Studio - About
A studio with
convictions.
Studio - Zurich, 2025
01 - Origin
Founded on the belief that clarity is the highest form of sophistication.
Atelier Nord was founded in Zurich in 2017 by Elara Strom after a decade leading brand programs at studios in Switzerland and the United Kingdom. The practice was built around a single conviction: that the most lasting design work is the work that has been most rigorously thought through.
We are a small studio by intention. We do not scale by adding bodies to projects. We scale by deepening our understanding of the problems we are asked to solve.
Our practice is organized around the Swiss editorial tradition - not as aesthetic nostalgia, but as a methodology. Grid systems, typographic hierarchy, and structural rigor are not constraints to work around. They are the tools that make complex communication possible.
02 - What We Believe
01
We believe that good design is a form of clear thinking made visible.
02
We do not believe in trends. We believe in principles.
03
We design for the decade after next, not the quarter ahead.
04
We think typography is the primary material of our practice, not a secondary consideration.
05
We make things that are difficult to explain and impossible to miss.
03 - People
The Team
Elara Strom
Founder, Creative Direction
Elara founded Atelier Nord in 2017 after a decade leading brand programs at studios in Zurich and London. She is obsessed with the relationship between typographic decision and institutional credibility.
Caspar Weil
Senior Designer, Identity
Caspar brings a print-first sensibility to everything he works on. His background in letterpress and type design means he thinks about marks at the level of individual strokes before he considers their systemic function.
Miriam Osei
Strategy Director
Miriam leads all strategy engagements and the naming practice. She writes about branding with a rigor she learned in academia and a directness she learned from ten years of client work.
Henrik Nass
Designer, Editorial + Motion
Henrik's practice spans print editorial and motion, with a particular interest in how time-based media can be designed with the same structural logic as a page.
127
Completed Projects
9
Years in Practice
4
Disciplines
31
Countries Reached
04 - Selected Clients
Scandinavian Design Council01
Forma Architecture02
Veld Finance03
Haus Contemporary Gallery04
Resin Capital Partners05
Loden Hotels06
Oslo Biennial07
Meridian Publishing08
Carte Blanche Labs09
The Index Foundation10
Work with us.
We are currently accepting new commissions for 2026. Introductions welcome.