Landscape is an integrated creative studio providing brand strategy, design systems, and campaign production to clients pursuing intentional, sustainable, and influential change across a range of sectors—science, technology, social, environmental, arts, and culture.
The root of the word technology—techne—originally meant “art.” For the ancient Greeks, art and manufacture were never separate pursuits*; creation and making were understood as one and the same.
This unified philosophy continues to shape our work. As the studio’s name suggests, Landscape maintains a voracious awareness of cultural, societal, and technological change—recognizing that these forces are deeply intertwined, and that design does not exist in isolation — but rather, in the world.
Our long-tenured, senior team brings extensive experience solving complex challenges for equally complex organizations and stakeholder groups developing novel offerings. As a global, boutique studio headquartered in San Francisco, Landscape is made up of diverse, optimistic, and deeply passionate individuals who work through an intimate, highly collaborative and optimized process.
Over the past 14 years, this structure has attracted entrepreneurs, organizations, and individuals exploring the edges of our collective future—from unlocking quantum computing and scaling responsible manufacturing, to pioneering space-based solar energy, advancing cognitive expansion, and shaping the future of food.
In a time of constant change, we draw inspiration from the ambition of our client partners and find lasting satisfaction in leveraging emergent technologies to support their success—creating work that is beloved, enduring, original, and effective.
*Abstracted from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
- Accelerate Early Traction
- Bridge to Mainstream
- Lead Emergent Categories
- Evolve & Extend Brand Equity
- Activate Brand-Led Innovation
Testimonials
Working with Landscape was a game-changer for us. As a machine-learning company, our biggest challenge was making our complex technology feel simple and relatable. Landscape nailed it. They created a brand that not only looks amazing but really connects with our audience. We’ve even had customers say we feel like the ‘Stripe of machine-learning,’ which is exactly the vibe we wanted. The new brand translates our work in a way that feels both trustworthy and cutting-edge. It’s made a huge difference to our growth trajectory.
The impact has been clear right away. We’re getting more qualified leads, our cold outreach is landing better, and deals are closing much faster. Engagement on our website is up triple digits as a percentage, and the brand refresh is helping us attract top talent.
In Landscape, we found a partner that understood our complex technology and our ambitions for Modal’s business, and was able to turn that into an ultra-contemporary experience and design system.
Landscape deeply internalized our distinct market position and helped us elevate and orient the brand in a way that appeals to both our core user base and enterprise customers.
Antora is a leader in decarbonizing industry in the United States and around the world. And we needed a brand commensurate with our role as a partner to global industry.
In Landscape, we found a strategic partner with the skills, creativity, and capabilities to help build this brand. From in-depth stakeholder interviews to an eye for the smallest details, Landscape’s team took the time to understand our company and market while maintaining a high bar for quality at every step of the process.
We are inspired to steward this next generation of probiotics and microbiome-based innovations that will forever change the global categories of health, hygiene, nutrition, and self-care.
Landscape really understood our point of view, what we stand for, and have the unique ability to bring that perspective to life through thoughtfully architected digital experiences.
- Science
- Technology
- Social
- Environmental
- Arts
- Culture
- Strategy
- Identity Systems
- Naming
- Digital Experience
- Campaign Production
- Content Strategy
- Digital Product
- Seed
- MIT’s The Engine
- Stripe
- Giro
- Checkr
- Claxton Projects
- Antora
- Mindbloom
- Atoms
- Gantri
- Beacon Capital
- Shaped
- Modal
- Peak Energy
- Oath
- Mercedes Benz
- Intel
- Snowflake
- Haiqu
- Variloom
- Good Bacteria
