Lisbon & Copenhagen — Independent since 2014

Two project slots open for Q3

We design the things people trust.

Meridian is a twelve-person studio building brand identities, digital products and the editorial systems that hold them together — for founders, funds and cultural institutions across Europe.

11 Years independent, no investors, no holding company
68 Brand systems shipped across 14 markets
91% Of new work arrives by referral

Trusted by teams who take design seriously


Halden Fold & Cadence Northbound Verger Atlas Civic Kestrel Ostro

Selected work

Six projects that
explain the rest.

We publish a small fraction of what we make. These are the projects where the brief was hardest and the thinking is easiest to see.

Halden Optics

Optical instruments for field science

2025

Fold & Cadence

A publishing house rebuilt around its archive

2025

Kestrel Health

Clinical software that stops shouting

2024

Verger Coffee

Direct-trade coffee, without the folklore

2024

Atlas Civic

A city’s services, finally in one voice

2024

Northbound Capital

Making a €900M fund legible

2023

What we do

Four disciplines,
one argument.

We are deliberately narrow. Everything we offer feeds the same outcome: a company that looks like it knows what it is doing, because it does.

01

Brand identity
& systems

Naming, positioning, wordmark, type system, colour, photographic direction and the guidelines that keep it alive after we leave. We build identities that a twelve-person marketing team can operate without calling us.

Positioning Naming Visual identity Guidelines

6–10 weeks
from €18,000

02

Digital product
& interface

Marketing sites, web apps and the design systems underneath them. We work in the browser early and hand over components your engineers actually want to use — documented, tokenised, tested against real content.

UX & IA Interface design Design systems Front-end

8–16 weeks
from €24,000

03

Editorial
& publishing

Books, reports, annuals and long-form digital. Twenty years of print discipline applied to whatever surface the story needs. We set the grid, commission the images and sit on press.

Book design Annual reports Typesetting Print production

4–12 weeks
from €9,500

04

Motion
& art direction

Identity in motion, campaign art direction, photographic and illustration commissioning. We write the brief, choose the makers and hold the standard through delivery.

Brand motion Campaign Commissioning

3–8 weeks
from €7,000

What our clients say

We arrived with a hundred slides and left with one sentence. Six months later that sentence is on the door, in the fund documents, and in how our analysts introduce themselves.
Ines Marchetti Managing Partner, Northbound Capital

New projects

Have something
worth doing properly?

Tell us the problem in your own words. We reply to every brief within two working days — with a straight answer about whether we are the right studio for it.