The Slow Issue
2026Editorial
A 220-page magazine about doing less, better. Set in a single typeface across four weights, with a grid you can feel but never see.
Work, 2018 to 2026
Art direction and editorial design for people who make things slowly. Each of these ran for a year or more, because the good ones always do.
Index
Editorial
A 220-page magazine about doing less, better. Set in a single typeface across four weights, with a grid you can feel but never see.
Identity
An identity for a coastal ceramicist, drawn from the marks a kiln leaves. The wordmark took eleven versions; the eleventh was the first one, refined.
Book design
A series of essay collections where the footnotes are the design. Reading them is meant to feel like being lent someone’s annotated copy.
Art direction
Ten years of environmental research turned into an exhibition and a book, art-directed so the data never once got in the way of the story.
Identity
A civic identity flexible enough for nine departments and strict enough that none of them could make it ugly.
Editorial
A wine merchant’s annual, printed letterpress, where the tasting notes are set like poetry because, read aloud, that is what they are.
Contact
What it is, roughly when, and what you can spend. All three, ideally. The third one saves us both a fortnight of politeness.
Enquiries
studio@marfa.design
Studio
By appointment, Lisbon
Telephone
+351 21 099 4420
Elsewhere
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