Brand identity concept for a small-batch ceramics maker — mark, packaging system and a simple ordering site.
Creative & Digital Design Studio
We design brands and websites that read like a final draft, not a first guess.
Ninth Draft is a small studio working across brand identity, art direction and digital design — built around the idea that good work is rarely the first idea in the room.
Studio Statement
Every project starts as a rough version of itself. Our job is the eight drafts nobody sees — narrowing a business down to the one idea that's actually worth building a brand or a website around.
Selected Work
A few directions we've explored
Concept work developed to demonstrate the studio's range — not commissioned client projects.
Editorial website concept for an independent travel journal, built around a long-form reading layout.
Visual identity and membership site concept for a members' photography collective.
Packaging and digital concept for a specialty tea brand, spanning label system and product site.
Approach
A short, deliberate process rather than a long one
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Discover
Understand the business, the audience and the one thing the site actually needs to do.
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Direction
A small number of strong directions, not a long list of options to choose between.
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Design
One direction developed properly — typography, colour, layout and imagery as one system.
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Deliver
A finished site, built to be easy to keep updated after we hand it over.
Services
Where we can help
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Brand Identity
Name, mark, colour and type systems built to hold up across a website, packaging and print.
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Web Design & Build
Considered, responsive websites — designed and built together rather than handed off between teams.
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Art Direction
Photography, illustration and imagery direction that keeps a brand consistent across every touchpoint.
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Digital Product Design
Interface design for products and tools, from early concept through to a build-ready system.
Studio
Small on purpose
Ninth Draft stays small by design, so every project gets the same level of attention — one point of contact, one considered direction, and a site that's genuinely easy to keep updated once it's live. This page is a concept build, created to demonstrate the studio's visual language rather than a live client roster.
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Tell us what you're building.
A short note on the business and what the site needs to do is enough to start — no brief template required.
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