Lena Marquez
Trained as an architect, Lena leads brand and editorial. Believes typography is the voice of a brand and that less is almost always more.
Our practice
We design and build in the same room. The person who sketches the logo is the person who ships the code. That gap — between craft and execution — is where most projects die.
MERIDIAN was founded in 2014 by a small group of designers and engineers who had watched too many good ideas die in the handoff between disciplines. We wanted to build a studio where the gap did not exist — where the people who imagined the work were the people who built it, and where every decision, from the typeface to the deploy, was made with care.
Eleven years later, that principle still holds. We are still small — deliberately so. We take on a handful of engagements each year, staff each one with a partner, and ship work we are willing to put our name on. We do not sub-contract. We do not offshore. We do not ship work we are not proud of.
The result is a body of work that spans brand identity, web and product design, motion, and editorial — for clients who think in decades, not quarters. We are based in Berlin and Lisbon, but we work with teams everywhere.
