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Halle 04
Identity and wayfinding for a former power station, reopened as a public archive.
Sector
Cultural
Year
2025
Photography by Andrea De Santis
A creative practice for brands that prefer the long quiet over the loud quarter.
Arête is a four-person studio working with hotels, cultural institutions, and founders who would rather be remembered than recommended. We take on six projects a year. We work in person where we can, in writing where we cannot, and we never outsource taste.
Identity and wayfinding for a former power station, reopened as a public archive.
Brand book, signage, and a thirty-page guest manual for a fjord-side retreat in northern Norway.
Naming, marks, type, and the quiet rules that hold them together.
Brand books, longform layouts, and content systems that read like a magazine.
Marketing sites, product narratives, and digital surfaces with a slow heartbeat.
Art direction across film, still, and physical print. Always our line, never a stock shelf.
We read your previous work, walk your spaces if we can, and write a one-page brief that you correct line by line. Nothing else happens until that page is right.
Identity, voice, and the first three surfaces, drawn together. We show fewer rounds and stay longer in each one. You receive one decision per week, never twenty at once.
Once the work ships we stay on as quiet stewards. New collateral, type system upkeep, the next chapter. The relationship is the deliverable.
“A studio that listens before it speaks. Their work reads like architecture: considered, structural, quiet enough to hold meaning for a decade.”
