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ORBIT° studio
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Toronto · Canada
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[ 01 ] Independent design studio · Est. 2017
Booking now · Q3 — Q4 2026
Selected client list · invitation by application
Selected client list · invitation by application
For teams who insist on the work.
Brand, product and digital craft — built deliberately small, shipped on Fridays. Not a typical agency.
— [ Practice ]
Brand, product &
digital craft
For pre-IPO, scale-up, and ambitious early teams
digital craft
For pre-IPO, scale-up, and ambitious early teams
— [ Studio ]
Eight senior makers,
one room
No juniors. No outsourcing. No exceptions.
one room
No juniors. No outsourcing. No exceptions.
— [ Engagement ]
From $7,500 / mo
Monthly retainer
Pause anytime · two projects parallel
Monthly retainer
Pause anytime · two projects parallel
Brand identity
Product design
Digital experience
Motion + direction
[ 01 ] Our approach
A different kind
A different kind
of studio.
Traditional agencies perfected the pitch. We perfected the work — by refusing meetings as a deliverable, treating every Friday as a ship day, and keeping the room small enough to fit in one Zoom.
After fifteen years inside large agencies I kept seeing the same pattern repeat. Talented designers stuck in meetings. Clients paying for process instead of progress. Great ideas dying in revision purgatory.
So I built ORBIT deliberately small — eight senior makers, no juniors, no handoffs, no theater.
RS
Alex West
Founder · Creative Director
Studio · Spadina Ave · Toronto
[ 02 ] Selected work
Case studies
Case studies
© 2017 — 2026
Six recent engagements across brand identity, product, and digital. The archive holds 28 more — happy to share the full reel after a first call.
01 · QUANTUM↗02 · CUBEKIT↗Cubekit
03 · EPHEMERAL↗Ephemeral
04 · WARPSPEED↗Warpspeed OS
05 · MAGNOLIA↗Magnolia
06 · NORTH BANK↗North Bank
07 · ATELIER↗Atelier Lumen
— Studio philosophy
"We don't show up with a slide deck.
We show up with a sharpie and a question."
We show up with a sharpie and a question."
[ 03 ] Why ORBIT°
We deliver design.
We deliver design.
And momentum.
Great design shortens sales cycles, lifts conversion and earns trust before you say a word. We build advantages that compound — quarter after quarter, retainer after retainer.
2017 · founded
2019 · 25 clients
2022 · 50 clients
2025 · 100+ clients
2026 · you?
Revenue impact
$84M+ shipped
Revenue generated for our clients across 100+ brand and product launches since 2017. Median lift in trial-to-paid conversion: +312% in Q1 post-launch.
Speed
3×
Faster than typical agencies. Sprints, not seasons.
Global reach
28×countries
From pre-seed founders in Berlin to Fortune 100 product teams in Singapore.
Client rating
4.9/5
Average rating across Clutch, G2 and Dribbble combined · 87 reviews · 96% would refer us.
Press
14features
Sidebar, Site Inspire, Awwwards SOTM × 4.
[ 04 ] Services
Full spectrum.
Full spectrum.
One roof.
Whether you need a complete brand overhaul or ongoing creative support — we have the in-house expertise to ship it. No outsourcing, no excuses, no junior designers running point on senior decisions.
[ 01 ]
Brand identity
Complete brand systems that capture your essence and stand out in market. Strategy, naming, visual identity, motion identity, brand guidelines.
LogoVisual IDGuidelinesNaming
[ 02 ]
Digital design
Websites and digital experiences that convert. We design with purpose — user journeys that turn visitors into customers without sacrificing the craft.
WebLandingE-comMicro-sites
[ 03 ]
Product design
UI/UX that makes complex products feel simple. We balance user needs with business goals to create experiences that actually work in production.
UI/UXSystemsMobileSaaS
[ 04 ]
Motion & direction
Strategic creative that moves. From product launch reels to brand films and pitch deck animation — we direct, design, and animate it all in-house.
Brand filmsProduct reelsDecksLogo motion
[ 05 ]
Development
Clean code that brings the design to life. Fast, responsive, and pixel-perfect across every device. Framer, Webflow, or React — your choice.
FramerWebflowReactCMS
"ORBIT didn't rebrand us — they reframed how we go to market. Three months after launch, our pipeline doubled and trial-to-paid conversion lifted 312%."
Elena Park
Co-founder, Quantum Health · Series B
+312%
Trial → paid conversion lift in the first quarter after relaunch — measured against the previous twelve-month baseline. Independent attribution review by The North Star Group.
[ 05 ] Process
No reveals.
No reveals.
Just progress.
Refined across hundreds of engagements. Every step minimizes friction and maximizes shipping cadence. You'll always know what's next — and what just shipped.
01
Discover
Every engagement starts with understanding. We dive deep into your business and constraints. No assumptions — just the questions nobody else thought to ask.
02
Align
Before pixels move, we align on direction. Whether brand identity or product redesign — we make sure we're solving the right problem first.
03
Sprint
Focused weekly cycles with check-ins every Friday. You see progress in days — no surprise reveals, no recycled stock concepts.
04
Iterate
Your feedback shapes the work. We refine until everyone in the room is genuinely excited about where it's landing.
05
Launch
Polish, handoff, post-launch support. We stick around through go-live to make sure the work lands and the team can carry it forward.
A closer look / ORBIT°
Good work starts with a better question.
Share the challenge, your team and what a successful outcome would change.
Tell us what is nextBehind the work
A clear idea, carried all the way through.
Find the real question
Define the audience, the challenge and what the work should help people understand or do.
Build a point of view
Explore a focused creative direction through prototypes, references and thoughtful conversation.
Make it work in the world
Refine the details and agree the deliverables, handover and support needed for launch.
Good to knowA few things
A few things
you might ask.
What makes a useful project brief?
Include your audience, the challenge, expected deliverables, timing and any budget parameters. An unfinished brief is still a good place to begin.
Can you work with an existing identity or team?
Outline the assets, collaborators and decisions already in place so the project can build on what is working.
How is a project scoped?
The proposal should define deliverables, review stages, responsibilities and timing before production begins.
The next step
Tell us what is next.
Share the challenge, your team and what a successful outcome would change.