Our Studio Practice
The makings of Olive Oil, the glossy creative company.
Below is the fine print detailing how “the sauce” (or oil) is made at Olive Oil. If reading isn’t your thing, or you’re keen to learn more, don’t hesitate to reach out and ask us anything! We love to meet new people.
Idea
Olive Oil is a studio shaping vibrant creative work for modern companies who care about people and the planet.
Team
We’re an amorphous team of 3-8 design-focused people. Our typical activities include: absolutely shredding playlists, researching esoteric aesthetics, and plotting the course of visual culture for the next decade. Our work is the outlet for our musings and the culmination of our diversified skillsets.
Service
We provide creative work anchored in research and cultural significance. Using vibrant, refined visual identities, our work strikes deep in cultural conversations in order to elevate and transform businesses. The outcome is business success coming hand-in-hand with cultural evolution.
Partnership
To work with us is to partner with us. We consider partnerships to be the underpinning of culture-shifting work. Therefore, we take on a great responsibility to develop, impact, and maintain personal relationships in order to deliver best-in-class works as a result.
Method
The work is heavily influenced by design strategy and aesthetic research. Visual decisions are targeted, and studied to pierce markets and conversations with precision. Here’s how we like to get things done:
Center: Focusing, considering, & developing the right solution for the right audience at the right time. We take into account all the W’s (Who, What, Where, When, Why, How), and discover insight in collaboration with our partners.
Play: Great design doesn’t happen by accident, but it does happen with accidents. Culture-shifting ideas are often developed serendipitously, we create space for it.
Refine: In order to achieve impact at scale, we trim the excess & synthesize the most effective solution. This is where potential is realized.
Activate: Similar to Centering, this phase is done in extreme proximity with clients. We ensure no stone is left unturned, there are no qualms, and there is a clear path forward.
Fields
We love Innovative Gastronomy, Community-Based Efforts, Ecological Architecture, Food Science, Sustainability Technologies, Art Advocacy & Documentation, Decentralization, and basically any ideas make people and the planet happy.
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