A studio of one,
and the people it works with.
Studio
JWB'S Studio is the practice of Jamie Wesley-Brown, working from Newton, Auckland. The studio takes on a small number of projects a year — identity, editorial, digital and motion — and stays on them long enough to see them produced.
The work is typographic before it is anything else. Most of it is built on a grid, a single typeface and a decision about what to leave out. Clients tend to arrive with either too many rules or none at all; the studio’s job is usually to find the one rule the work has been asking for.
Jamie has worked in-house and in agencies across Auckland and London, and has been running the studio independently since 2019.
- Studio of one, with a standing group of collaborators for photography, engineering, motion and print production.
- Projects typically run six to sixteen weeks. The studio takes on roughly eight a year.
- Available for retainer art direction with in-house teams, one or two days a week.
Services
- 01
Brand Identity
Marks, wordmarks, type systems, colour, guidelines and the rules that survive a handover.
- 02
Art Direction
Photography, illustration commissioning and campaign direction from brief through to production.
- 03
Editorial & Print
Books, catalogues, series design, typesetting and print production management.
- 04
Digital Product
Design systems, marketing sites, commerce and front-end direction alongside your engineers.
- 05
Motion
Title sequences, broadcast systems, interface motion and the specs to keep them consistent.
Clients
- Aotearoa Science Trust
- Pae Whenua Gallery
- Harbour & Hale Publishing
- Tectonic Type Foundry
- Kōwhai Botanical Co.
- Ohm Coffee Roasters
- Fisher Lane Press
- Meridian Works
- Te Whare Toi
- Hale Interactive
- Sharpe & Co.
- Britomart Estate
- Auckland Writers Festival
- Objectspace
- Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision
- Wellington Design Week