Estudio Nadir — independent since 2019. Barcelona, 41.3874° N. The nadir is the point directly beneath you; you have to look down to find it.

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Direction, interface and motion for people building something unreasonable.

Selected work

Selected work — 2024/26

5 projects
We take on four projects a year.That is the whole business model.
Brand directionInterface designMotion systemsDesign systemsEditorialType & letteringPrototypingArt direction

The studio

Most workdies in thecommittee.

We are four people. There is no account layer, no deck that summarises the deck. You talk to the person drawing the thing, which is slower to sell and much faster to make. 

We design in the browser from week three, because a static comp will happily lie to you about weight, timing and everything that happens at 3am on a bad connection. 

2019
Founded in Barcelona
4
Projects per year, maximum
11
Countries shipped into
1
Sentence under every project

How we work

Four moves,
in order,
every time.

It is not a methodology and we are not going to trademark it. It is just the order that keeps working.

  1. 01

    Read the room

    Two weeks of looking before we draw anything. We talk to the people who will have to live with the thing, not just the ones commissioning it.

  2. 02

    Find the one idea

    Every project we're proud of has a single sentence underneath it. If we can't write that sentence, we haven't started yet.

  3. 03

    Build it for real

    We design in the browser from week three. Static comps hide the things that actually decide whether a project is good.

  4. 04

    Hand it over properly

    You get the files, the reasoning, and a system your team can extend without calling us. We'd rather be missed than needed.