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    Your logo nearly works

    Keep what people recognise. Redraw the rest.

    Logo reinterpretation keeps the parts of a mark customers already recognise, the silhouette, the counter, the colour, and redraws everything else as three directions you judge printed on real stock.

    Guide price
    from US$ 1.450
    Scope
    three directions, one round
    Turnaround
    2 to 3 weeks

    Guide price. Every project is quoted — tell us what it is for and we come back with a number. Most reinterpretations land between US$ 1.450 and US$ 2.800. Half of every design fee is credited against your first print order over US$ 600.

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    Alvarez Stone · the final stone A, relief rules in one ink

    From a real project · Alvarez Stone

    Full tonal relief → Etched, one ink

    The final mark. The sculptural feeling is carried by line weight instead of tone: each rule thickens into shadow and thins across a lit face, so one plate describes the whole form.

    Read the Alvarez Stone case study →
    Alvarez Stone: Full tonal relief compared with Etched, one ink
    Full tonal reliefEtched, one ink

    How it runs

    Four steps, each one on paper.

    1. 01

      Start with the real piece

      Show us the mark customers know. We agree which parts must stay before drawing anything new.

    2. 02

      See the directions on stock

      Three distinct directions on the actual printed application, not marks floating on a screen.

    3. 03

      Refine and resolve

      One chosen direction is refined against your feedback and the limits of the selected process.

    4. 04

      Receive the production files

      Outlined vector masters, process separations and a spec sheet naming what the press needs to hold.

    The handoff

    What you get.

    • Three drawn directions, shown printed rather than flat
    • One round of refinement on the chosen direction
    • Final mark with mono, reversed and small-size variants
    • Separated artwork per process
    • Spec sheet and usage notes
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    Shading quantised into flat planes
    Shading quantised into flat planes
    Marrow, a studio identity study: debossed oxblood glaze stamp in ceramic
    Mono version drawn for deboss · Marrow — Debossed oxblood glaze stamp in ceramic

    Is this the right service?

    When you need this. When you don't.

    Production standards

    The details that matter here.

    Edge of black cotton cards with gold foil

    The mark at small size

    Test open counters and minimum strokes at the size of the finished piece, not on a large monitor.

    Business card sizes →
    Rolls of hot stamping foil

    Metallic marks

    An ink gradient cannot simply become a foil gradient: the die needs one solid separation.

    Foil stamping →

    Questions before we start.

    Will my customers still recognise the logo?

    That is the constraint we work inside. We agree what is load-bearing — the silhouette, the counter, the colour — before any drawing starts, and those elements do not move.

    Why does my emboss look muddy?

    Emboss needs open counters and a single clear depth. Detail under about 1.5 mm collapses when the paper stretches. A reinterpretation opens the mark up so the depth reads.

    What if I dislike all three directions?

    Tell us what missed before choosing one to refine. If the brief has fundamentally changed, we discuss the new scope before drawing again.

    Do I own the finished files?

    Yes. The approved artwork and its production files are yours. Fonts licensed from others remain subject to their licence.

    Can you keep my colours and existing artwork?

    Send the best original file you have and your colour references. We keep what survives the actual stock and process, then show any unavoidable change before approval.

    Updated September 2026