Brand systems
Logo, type, colour and voice built as a system your whole team can use without us in the room.
Identity & guidelines
Brand & product design studio
Considered design for brands ready to be taken seriously.
Halcyon is a small studio designing brand systems, websites and product interfaces for ambitious teams. Senior on every project, obsessive about the details most people never notice.
Design partner to 40+ teams
Most projects ship in six weeks
Trusted by teams building what comes next
Northwind
Lumena
Cartogram
Fieldnote
Aperture
Basalt
What we make
Three disciplines, one standard.
We keep the team small on purpose, so the senior people who pitch your project are the ones who draw every screen.
Websites
Design and build in one place — sites that load fast, rank well and stay genuinely easy to edit.
Design & buildProduct design
From first flows to polished UI, interface work grounded in how people actually use the thing.
Flows & interface
Selected work
Cartogram
A mapping platform, made legible.
Cartogram had powerful software and a homepage nobody understood. We rebuilt the brand around a single idea — clarity — then redesigned the marketing site and the in-app dashboard to match. Trial sign-ups doubled in the first quarter.
2×
trial sign-ups
6 wk
brand to launch
Cartogram — brand refresh & dashboard redesign
How we work
A short, deliberate path to launch.
Discover
A week of questions, an audit and a plan we both sign off on before a pixel moves.
Design
Directions first, then refinement. You see real work early and often — no big reveal.
Build
We design in the browser, so what you approve is exactly what ships. No surprises.
Handover
Files, components and a walkthrough — you leave able to run it without us.
120+
projects shipped since 2016
40+
brands we’ve partnered with
6
week average, brief to launch
94%
of clients come back for more
Halcyon treated our launch like it was their own company on the line. The brand still turns heads two years later, and we have never once had to explain what we do.
Ways to work together
Engagements sized to the work.
Flat project pricing, agreed up front — never an hourly invoice you did not expect. Every engagement is led end to end by a senior designer.
Sprint
$6ktwo-week sprint
A focused burst — a landing page, a single-product rebrand, or a design audit with the fixes done.
- One senior designer
- Daily check-ins
- Ready-to-ship files
Partner
$18kper project
The full arc — a brand, a website or a product taken from brief to launch as one considered whole.
- Brand, web or product scope
- Design and build included
- Weekly working sessions
- Two weeks of launch support
Embedded
Custommonthly
We join your team for a season — an extra senior hand on design, on a rolling monthly basis.
- A dedicated designer
- Your tools and standups
- Pause or stop anytime
Questions
The things people ask first.
If yours is not here, send it over — you will get a straight answer, not a sales call.
How big is the team?
Small on purpose. Halcyon is a senior studio — the people you meet are the people who do the work, not a sales layer in front of juniors.
How much does a project cost?
Most projects land between six and twenty thousand dollars, agreed as a flat fee before we start. You will never get an hourly invoice you did not expect.
How long does it take?
A focused sprint is two weeks; a full brand or site is usually six. We give you real dates on the first call and hold to them.
Do you design and build, or just design?
Both. We design in the browser and hand over a site that is live and easy to edit — not a folder of mockups someone else has to interpret.
What do you need from us?
A little time and honest feedback. One decision-maker who can approve work keeps everything moving; we handle the rest.
Start a project
Tell us what you’re making.
A few lines about the project and where it is headed is plenty. You will hear back from a real person — usually the one who would lead the work — within a day.