We’re Espen, Lulu & Sophia + friends

Espen is a strategic designer, consultant and speaker with a knack for effective communication. He helps with strategy, front-end design and user experience.

Before this, he managed the design team at Redink (now Hyper), where he worked with clients like Santander, DNB, Oslo Municipality, and Elkjøp.

Before that, he co-founded and worked as creative director at Primate, where he worked on projects for clients like Airbnb, Waterstons, Scottish Book Trust, and Bulbapedia.

Before that, he designed websites for Heehaw Digital, where he first started working with pixels and at some point made a photoshop action to create 1px rounded corners on his bitmap shapes. What a timesaver!

Before that, he had a brief stint at Taste Design, where he forgot what he learned at his preceding job and subsequently got fired. Ouch.

Before that, he designed magazines for White Light Media, where he learned that caring about what you do and putting in the hours is the only way to do decent work.

Before that, he studied graphic design at Falmouth University, where he was told that ideas and concepts are more important to learn than implementation. He didn't fully get it then, but he does now.

Before that, he studied graphic design in Oslo. Computers weren't allowed in class, so he learned how to sketch with pencils and marker pens. He once drew the cover for an imaginary book called "Plastic Fantastic", because dildos were easy to draw realistically.

Before that, he served 11 months national service in the north of Norway. He hated every minute of it, but he learned to cope with weather and boredom and he's glad he had the experience.

Before that, he did arts and crafts at the local high school. For his final exam he spent five days painting a mural for a train station. (On paper, not actually in a train station.)

Before that, he went to secondary school. One day he had a guest lecturer from the advertising industry, who sold him on a career in the creative industry.

Before that, primary school. He drew fake tattoos of guns and roses on his friends' arms because, well, Guns N' Roses.

Before that, he was born in Drammen, Norway.

Before that, his parents met at Club 7, Oslo.

Before that, in 1905, Norway voted to dissolve its union with Sweden, by 368208 votes to 184.

Before that, more than half of Norway's population was wiped out by the Black Death between the years 1348 and 1350.

Before that, you know, dinosaurs and stuff.

Before that? Darkness, perhaps.

And before that? Who knows

Before this...

Lulu is a meticulous researcher with a background in bioinformatics and penchant for regular expressions. She helps with auditing, SEO and analysis.

Before this, she worked in medical research at both the University of Dundee and Oslo University, honing her data analysis and programming skills.

Before that, she completed her Master's degree in Biosciences at the University of Bath. In one of her in silico projects she built a super tree of Malacostraca — the largest of the six classes of Crustacea. (Crabs are obviously way better than people.)

Before that, she finished top of her class in Medical School in Mexico, a feat rendered completely pointless in her final year by the realisation that she was a germophobic introvert who didn't really enjoy getting up close and personal with sick people in a crowded hospital.

Before that, she learned the virtue of privacy, vowing not to divulge more than necessary to the uninitiated.

Before that, she was born.

Before that, she didn't exist.

Before this...

Sophia is our newest member of staff (and the oldest of our three children <3). After a very fruitful and successful work placement, Sophia is now our part time junior designer and social media afficionado.

Before this, she was (and still is) a high school student in Dundee, taking no less than four STEM subjects and excelling at all of them. To make room for STEM, she dropped art, because — despite working in a design studio — it's not an "important" subject.

Before that, she lived in Norway for two years, learning Norwegian within her first six months and acing P6 and P7 despite the language barrier. She started drawing less.

Before that (and during), she came along to multiple design conferences and at some point threw a plushie poop emoji at an audience of several hundred. She befriended Yuko Shimizu and other great artists, and we thought she might end up working in the creative industry.

Before that, she excelled academically throughout P1-P5 at Blackness Primary in Dundee. At this point she loved drawing, a love that would later be replaced by studying hard for maths and other "more important" things.

Before that, she travelled the world and lived in both Japan and Mexico.

Before that, she was born.

Before this...