Designer & art director building brands with edges.

Independent, Rotterdam-based. I help culture and technology teams look like themselves — identity, editorial and the screens in between.

Selected work

Selected work

Portrait of the designer in the studio

About

I've spent twelve years making brands that don't blend in — six in studios in Amsterdam and Berlin, six on my own.

I work with a small circle of collaborators (a strategist, two developers, a motion designer) and bring them in per project. That means you get a senior team without an agency's overheads, and I stay on the work from kickoff to the last handoff file.

  • Now Independent practice, Rotterdam
  • Before Studio Dumbar, Edenspiekermann
  • Teaching Type & identity, WdKA
  • Recognition ADCN, Type Directors Club

Services

How I'm usually brought in

01

Brand identity

Naming support, logotype, type and colour systems, art direction and a guideline the team can actually use.

02

Editorial & print

Reports, books, catalogues and campaign print — from grid to press check.

03

Digital product

Design systems, marketing sites and product UI, built with my developers or handed to yours.

04

Art direction

Photography, illustration and motion direction for a launch or an ongoing brand.

Selected clients

RijksmuseumBandcampDezeenKPNMoMA Design StoreFabriqueEurosonicNRC

Contact

Have a project?

studio@ilsevogt.example

Currently booking projects starting Q3 2026. For anything urgent, say so in the subject line.