Author: Tom May

Ten years ago, two designers in Vilnius, Augustinas Paukštė and Doman Mikšys, launched Andstudio with no clients and no plan. Today, they have 14 people on staff, a client list including Ikea, NordVPN and the Berlin character design festival Pictoplasma, whose new identity we covered last month. In 2025, Andstudio was ranked the number one...

A creative writes: “I’ve been working with a client for nearly two years. Every job starts as ‘something really simple’. The brief changes halfway through. Finished projects come back from the dead. And somehow, I always end up agreeing to one more thing. I’ve been calling it a learning experience. But I think I’ve had...