01Independent creative agency — London and Lisbon
Rilevo is a creative agency for organisations with something genuinely difficult to explain. Strategy, identity, digital product and environments — built with enough depth to survive contact with the real world.
02What we are
Not a network agency with a local office, and not two freelancers with a shared invoice. Rilevo is a single studio, structured so that strategy, design, engineering and production sit in the same room for the whole engagement.
It is why the work still looks intentional two years after launch, when the people who commissioned it have moved on and the system has to hold its own.
03Selected work — Energy infrastructure, 2025
One identity carrying an offshore wind programme through investors, coastal towns and the engineers it still has to hire.
04Selected work — Performing arts, 2026
Turning a contemporary dance company's marketing calendar into an editorial system that runs itself.
05Selected work — Manufacturing, 2025
A naming, identity and packaging system for a steel bicycle workshop that had never sold anything directly.
06Bring us the difficult one
The category nobody has defined. The launch date that should have been six months later. The archive nobody has opened since 1994. Those are the ones this studio is built for.
Tell us what is actually wrong and we will tell you, in writing, whether we are the right people for it.
The wallRilevo — opening
Capabilities
Most of our work uses three or four of these at once, which is the whole argument for having them in the same building. You can buy one on its own — we would rather tell you when that is a bad idea.
Deciding what is true before deciding what it looks like.
A mark is the small part. The system is the job.
Design systems and the front-end engineering to hold them up.
Wayfinding, exhibition and the graphics a building has to live with.
Print that has to survive a warehouse and a bookshelf.
Moving work made from the same system as the still work.
The studio
Being owned by the people who do the work means we can turn a project down, take twice as long on the part nobody sees, and say the difficult thing in week two rather than week twenty.
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People in the studio
Two studios, one team. Nobody is a resource.
2015
Founded
Independent, employee-owned since 2021.
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Disciplines under one roof
Strategy, identity, digital, environments, editorial, film.
14 wks
Median engagement
Long enough to change something. Short enough to remember why.
Recognition
Approach
Nearly every engagement we have watched go wrong went wrong before anything was designed. So we front-load the argument and make the making boring on purpose.
01 / 2–4 weeks
We spend this stage trying to disprove the brief. Most briefs describe a symptom accurately and a cause badly, and the gap between the two is where the project actually is.
02 / 2–3 weeks
The argument becomes a set of constraints. Not moodboards — constraints. What the work must always do, what it must never do, and the measure everything will be judged against.
03 / 4–14 weeks
Three-week cycles. At the end of each you see real work at real size in its real context — printed, on a screen at 360 px, mocked at the actual signage scale. Never a rendering of a rendering.
Selected work
Each case study includes the outcome, the credits and the part we would do differently. Those last paragraphs are the ones worth reading.
One identity carrying an offshore wind programme through investors, coastal towns and the engineers it still has to hire.
Turning a contemporary dance company's marketing calendar into an editorial system that runs itself.
A naming, identity and packaging system for a steel bicycle workshop that had never sold anything directly.
Rebuilding a national photographic archive's taxonomy, search and exhibition identity around what people actually look for.
Naming, identity, interior graphics and a voice system for a three-site club that refused every convention of the category.
Journal
Occasional, long, and written by whoever did the work rather than by a marketing team. No newsletter, no gate.
Conservators light an object from the side to see what a flat photograph hides. It is also the only honest way to review a brand.
Almost every project we have watched go wrong went wrong before anything was designed. Here is what we now do instead.
The fee is the part everyone negotiates and rarely the part that hurts. An honest accounting of the other four costs.
Start a project
We answer every enquiry in writing within five working days, including the ones we decline — with the reason, and usually with someone else to ask.