How we approach briefs, scope, ownership, and collaboration — written for people who already understand design.
Finn Kortenbrede · 24 August 2026
A Disclosure Worth Reading
Article 50 of the EU AI Act gave hvv mia an obligation. Design turned it into a claim the user can believe.
Under the EU AI Act, disclosing that users are talking to an AI is now mandatory — but a badge in the corner satisfies the law while missing the point. Here's how we turned a compliance requirement into the thing that makes a public-facing AI assistant trustworthy enough to use at all.
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Pietro Fantoni · 18 June 2026 · hybrid imagery, controlled generation
Controlled Ai Hybrid Imagery
The point isn't that we use AI. It's that we control it — and can prove the seam is invisible.
Two photographs that were never photographed — accurate to a regulated industry's safety standards, at a fraction of the cost and time of a shoot.
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Tobias Sievers · 2 April 2026 · METHOD, MIXED REALITY
What Mixed Reality Actually Does
Mixed reality's strongest effect is not immersion but the transition between real and virtual — and for studios working with physical objects whose value lies in the invisible, those seams are the thing worth designing.
Mixed reality's strongest effect isn't immersion — it's the transition between real and virtual, the seam where the two stitch together. When visitors stop separating the physical object from its digital layer, the medium disappears and only the experience remains.
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Tobias Sievers · 25 November 2025 · design criteria, mediatecture
Four Criteria We Judge Designs By
How a studio turns instinct into argument: a working framework of Relevance, Immediacy, Efficiency, and Elegance for judging why one design is stronger than another—and for making the next one better.
Every studio has taste, but few can explain it. These are the four criteria — Relevance, Immediacy, Efficiency, Elegance — we use to turn "we just feel this one works" into an argument that holds up under pressure.
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