We create brands people feel before they understand.
A creative studio and an engineering practice under one roof. We design the brand, the website and the campaign, and we build the systems, software and hardware behind them.
A creative studio and an engineering practice, under one roof. Most things worth making need both.
Studio Surface designs the brand, the website, the campaign. Surface Labs builds the systems, the software and the hardware behind them. And a growing share of our work sits in between: bespoke engineering that only makes sense when the people who drew the brand are the people writing the code.
The creative studio
Studio Surface
Brands people feel before they understand. Identity, websites, print, photography and campaigns.
- Brand identity
- Websites and product design
- Campaigns and print
- Photography and film
Where they meet
Bespoke, end to end
Anything that needs both. A storefront and the ERP behind it. An instrument and the interface that runs it. A brand and the portal it lives in. If it can be specified, we can build it, and one team means nothing falls between two suppliers.
- Platforms and marketplaces
- Operating systems for brands
- Instruments with interfaces
- Whatever the brief turns out to need
The engineering practice
Surface Labs
The machinery behind the brand. ERP and CRM, regulated software, AI and image processing, custom hardware, built from scratch.
- ERP and CRM systems
- Regulated software
- AI and image processing
- Custom hardware
Selected work
Four clients, both practices.
A property marketplace that runs on AI and geospatial data. A toy wholesaler whose whole operation runs on one system we built. A 500-year-old restaurant with a new identity. A survivor jewellery brand whose shop keeps growing. Each needed design and engineering at once.
Surface Labs · What we build
Systems built around the business, not the other way round.
Off-the-shelf software makes a company bend to fit it. We go the other way: we map how the business actually runs, then build the exact system, instrument or platform it needs, with the brand on the front and the engineering underneath. Pick one to see how it is wired.
On the desk
What we are working on, and what is next.
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Kockska HusetStudio · HospitalityPhase 1The logos and branding, a bespoke website, and the photographyCompletePhase 2SEO and marketingCompletePhase 3Campaigns and photography, starting with the autumn menu designsIn production
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Småkryp ABStudio + Labs · RetailPhase 1The webshop across seven markets, delivered and liveCompletePhase 2The ERP and CRM for orders, stock and invoicingIn production
- House of LStudio · Retail and lifestyleWebsite for a survivor jewellery and lifestyle brandIn production
- FrankeniusStudio · PropertyWebsite for the estate and the businesses in its buildingsStarting soon
- CarGateLabs · FleetDrive-through inspection lane and fleet ERP for 4,000 vehiclesIn proposal
In the pipeline: a hotel in Skåne, a PVC products company and a national jewellery group.
