71-75 Shelton Street, Covent Garden, London WC2H 9JQ
Independent studio · London

Design that earns the second look.

Whippet is a small, senior team making brands, products, and digital experiences for people who care about the details.

Brand · Digital Our two core practices
Senior‑led No juniors on your project
Small by design A handful of clients at a time
Whippet
Studio · London
Selected work Brand
systems
that move.
Now booking 2026
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Manifesto

A studio built for work that lasts.

Most design work doesn't fail because it isn't beautiful. It fails because it isn't useful — because it wasn't grounded in a real problem, or because it couldn't survive the business it was made for.

We work the opposite way. Small team, senior hands, long attention. Fewer clients, deeper work. The kind of design that stays right when the trends move on.

Whippet was founded on the belief that independence — freedom from the wrong kind of meetings, from work that dilutes, from the pressure to grow for its own sake — is what allows good design to happen. We keep the studio deliberately small so that the person who pitches the work is the person who does it. Every time.

M
Michael Henry Davies
Founder & Creative Director
What we do

Four practices. One discipline.

We work across brand and digital — but never as an a la carte menu. Each practice is strongest when it's connected to the others.

— 01

Brand Identity

Naming, positioning, logotype, systems, and the language that holds them together. Brands built to be lived in, not just looked at.

NamingIdentitySystemsGuidelines
— 02

Digital Product

Websites, apps, and interfaces designed around real behaviour — with a bias toward clarity, speed, and craft.

UXUIDesign systemsPrototyping
— 03

Motion & Film

Motion built with intent — brand films, interface animation, and content that earns its runtime.

Brand filmMotion designEditing
— 04

Creative Direction

Ongoing creative leadership for teams that need a steady hand — on brand, on product, on what comes next.

AdvisoryCampaignsArt direction
— 05

Web Development

Front-end build for studios, startups, and the independently-minded. Fast, accessible, well-made.

Front-endCMSPerformance
— 06

Studio Partnerships

White-label support for other studios and agencies — quietly, on-brand, and without a footprint.

White-labelOverflowSpecialist
Selected work

A few things we're proud of.

We don't list everything. Just the work that best shows how we think.

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Brand · Identity
Northbound

A brand system for a slow-travel company

Naming, identity, and editorial system for a company that runs small, deliberate journeys through northern Europe.

Brand
Digital · Product
Tessera

Interface design for a collaborative writing tool

A calm, distraction-free writing environment built around the way real writers actually work.

Digital
Motion
Ash & Co

Brand film for a London atelier

A short film about the craft behind a small-batch ceramics studio in East London.

Motion
Web · Editorial
Field Notes

Editorial platform for a research collective

A quietly confident home for long-form essays, designed around reading above all else.

Web
How we work

Four steps. No theatre.

01

Listen

We start with conversations, not briefs. What's actually going on? What's been tried? What matters more than we'd guess?

02

Frame

We turn what we've heard into a clear creative problem — one worth solving, and specific enough to solve well.

03

Make

We design, refine, and iterate in the open. Fewer big reveals, more small decisions made together.

04

Hand over

We finish with the tools, systems, and documentation that let your team run what we've made — long after we've gone.

Client voices

What it's like to work with us.

Journal

Notes from the studio.

Occasional writing on design, craft, and the quiet parts of running a studio.

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Got something worth making well?

We're always glad to hear about new work — early conversations are free, and we're honest about whether we're the right fit.