hola! from Berlin
we are
m—e studio
We help you find your way and make sure everyone else can see it too.
We work across branding, editorial, and digital experience design — but what connects everything is simpler, we help projects figure out what they need to say, and say it in a way that works, in print, on screen, and five years from now. Sometimes that starts before the design, thinking through how a business communicates, what it prioritises, who it’s really talking to.
We choose carefully whether we believe in what the client is building. Artists, institutions, businesses with something real to say. That’s where we do our best work.
We’re the one that keeps thinking about your project long after the files are delivered. We get more involved than is strictly necessary. We care more than is probably healthy.
We work best with clients who take their work seriously. Whether they know exactly what they need or are still figuring it out.
markos & esther
our services
At its core, what we do is graphic design, applied strategically to branding, editorial, and digital experience.
For branding, that means building visual identities that hold up across every context, from a logo to a full communication system. For editorial, it means giving structure and clarity to complex content; books, catalogues, reports, publications that are as functional as they are considered. For digital, it means designing the interfaces and experiences through which people interact with your project; websites, apps, tools, and platforms that work as well as they look.
What connects all three is the same question: how does this need to communicate, and to whom? We start there, whatever the medium.
Branding · Visual identity · Brand strategy · Editorial design · Publications · UX/UI · Web design · Digital experience
work process
We create valuable solutions using a lean methodology
1
listen
We start by understanding what you’re trying to achieve, who you’re talking to, and what’s getting in the way. Sometimes that conversation leads to the brief. Sometimes it changes it.
2
think
Research, concept development, and strategic direction. We work closely with you at every step — not presenting finished ideas, but building them together.
3
make
Proposals, prototypes, and the final build. We refine until it’s right, not until the budget runs out.
4
stay
We stay involved after delivery. Good design needs to work in the real world, and we keep thinking about your project long after the files are delivered.
selected partnership
and here we are
We’re markos and esther, the two people behind m—e studio, based in Berlin.
Markos is from Chile, Esther from Spain. We’ve been working together for years, and between us we cover the full process. Strategy, creative direction, visual systems, UX, editorial, and the conversations with clients that make all of it possible.
Both of us trained as design engineers, which means we think about how things work as much as how they look. No big team, no fancy office. Just years of practice across disciplines and the kind of commitment that doesn’t clock out.
markos in practice, the creative and technical lead, thinks in systems, builds with precision, and brings to every project the same curiosity he puts into making music.
esther ended up doing what engineers rarely do: leading the relationships that make good work possible. Directs the studio, shapes the direction of every project, and notices the details everyone else misses.
