If it gets messy, we design a system, build a tool, or invent a method.
Bureau 1217 is a design studio for projects that don’t fit neatly into one discipline.We move between graphic design, user research and code, often making our own tools along the way.We care as much about how things behave as how they look.We start with what is already there: people, content, constraints and oddities, then figure out what the project needs.It all happens at the same desk.
Our services
Expertise
- Brand strategy & positioning
- Naming & editorial identity
- Visual identity & logo
- Art direction
- Communication campaigns
- Social media & content systems
- Editorial design
- Motion design
Typical outputs
- Brand platforms
- Visual identity systems
- Brand guidelines
- Campaign concepts
- Social media toolkits
- Editorial templates
- Motion principles
- Print & digital assets
We shape the visual and editorial language of brands, institutions and cultural projects. From positioning and naming to visual identity, communication campaigns and social media, we create graphic and editorial systems that stay coherent across formats while giving brands, institutions and cultural projects room to evolve.
Expertise
- Information architecture
- UX & UI design
- Prototyping
- Web design
- Front-end development
- CMS & back-office design
- Design systems
- Accessibility
Typical outputs
- Websites
- Platforms
- Digital tools
- Web applications
- Interactive archives
- Content platforms
- Design systems
- CMS & back offices
We design the part people see and the system that makes it work. <br><br>Websites, platforms and digital tools are developed as a whole, from information architecture and UX/UI to front-end development and content management.
Expertise
- User research
- Interviews & field research
- Co-design
- Workshop design & facilitation
- User testing
- Participatory design
- Design research
- Teaching & mentoring
Typical Outputs
- Qualitative & quantitative studies
- Stakeholder mapping
- Trend & foresight reports
- Accessibility & usability audits
- Teaching curricula
- Educational toolkits
We design with people, not just for them.<br><br>Through user research, interviews, workshops and testing, we bring different perspectives into the design process early enough to shape the outcome. We also teach, facilitate and develop formats that help teams, students and institutions think through design together.
Typical project includes
- Creative coding
- Custom tool development
- Generative systems
- Interactive systems
- Data-driven design
- Physical & digital interaction
More Details
- Interactive installations
- Generative identities & visual systems
- Custom software & design tools
- Data visualisations
- Physical-digital experiences
- Experimental websites & interfaces
- Real-time visual systems
We use code as a design material. <br><br>We build interactive systems, generative tools and digital experiments that respond to content, data, people or their environment. Sometimes the result is a public-facing experience, sometimes it is a tool made specifically for the project.
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