Jun 2026
Process
6 min
Design in the open, decide in the room
Sharing rough work early is the fastest way to a good result, and the scariest, which is exactly why it works.
Nova Kessler, multidisciplinary designer
Design with apoint of view
A multidisciplinary designer working across brand, product and motion, for founders and studios who want one person with taste to own the whole thing.
- 12
- Years designing
- 140+
- Projects
- 52
- Clients
About
A generalist, unapologetically
I have spent twelve years refusing to pick a lane. Brand one month, a product interface the next, a motion piece after that, because the interesting problems rarely respect the boundaries between disciplines, and the best solutions borrow from all of them.
What that buys a client is coherence. When one person holds the brand, the product and the way it moves, the seams disappear, and the seams are usually where a project quietly falls apart.
One person across brand, product and motion
Taste, backed by a reason for every decision
Systems, so the work outlives the engagement
Direct, weekly, no account-manager telephone game
Work
Selected projects
Six recent pieces, sized by how much they have to say. Hover to bring one forward.
Journal
Words on the work
Occasional notes on process, craft and the business of freelancing well.
Mar 2026
Craft
8 min
A grid is a promise, not a prison
The best layouts feel effortless because the grid did the arguing in private, before anyone saw the page.
Dec 2025
Career
5 min
On staying a generalist on purpose
Specialising is safer advice. Being the person who can do the whole thing has, for me, been the more interesting bet.
Services
What I can make with you
Four disciplines, one sensibility. Most projects use two of them; the ambitious ones use all four.
Brand & identity
Marks, type and the system that keeps them coherent when you are not in the room to police it.
- Positioning
- Logo & wordmark
- Type system
- Guidelines
Product & web
Interfaces designed to be built, from the first messy sketch to a system a team can ship against.
- UX & flows
- UI design
- Design systems
- Prototypes
Art direction
Photography, illustration and the standard everything is held to once the project has left my desk.
- Direction
- Commissioning
- Shoot
- Retouch
Motion
How the work behaves. Title sequences, product motion and the timing that makes it feel like one thing.
- Principles
- Storyboards
- Animation
- Delivery
By the numbers
12
Years designing
140+
Projects launched
52
Happy clients
7
Awards
FAQ
Before you get in touch
Fair question. I do brand, product and motion to a professional standard and I am honest about the edges of what I do. I bring in a specialist when a project genuinely needs one rather than fake it. The value is coherence across the disciplines, not being the single best in the world at any one.
Contact
Have something in mind?
Tell me what it is, when it needs to exist, and roughly the budget. All three, ideally. The third one saves us both a week of dancing around it.
hello@astra.studio
Based
Copenhagen · remote worldwide
Response
Usually within a day
Elsewhere
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