The mark, the page, and the deck should still be cousins.
We make what a company shows people — marks, sites, decks, reports — and hold them in one system, so the last thing out the door still looks like the first.
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What we do
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Identity
Marks and kits that read at favicon size and on a wall.
Mark, palette, type, usage -
Interfaces
Sites and product UI where hierarchy does the talking.
Site, product UI, tokens -
Narrative
Decks and reports that leave someone able to decide.
Decks, reports, one-pagers -
Systems
One palette, type scale, and lexicon — reused, not reinvented.
Tokens, components, lexicon
Related work, not a pile of one-offs.
A direction arrives next to two others on the same subject — three candidates, one page. Choosing by eye takes minutes. Arguing about it in prose takes a week.
After that, every round meets the gates the first one met: contrast measured rather than judged, hierarchy carried by size rather than colour, every value traceable to the one place it is defined.
Some briefs we turn down. A brief with no decision behind it produces decoration, and decoration is the thing you pay for twice.
Contact
Start with what has to ship.
A short note is enough — who you are, what leaves the door, and when.
hello@motmot.nycEvery note gets an answer: a direction, a question, or a clear no.