Six people, three columns.

We are a studio of six in a former harbour office on the Maashaven. We take on about eight identities a year, almost all of them for businesses you can walk into.

The Ninefold studio before anyone arrives: a long oak table under the skylight with three proofs laid out in a row, oysters, a yellow jersey, oysters

Most of our clients will never run an ad. People meet them on a profile grid before they meet them at the door, so we give the grid the same care as the shopfront. We art direct the photography ourselves and leave behind templates simple enough for whoever opens up to post before the first customer arrives.

What we make

Five things, laid out the way they will be used: one cell each.

How a project runs

  1. The room

    Two weeks in your shop, kitchen or workshop before we open a laptop. The identity comes from what is already there.

  2. The rule

    We decide what repeats. Every feed we design runs on one rule a stranger could spot from the grid.

  3. The identity

    Mark, type and colour, tested at 120 pixels wide, which is how big a tile is on most phones.

  4. The shoot

    One or two days of photography, shot in the order the posts will go up.

  5. The handover

    Templates, a posting calendar and a printed one-page guide that lives behind the counter.

A pencil grid on tracing paper with squares of green and shell paper laid out as a checkerboard, the last square being placed

What we won’t do

  • Puzzle grids that tear after one post.
  • Paid social, influencer campaigns or follower targets.
  • More than two projects at the same time.