Index / Studio

Index / Studio

Founded 2016 · Amsterdam & Lisbon

Founded 2016 · Amsterdam & Lisbon

Six people who would rather do fewer projects properly.

We started in 2016 after too many years watching good strategy get diluted between an agency’s pitch team and its production floor. AmbitioStudio has no pitch team and no production floor. The people you meet are the people who do the work.

01 / What we believe

Four positions we will not negotiate on.

01

Strategy is not a separate invoice

Positioning happens while we design, not in a deck that precedes it. If a route cannot be argued in words, it is decoration.

02

We publish the number

Every case study names the metric the client hired us to move, including the ones that took longer than we promised.

03

Systems over artefacts

A logo you cannot extend is a liability. Everything we deliver is built so your team can keep building without us.

04

Two projects at a time

More than that and someone gets the B team. We do not have a B team, so we cap the work instead.

02 / The people

Everyone here is in your files.

Noor Haddad

Founder, Strategy & Brand

Started the studio after eight years running brand programmes inside financial services. Handles positioning, the difficult client conversations, and the writing.

Amsterdam

Amsterdam

Since 2016

Since 2016

Ilias Bat

Design Director

Leads visual direction across identity and web. Trained as a typographer, which shows up in every argument about line height we have ever had.

Lisbon

Lisbon

Since 2017

Since 2017

Marit Solheim

Product Design Lead

Spent six years designing clinical software before joining. Specialises in interfaces where a wrong click costs somebody real time.

Amsterdam

Amsterdam

Since 2019

Since 2019

Tobias Renner

Design Engineer

Builds everything we hand over — Framer sites, component libraries, token pipelines. The reason our handovers survive contact with engineering.

Amsterdam

Amsterdam

Since 2020

Since 2020

Ana Quintela

Art Director, Motion

Photography direction, illustration and motion. Runs shoots, and writes the motion specs so developers do not have to guess at easing.

Lisbon

Lisbon

Since 2021

Since 2021

Samir Okonkwo

Design Systems

Audits, token architecture and the governance documents nobody thanks you for until eighteen months later.

Lisbon

Lisbon

Since 2022

Since 2022

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