Åberg and Petter Lindqvist after fifteen years between MIT Press, Lars Müller, and the Nobel Museum. We work in a single room above a bookbinder near Södermalm. We accept four commissions a year.
Most projects begin with a manuscript and an unanswered question about how it should look on paper. We answer the second question and try not to interfere with the first.
We reply to every brief within ten working days. The studio is closed in July; mid-August onward, the next available slot is February 2027.