A Different Kind Of Partnership.
With experience across startups, global clients and corporates, we’ve seen how traditional structures can slow down great ideas. So we came together to build a different kind of agency — an agency that acts almost like an in-house team — but with the perspective and punch of a creative studio.
How We Work
While every project is different, we approach each the same. Working with you side-by-side, we’re an agile collective of experienced designers, writers, and developers who understand that every brand has its own story to tell. Our process is transparent, strategic and built around a real partnership - from concept to launch, we create imaginative and exciting solutions with our focus, energy and expertise.
Listen
We’re collaborative and comprehensive. Before any lines are drawn or code written, we get to know you and your business - and the milestones to hit.
Cultivate
It’s all in the details. Our people take pride in producing quality work, from thoughtful design to powerful code, we build with care and flare.
Guide
Driven by empathy and behavioural insight, we direct experiences that feel natural, engaging and genuinely useful. Made for people, by people.
Partner
We think the best work happens together. We’ve shaped our studio to be lean, agile and immersive - a team that feels like an extension of yours.
Who We Are
James
With 20 years spent navigating the intersection of design, business, and tech, James founded se.studio to get back to what matters: actually fixing brand challenges. Having bridged the gap between creative and commercial strategy at giants like Nokia and Microsoft, he now applies that "dual-lens" perspective to a smaller, more agile stage. For James, the studio is a place where cross-disciplinary experience meets genuine collaboration to turn complex problems into human-centric solutions.
Margaretha
Margaretha’s scope of work as a Designer embodies shaping concepts and creating brand identities, spatial, exhibition, and digital experiences. Prior to SE Studio she worked as a Senior Design Specialist at Microsoft and in Nokia’s Brand and Integrated Design Team. She was a founding partner and creative of Blueroom Designstudio in Oslo, Norway for eight years.
Lindsay
Across nearly three decades of practice, Lindsay has cultivated a discipline rooted in strategic thinking, conceptual inquiry, and the choreography of form. His work moves fluidly across scale and context, shaping identities for early-stage ventures, global institutions, and cultural bodies alike. For him, branding is a discipline of ideas—thoughtful, dimensional, and designed to endure—imbued with a deep sensitivity to expression.
Ty
Ty is an interdisciplinary creative technologist specializing in visual communication and content creation, working between the inter-section of technology and design to create engaging experiences. Living in the heart of design - London, he has worked at leading design studios and agencies over the past 20 years including Microsoft, Nokia, Spin, and IDEO.
Nick
Nick is a successful technologist, innovator, and product architect who understands how to use technology to solve real commercial problems. He uses his experience to help bridge the gap between the technical and design areas, translating technology to design and vice-versa. Technology innovation and data processing are just a few areas that keeps Nick busy, big data is a mystery to others but seems to be child’s play to Nick.
Mark
Mark combines six years of professional web development with a global perspective, having lived in six European countries. He focuses on creating websites that pair aesthetic elegance with seamless performance. Outside of work, Mark harnesses performance of a different kind, as a 2:29 marathoner and avid mountaineer.
Emma
Emma is multi-talented bringing her skills of copywriting, marketing, and social expertise in combination with project management and producing. She has a high standard of customer service in mind, ensuring the team reaches the best solutions. She has many years of experience from branding projects, to digital and spatial. She has implemented marketing and advertising concepts for all channels.
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Our Studios
Born from friendship and cross-continental experience between London and San Francisco, we combine the feel of an in-house team with creative studio punch.