Cardbird Studio · est. 2019

a design studio that plays every hand dealt.

Brand identity, digital product, print and art direction — run by a small team that stays at the table from the first sketch to the launch.

the studio

small table, full attention.

Cardbird is four designers and a rotating cast of collaborators. No account layer, no handoff to a junior team — the people who pitch the work are the people who make it.

We started in 2019 doing identity work for people who make physical things — roasters, binders, ceramicists — and grew into the screens those brands live on. That order matters to us: the mark, the system, then the product.

“Every brief is a hand. Read the table, commit to a play, and show your cards when it counts.”

Engagements run from three-week identity sprints to year-long product partnerships. Whatever the length, you get a named team, a shared board, and weekly reviews against real work — never a slide about work.

founded
2019
projects shipped
60+
industries
12
studios
Lisbon · Berlin

the hand

four suits, one deck.

Most projects pull from more than one. We scope them together so the brand, the product and the print never drift apart.

selected work

a few hands we’ve played.

Representative projects across identity, product and print. Full case studies on request.

how we play

the same four moves, every time.

A real sequence, not a phase diagram. Each step ends with something you can look at.

the deal

A working session to lay out goals, constraints and what winning looks like. You leave with a scope and a fixed price.

reading the table

Research, audit and references. We come back with a direction and the reasoning behind it — before any polish.

playing the hand

Design in weekly rounds against real content. You see rough and refined, never just the safe middle.

showing your cards

Files, systems and a walkthrough for whoever carries it next. We stay reachable after launch.

contact

got a hand
worth playing?

Tell us a little about the project. We reply to everything within two working days.

or email hello@cardbird.studio

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