Concept study · Brand & Identity
An identity system for a furniture maker
Concept illustration: an identity system board for a fictional company, showing mark, type, colour and application. Not client work.
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Brands and products, grown from one root.
Strategy, design and engineering in one team. We take companies from a first idea to a working brand, product or platform, and stay for the releases after launch.
01 / Services
Six disciplines. One team.
The same people who write the strategy sit in the design reviews and the release planning, so nothing is lost between departments.
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Brand & Identity
Naming, positioning, identity systems and the guidelines that keep them intact.
Explore Brand & Identity 02Marketing & Growth
Campaign strategy, landing systems, lifecycle email and measurement tied to revenue.
Explore Marketing & Growth 03UX / UI Design
Research, flows, design systems and prototypes tested before production.
Explore UX / UI Design 04App Development
iOS, Android and cross-platform apps, with release pipelines and analytics.
Explore App Development 05Enterprise Web Platforms
Corporate sites, customer portals, commerce and internal tools, built to be handed over.
Explore Enterprise Web Platforms 06Custom CMS
Editorial systems shaped around how your team writes, reviews and publishes.
Explore Custom CMS02 / How it connects
Every service shares the same root.
A project usually starts in one discipline and grows into others. Strategy feeds identity, identity becomes interface, and the interface ships on a platform your team can run.
Brand into marketing
The agreed position becomes campaign messaging, so every channel says the same thing.
Design into product
Identity becomes design tokens, and the design system ships as app and web components.
Platform into content
A CMS built around your editors publishes to the platform without developer help.
03 / Work
See how we think and build.
Concept studies show the standard we work to in each discipline. They are illustrations made for this site, not client projects.
Concept study · Enterprise Web Platforms
A customer portal for a manufacturer
Concept illustration: a customer portal dashboard and the systems behind it. Not client work.
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Concept study · App Development
A booking app, from browse to confirmed
Concept illustration: three screens from a fictional booking app. Not client work.
See App DevelopmentClient case studies are shared directly, so we can choose the projects closest to yours and respect client confidentiality.
Request relevant case studies04 / Process
From root to canopy.
Five stages, each with a clear output you sign off before the next one starts.
- 01 Root
Discovery
Interviews, numbers and constraints. We learn the business before writing the brief.
- 02 Trunk
Strategy and structure
Position, architecture and a written, priced plan agreed before design starts.
- 03 Branches
Design
Identity and interface built as a system and reviewed with you at each milestone.
- 04 Leaves
Build and launch
Engineering, testing, accessibility, release and handover documentation.
- 05 Canopy
Grow
Analytics, improvements and support, so you can see whether the work is paying off.
05 / Giving back
A place for everyone on the internet.
Courthology has a giving side: Courthology Philanthropy Partners Inc., at courthology.org. The site is owned by the foundation and carries out work beyond the foundation's own activities.
Its focus is digital identity, starting with a domain name, so that cost is less likely to stop a good idea from having its own address online.
- Organisation
- Courthology Philanthropy Partners Inc.
- Website
- courthology.org, owned by the foundation
- Focus
- Accessible digital identity
06 / Start a project
Tell us what you're building.
Share the problem, the timeline and a budget range. You will get an honest first read on whether it needs a studio, a system, or something smaller.