Independent brand and digital studio for companies that move.
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What Orvel does
We build brands for companies moving faster than their brand can keep up. Identity, websites, products and film made by one team.
Independent since 2013. Thirty-four designers, writers, strategists and engineers in Clerkenwell and Lisbon, working for founders and marketing teams in eleven countries.
About the studioSelected work
A payments app for 400,000 freelancers, rebuilt around one idea: money that arrives on time.
+61%sign-ups in the quarter after relaunch
Read the Kinro storyA Bristol running label that wanted to look as fast as it feels, from shop to start line.
2.4×direct sales in year one
Read the Halfpace storyThree small hotels on the Alentejo coast, given one quiet voice and a booking flow guests finish.
58%of rooms now booked direct, up from 22%
Read the Casa Mareta storyLisbon’s nine-night dance and music festival, with an identity that turns like its performers.
9 days40 venues, sold out a week early
Read the Noturna storyMineral skincare from the Azores, packaged to glow on a shelf and photograph well on a phone.
140stockists across Europe within 18 months
Read the Vulca storyAn e-bike subscription that had to make swapping a battery feel as simple as tapping a card.
6 citieslaunched on one product system
Read the Corso storyWhat we make
Four disciplines under one roof, so the identity, the site and the product are designed by the same people.
- Brand identity
Strategy, naming and identity systems that survive contact with real use.
- Websites
Marketing sites and shops we design and build in-house, quick to load and easy for your team to run.
- Digital product
App and platform interfaces, design systems and the prototypes that win the next round.
- Motion and film
Launch films, animated identities and the motion rules that keep every screen consistent.
In their words
Orvel made us look like the company we were about to become. Our investors noticed before our customers did, and then our customers noticed too.
Notes from the studio
Naming a payments app in thirty days
Four hundred candidates, eleven trademark searches and one word that sounds like money arriving on time.
Read the noteA logo is a behaviour, not a drawing
We storyboard a mark before we finalise it. If it cannot turn, split and settle on a phone screen, it is not finished.
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What we look for in a two-week brand audit
Every screen, receipt and email a customer sees, printed and pinned to one wall. The gaps show up by the second afternoon.
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One team, two cities
London and Lisbon share a time zone, so every project has one team, one stand-up and one review. Strategy, design, writing, motion and engineering sit at the same table.
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Unit 4, 31 Great Sutton Street
Clerkenwell, London EC1V 0DX
22 people
London
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Rua da Boavista 72, 3.º
1200-066 Lisboa
12 people
Lisbon
Tell us what you are making. A partner replies within two working days, usually with a few questions and a time to talk.
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