brand identity
Marrow & Meadow
A holistic farmstead identity for a regenerative-agriculture cooperative. Hand-cut wood-block marks, letterpress stationery, and a wayfinding system carved in oak.
handcrafted brand & web design — pastoral, deliberate, ornamented with care.
A holistic farmstead identity for a regenerative-agriculture cooperative. Hand-cut wood-block marks, letterpress stationery, and a wayfinding system carved in oak.
A reading-first publishing house site for slow journalism — typography-driven, woodcut-inspired ornaments.
52 weekly engravings for a naturalist's almanac.
We believe that any object made well — a teacup, a website, a wayfinding sign at a small museum — carries a quiet kindness toward the people who will use it.
Every project begins with a long conversation and a slow walk. We sketch in pencil before we touch a screen. We test type by reading aloud. We make samples, hold them in hand, change our minds, and start again. The web is an unusually patient medium for an impatient age, and we treat it as such.
Ornament, when earned, is not decoration but devotion — a way of saying that this thing was made by someone, for someone. The Arts & Crafts movement asked whether a wallpaper could love its inhabitants. We continue the question for screens, signage, and small printed objects.
Brand identities, hand-set publications, slow-loading websites, occasional pieces of trade print. Mostly for cooperatives, presses, museums, gardens, and people who measure their work in seasons.
Working with the holos studio felt less like commissioning a website and more like sitting down with a thoughtful friend who happens to draw very, very well. Six months on, I still find new small kindnesses in our type.
They asked us to read the brand guidelines aloud, in the field, on a Sunday. It was odd. It was correct. The cooperative still uses the same wood-block marks, two summers later.
The almanac came back from the bindery and the smell of the linen cover alone was worth the year of work. The interior plates — fifty-two engravings of birds we will never tire of looking at.