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Objects
Products and furniture from sketch to factory floor: form, mechanics, materials and the box it ships in.
- Industrial design
- Engineering for manufacture
- Prototypes in our workshop
- Packaging
Three projects we'd make again. Yours could be the fourth.
Oriel is a small studio for industrial, spatial and digital design. We take a lamp, a library or an app from first sketch to the thing in your hands, and we show our working.
- Objects · spaces · screens
- Est. 2014
- Nine people, one workshop
The studio
Three disciplines, one bench. Most projects need all three.
A lamp needs a launch site. A library needs chairs. An app needs signs on the wharf. We're designers, engineers and makers in one room, so the whole thing comes out as one piece of work.
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Spaces
Small buildings, interiors and the furniture in them, drawn and detailed in-house down to the door handles.
- Architecture to 1,500 m²
- Interiors and fit-out
- Joinery and furniture
- Wayfinding
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Screens
Apps, sites and signs for the products and places we design, and for good companies who bring us theirs.
- Product design
- Websites and launch pages
- Design systems
- Signage and print
How we work
Every project, four stages. You see the work at each one.
No black box and no big reveal. At the end of every stage you get the work itself on the table, and a plain note on what we'd do next and why.
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01 · Brief1–2 weeks
We listen, then write it down
We visit, measure and ask, then send the brief back to you on one page so we agree on what good looks like.
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02 · Sketch2–4 weeks
Many sketches, three directions
We draw widely, narrow to three directions and recommend one, with honest notes on what each would cost to make.
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03 · Prototype4–8 weeks
Hold it before it's real
Card, foam, timber or code. You hold it, sit in it or tap through it, and we change it until it's right.
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04 · MakeUntil it ships
We stay until it's made
Through tooling, site or launch. We sign off the first one off the line, the keys or the release, not just the drawings.
Clients
Good people to make things with. A few of them.
Lumen
Marram
Skiff
Fennel & Co
Northwind
Halcyon
Placeholder marks · replace with real clients
They brought a cardboard lamp to our first meeting. By the third, we were arguing about the colour of the cable, which is how we knew it would be good.
Founder, lighting brandPlaceholder · replace with a real client, with permission
The model on our council table did more than any render. People could see the evening light coming into the room.
Library manager, regional councilPlaceholder · replace with a real client, with permission
Ways to work
Three ways to start. All of them begin with a sketch.
Every project is quoted after a first conversation, as a fixed fee per stage. These are the usual starting points.
A
Sketch sprint from $12,000
Two weeks to turn an idea into three drawn directions and a recommendation you can take anywhere.
- 2 weeks
- 3 directions
- A one-page brief
B
Full project from $60,000
From the brief to the first one off the line, the keys handed over or the launch, with prototypes at every stage.
- 3–9 months
- Fixed fee per stage
- Prototypes included
C
Studio on call from $8,000 / month
A few days a month from the same small team, for companies with a range that keeps growing.
- Rolling monthly
- Priority bench time
- Stop any month
Placeholder prices in AUD, excluding GST. Replace with the studio's own.
Questions
Asked over the first coffee. Ask us anything else.
Do you take on small projects?
Yes. A sketch sprint is a good way to start, and plenty of our longest relationships began with one object.
Who owns the designs?
You do, once the stage is paid. We keep the right to show the work in our portfolio after launch, and we'll always ask first.
Can you work with our engineers or architect?
Often. We can lead, or join your team for one discipline: the object, the interior or the app.
Do you work outside the city?
Most of our clients aren't nearby. We visit at the start and at each prototype, and share everything else as we go.
Can we see more work?
Of course. We keep a fuller set of case studies, drawings and prototypes to walk through on a call or in the studio.
Start a project
Have something to make? Let's draw it together.
Send a few lines about what you're making and when you need it. We reply within two working days, with questions rather than a sales deck.