Studio
A point of
view you
can hire.
Multidisciplinary art director and creative director. Working across brand identity, motion design, and editorial image direction from London and Lisbon.
Available for projects, speaking, and thoughtful collaboration.
Let’s talk →Juno Vega
I grew up between two visual languages: my mother is an architect, my father a calligrapher. I spent my childhood watching them argue about whether form followed function, or the other way around. I still don’t have an answer, but the argument informs everything I make.
I studied Fine Art at Goldsmiths and then took a year-long typography fellowship in Basel, which felt like learning to slow down. Since then I’ve directed visual identities for independent brands, art directed editorial campaigns, designed motion sequences for film and television, and written about all of it — honestly, and not always approvingly.
My studio is myself, plus a rotating set of collaborators: photographers, animators, typographers, and strategists I’ve worked with long enough to trust. We’re better together than any of us is alone, and I try to be honest about that.
I’m drawn to projects at the edge of a client’s comfort zone — work that requires them to trust a point of view they couldn’t have arrived at alone. That’s the job, and I take it seriously.
How I work
Start with the question behind the brief
Every brief contains a question that isn't being asked. Finding it is the actual work. I spend more time in the problem than most clients expect, and less time in revision than any of them fear.
Material honesty as an aesthetic
I'm drawn to the moment when the process is visible in the result — typefaces that look drawn, layouts that have a rhythm you can feel. Design that hides its making usually hides something else too.
Collaboration, not consultation
I work with, not for. The best projects happen when the client knows their field and I know mine, and we meet at the work. I've ended projects that didn't have that quality of exchange. I'd rather do fewer things properly.
Longevity over novelty
Trends are for headlines. Work that lasts is built on conviction, not on what's currently interesting. I push for decisions that will still be right in a decade — which means sometimes having uncomfortable conversations early.
Clients & Collaborators
Speaking
Offset Dublin · Dublin, Ireland · 2024
Art Direction at the Edge of AI: What Stays Human
It's Nice That Lecture Series · London, UK · 2024
The Brief Is Not the Question
Semi-Permanent Sydney · Sydney, Australia · 2023
Editorial Motion: Moving Images That Think
Design Indaba · Cape Town, South Africa · 2023
Identity Systems for Humans, Not Brands
AGI Open · Copenhagen, Denmark · 2022
On Ugliness as a Design Tool
AIGA Design Conference · Denver, USA · 2022
The Archive as Practice
Available for new projects
Currently taking on commissions starting Q1 2025. Particularly interested in brand identity, editorial, and motion work.