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A sunlit meeting room with a colour swatch board, flip charts and a wooden table seen through ribbed glass

We are an independent studio built around a single open room, where identity, film and editorial are made at the same table. We work with founders and teams who want their brand to feel considered from every angle. Few projects. Full attention.

Atrium started in 2019, when a designer, a film producer and an editor rented a sunlit loft in Cannes and took down the walls between their disciplines. They had spent years in agencies where ideas were passed from department to department and lost a little at every handover. So they built the opposite: one room, one team, one conversation. Today the studio is nine people. We shape identities for young companies, films for brands with a story to tell, and the books and magazines that give both a place to live.

Two members of the team reviewing black and white prints around a long wooden table
A long studio table covered in prints, books and a laptop in front of a wall of pinned photographs

Every project passes through the same four rooms. How long we spend in each one changes. The order does not.

  1. 01.

    Gather

    Weeks 1 to 2

    We spend time with the people behind the company, not just the brief: their history, their customers, and the things they would never compromise on.

  2. 02.

    Frame

    Weeks 3 to 4

    We choose the one idea worth building on and write it down in a single page, so every decision after it has something clear to answer to.

  3. 03.

    Build

    Weeks 5 to 10

    Identity, film and editorial take shape together at the same table, reviewed in the room, printed on real paper and screened before anything is final.

  4. 04.

    Open

    Week 11 onwards

    We launch alongside you, hand over every file and guide, and stay close through the first season while the work finds its feet in the world.

The Atrium office in warm afternoon light

  • Creative Director, Founder

    Portrait of Clémence Arnaud

    Clémence

    Arnaud

  • Executive Producer, Co-founder

    Portrait of Laurent Vidal

    Laurent

    Vidal

  • Editorial Director, Co-founder

    Portrait of Amara Diallo

    Amara

    Diallo

  • Design Director

    Portrait of Kwame Asante

    Kwame

    Asante

  • Film Director

    Portrait of Kenji Morita

    Kenji

    Morita

  • Director of Photography

    Portrait of Henrik Dahl

    Henrik

    Dahl

What we hold to

Four quiet rules that shape every project we take on, however large the brief and however tight the calendar.

  • i.

    Clarity

    One idea, stated simply, is stronger than five ideas explained well. We keep cutting until the work says one thing clearly.

  • iii.

    Honesty

    We say what we think, early and kindly, including when the answer is not the one anyone hoped to hear in the room.

  • ii.

    Openness

    No closed doors between disciplines and no surprises for clients. You see the work while it is still rough, and so do we.

  • iv.

    Care

    Every edit watched twice, every page proofed on paper, every file named properly. Care is not a finishing step. It is the method.

AwardsandRecognitions

  • 2020

    Visual identity

    Type Directors Club Certificate of Excellence

  • 2021

    Brand film

    Ciclope Festival Shortlist

  • 2022

    Editorial

    European Design Awards Silver

  • 2023

    Campaign

    D&AD Wood Pencil

  • 2024

    Visual identity

    Brand New Best of the Year

  • 2026

    Documentary

    Cannes Lions Shortlist

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