About

Komono is an independent design studio. The name means “small things” in Japanese — the pockets, straps and fittings that make an object usable. We think that’s where design lives: not in the grand gesture, but in the hundred small decisions nobody notices when they’re right.

We work across identity, web, print and motion for cultural and commercial clients. The studio stays deliberately small; everything that leaves it has been touched by the people whose names are on it.

What we do

• Brand identity and art direction
• Websites, design systems and front-end builds
• Books, reports and printed matter
• Title sequences and motion systems

How we work

We take on a handful of projects a year and start each one the same way: by understanding the thing before styling it. Budgets are fixed, timelines are honest, and we present one direction — the one we believe in — not three.