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Lumen Atelier
A Paris womenswear house rebuilt from the typeface down — colour, cloth, packaging and a digital flagship.
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We create brands, digital products & experiences that move people.
Fourteen people. Strategy, identity and the craft to ship it — held in the same room.
01 — Selected work
Projects that had to feel inevitable.
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Vesper Finance
A private wealth platform with the manners of a salon, not a trading floor. Product design for a discreet European house.
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Helix Labs
A genomics company, translated for the people who actually use it. Design and engineering for clinicians, not a pitch deck.
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From people we have worked with.
They treated the brand like a garment — structure first, decoration never.
Clients now arrive at the first meeting having already understood the work.
03 — The studio
We are Dark Spark — a studio for brands that refuse to look like everyone else.
Most companies already have a category. They do not need another version of it. They need a point of view, a system that can take a punch, and work that still feels like them five years later. That is the job.
Fourteen people. London and New York. Strategy, identity, digital product and the craft to ship it. About the studio
- Decide, then decorate Colour, type and a hover state are decisions. If we cannot say why, it does not ship.
- Stay in the work The people who write the strategy sit with the people who build the site.
- Make it last A system that needs a refresh in eighteen months was not a system.
04 — Capabilities
Six disciplines. One studio.
Brand Strategy
Positioning, narrative and the decisions a company should never outsource to a moodboard.
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Visual Identity
Type, colour, motion and the quiet rules that keep a brand recognisable under pressure.
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Web Design
Art direction for the screen — systems, pacing and pages that know when to be quiet.
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Web Development
Front-end built to last: fast, accessible, and honest about what the CMS actually needs.
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Digital Experiences
Campaigns, products and installations where the interface is the idea, not the leftover.
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Creative Direction
One eye across film, stills, product and space, so nothing feels like it arrived from another company.
Open the page05 — In numbers
86 Projects shipped since we went independent
11 Countries where the work now lives
9 Years as a studio, still a partnership of two
70% Of clients who come back with the next brief
06 — People we work with
07 — Process
How a project actually moves.
01 Discovery
Interviews, audits, the unglamorous reading. We find what the company already knows and has not said.
Open the page 02 StrategyPositioning, narrative, principles. A short document that later work is not allowed to contradict.
Open the page 03 DesignIdentity, product, art direction. We design in systems, then make the first artefacts feel inevitable.
Open the page 04 DevelopmentBuild, motion, CMS. Engineering close enough to design that nothing gets “interpreted” on the way.
Open the page 05 LaunchQA, rollout, training, the first months of living with it. We stay until the work is in the world, not just in a deck.
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London and New York. One table.
09 — Journal