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Studio / Est. 2017

Small team.Big noise.

Designers, developers, animators and writers in one room in Lower Parel. No account managers in between.

The Voltface studio during a workshop

What we believe

Good design is a decision, not a decoration. We help teams make the brave one, then we sweat every pixel until it holds up.

The leads

+ six more humans and one studio dog
Portrait of Nikhil Rao
Founder · Creative Director

Nikhil Rao

Ex-newspaper art director. Believes every brand needs one thing it is not afraid to be loud about.

Portrait of Sana Qureshi
Design Director

Sana Qureshi

Type nerd, grid enforcer, keeper of the guidelines. Runs every crit with a red marker.

Portrait of Ishaan Bose
Technical Lead

Ishaan Bose

Builds the sites the designers dream up and makes them load in under a second.

Portrait of Leela Menon
Motion Lead

Leela Menon

Animates logos, edits films and times every transition to the beat of something.

Portrait of Omar Siddiqui
Strategy & Copy

Omar Siddiqui

Asks 'why' until the brief gets honest, then writes the line everybody remembers.

Portrait of Priya Natarajan
Producer

Priya Natarajan

Keeps the schedule, the budget and the studio snacks in check. Nobody misses a deadline on her watch.

Screen-printing posters in the studio
Paper studies for an identity
Drawers of wooden type
Neon sign test for a launch
A moodboard on the brick wall
Light and shadow on the mill stairs
Testing a prototype on a phone

Life atthe mill

The story so far

  1. 2017

    Two desks, one printer

    Started in a borrowed corner of a print shop in Parel. First client: a neighbourhood bakery.

  2. 2019

    The first big swing

    A festival identity that got pasted on half the walls in the city. The phone started ringing.

  3. 2021

    Code joins design

    We hired developers and stopped handing off. Every site we design, we build.

  4. 2023

    Motion lab

    A small motion and film team, because brands now live mostly on screens that move.

  5. 2026

    Twelve and counting

    Still small on purpose. Still at the Friday crit every week.

12People
140+Projects
11Countries served
468Friday crits held

Kind words

01 / 06
They listened to our shows for a month before drawing a single line. The new identity sounds like us, which I didn't know a logo could do.
Rhea Sequeira
Station Director, Pulse FM

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