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We build brands
that refuse to
whisper.

Vellum & Voltage is a six-person design studio in Lisbon. We make identity systems, motion, and sites for founders who would rather be polarising than forgettable — and we ship the whole thing in twelve weeks, not twelve months.

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Avg. engagement €48k · 11.5wk to launch

Brands shipped

147

+18 this year

Avg. funding raised after

$6.4M

across 31 clients

Awwwards / FWA

incl. 3 SOTD

Repeat client rate

73%

they come back

In the room with founders from

Halcyon BRIGHTWAVE CINDER Pavilion Quartermast stratos/ Volt&Co Lighthouse Halcyon BRIGHTWAVE CINDER Pavilion Quartermast stratos/ Volt&Co Lighthouse

Selected work

Six that we'd
put on a wall.

A small studio means a small portfolio on purpose. Every project below shipped in the last eighteen months — and we still answer for all of them.

Tight cluster of translucent amber and rose crystal shards on dark taupe

Skincare · Brand + e-comm2026

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The approach

No moodboards.
No focus groups.

We work in three tight phases over eleven to fourteen weeks. You get a named team of three the whole way through — never a junior handoff — and a Friday Loom every week so nothing is a surprise.

Read how we run a project

Excavate

wk 1–3

Two days on-site, every interview recorded. We leave with the one true sentence your brand is allowed to say — and the ten it never can again.

Forge

wk 4–9

Identity, type, motion, and the site built in parallel — not in series. Two directions, then one. We kill the safe one ourselves so you don't have to.

Ship & arm

wk 10–12

A live site, a Figma system your team can drive, and a 40-page playbook. Plus 30 days of on-call so launch week isn't on fire.

What we make

One studio, the whole surface area of a brand.

Flagship

Identity systems

Wordmark, palette, a custom or licensed typeface, motion principles, and the rules that hold it all together. Built to survive an intern, a rebrand rumour, and a billboard.

Type

Palette

Motion

Editorial websites

Design and front-end build, scroll-told and fast. We hand off clean code or a CMS your marketing team can actually run.

Next.jsGSAPSanity

Motion & film

Launch films, looping idents, and the micro-motion that makes a product feel alive. Scored, not stock.

After EffectsBlenderLottie

Packaging & print

Bottles, boxes, books, and the things people hold. We sweat the substrate and stand on press, because a brand that only lives on a screen is half a brand.

Brief us

A recent one

How Kælin went from
shelf-blind to sold out.

A skincare founder with a great formula and a forgettable jar. We rebuilt the whole identity around a single restrained mark and a warm, almost-uncomfortable amber — then carried it onto the bottle, the site, and a 40-second launch film.

Custom display face drawn in-house across 4 weights.
Shopify storefront, front-end built by us, 0.4s LCP.
First batch sold through in 9 days.

kælin.com · 90 days post-launch live

Direct traffic

+214%

vs old site

Conversion rate

4.7 %

+1.9pp

Avg. order value

€64.20

+€21

Press pickups

incl. Monocle

Sessions / daypeak 8,410

Voices

Founders who let us
scare them a little.

"They showed two directions. One was the safe rebrand our board wanted. The other terrified me. They told me to pick the one that scared me — so I did, and it's the reason we got covered."

Aaliyah Greene

Founder · Kælin

"Most studios disappear after the deck. Vellum & Voltage built the actual site, stood on press for the packaging, and answered Slack at 11pm during launch week. Six people who act like sixty."

Diego Sastre

CEO · Pavilion

"They handed our team a Figma system we could actually drive, plus a playbook that's settled three internal fights about the logo already. The handoff is the part most people fumble. They didn't."

Tamsin Fellowes

Head of Brand · Forecast

Before you brief us

The things
founders ask first.

Anything not here, ask on the intro call — it's 25 minutes, no deck, and we'll tell you straight if we're the wrong studio.

What does a full engagement actually cost?+

A complete identity-and-site build runs €38k–€72k depending on scope, with a fixed price agreed before we start — never hourly. Smaller defined pieces (a launch film, a packaging refresh) start at €12k. We send a line-itemed quote after the intro call.

Who actually does the work — is it juniors after the pitch?+

There are six of us and no junior tier to hand off to. The two people you meet on the call are two of the three who'll be in your files every day. We cap ourselves at three live projects so that stays true.

Do you build the site, or just design it?+

We build it. Front-end in Next.js with GSAP for motion, wired to Sanity or Shopify so your team can edit copy without us. You get the repo and a CMS, not a static export you can't change.

Can we use our existing typeface and brand colours?+

If they're working, absolutely — we'll build around them and say so. If they're holding you back, we'll show you exactly why before suggesting we redraw the type or shift the palette. We never change things just to leave a fingerprint.

What happens after launch — are we on our own?+

Every project includes 30 days of on-call after go-live for fixes and questions. After that, 73% of clients keep us on a light monthly retainer for new campaigns and motion — but it's never a lock-in, and the system is yours regardless.

We build brands that refuse to whisper.

Six that we'dput on a wall.

Kælin — a quiet luxury that still gets noticed

Forecast — a money app with a spine

Nimbus — weather data, made gorgeous

Pavilion — a hotel group that travels well in type

No moodboards.No focus groups.