naming · type · systems
Identity
Brand worlds built from one governing idea — naming, custom typography, and identity systems rigorous enough to survive their tenth year and their hundredth hire.
A cinematic creative studio
Imagination, rendered.
Aurelia turns a feeling into a finished frame — identities, films, and digital worlds directed with taste, not templates. Twelve people, no account layer, every project led by a principal.
- ✓Principal-led, always
- ✓Concept to delivery in-house
- ✓Three releases a year, by design
Atelier Noctis · launch film still
2026
Brands that trusted the studio with their light
NocturneApertureHaloLumièrePrismVantablack
Selected work
Worlds we have lit.
Four of nine projects from the last two seasons. Every plate below is rendered from the studio's single hue — like everything we ship.
01
A scent brand built entirely from one violet gradient — bottle, type, and a 60-second launch film shot in a single take.
Atelier Noctis
A perfume house bottled as light
2026
Identity · Packaging · Film
02
A regional airline rebuilt around stillness: a booking experience with no urgency banners, no countdowns, and a 31% lift in completed fares.
Meridian Air
The calmest booking flow in the sky
2026
Digital · Motion system
03
Four generations of winemaking, one engraved monogram, and a label system that ages as gracefully as what it wraps.
Cassia Vintners
A century-old label, re-set in candlelight
2025
Identity · Print
04
A modern dance company whose posters, lobby, and tickets all pulse from the same generative waveform — different every night, unmistakably Pulse.
Pulse Theatre
A season identity that breathes
2025
Identity · Environmental
12
People in the studio, by design
9
Projects taken per year, never more
74
International design awards since 2019
100%
Of work led by a founding principal
Capabilities
One studio, every frame.
Identity, film, digital, art direction, sound, and the strategy underneath — directed together so the world arrives whole.
direction · edit · score
Film & motion
Launch films, title sequences, and motion systems directed in-house. One camera language per brand, carried from the 60-second cut to the 6-second loop.
web · product · 3D
Digital worlds
Sites and products that feel art-directed, not assembled — every scroll choreographed, every interaction lit like a scene.
campaigns · stills · sets
Art direction
Campaign imagery with a single light source and a strong opinion. We direct photographers, build sets, and own the frame end to end.
sonic identity · mix
Sound
Sonic logos and scores composed for the brand world they live in. If the film is violet, the music should be too.
positioning · narrative
Strategy
The unglamorous foundation: what the brand refuses to be. Every engagement starts with a written point of view you can disagree with.
Engagements
Three ways in.
Priced as engagements, not hours. Led by a principal, every time.
The Sprint
$45kfour weeks
One concentrated problem — a launch film, a campaign, a naming sprint — answered with finished work.
- ✓One discipline, one deliverable
- ✓Principal + two studio members
- ✓Weekly working sessions
- ✓Full rights on delivery
Most studios start here
The Production
$140keight to twelve weeks
A complete brand world: identity, motion, and digital shipped as one coherent release.
- ✓Identity, film & site together
- ✓Principal-led, full studio access
- ✓Custom typography included
- ✓Launch support through release week
- ✓Brand governance playbook
The Residency
$30kper month, annual
Aurelia as your standing creative department — for brands that release as often as we do.
- ✓Reserved studio capacity
- ✓Quarterly creative reviews
- ✓All disciplines on call
- ✓First option on studio calendar
Client voices
What it is like to work this way.
Three founders and directors on the studio's particular brand of stubbornness.
“Every agency promised a brand. Aurelia delivered a world — and three years on, we still have not found its edges.”
Hélène Marchetti
Founder, Atelier Noctis
“They cut our launch film in one take because, in their words, the second take would have been a compromise. It ran for two years.”
Dmitri Okafor
CMO, Meridian Air
“The rare studio that argues with you in the first meeting and is right by the third. The work is the proof.”
June Castellanos
Artistic Director, Pulse Theatre
Imagination, rendered.
Bring us the feeling.
The calendar opens twice a year and holds nine projects. If the work above feels like your brand’s next chapter, write to the studio before the window closes.