We are a design studio in Bar, Montenegro.

[fya-ka] · noun, Dalmatian

Rough translation: doing nothing.

Better translation: knowing what not to add.

It's what settles over the Adriatic at two in the afternoon, when the noise drops and only what matters is left standing. We named the studio after it because it's the hardest part of design to teach, and the first thing clients feel.

Where we learned it

Architecture taught us structure.

We trained as architects. We still think in plans and load-bearing ideas, and we still won't decorate a wall that's doing its job.

House rules.

Pinned above the desk. Mostly obeyed.

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Postcard: the old olive tree of Mirovica.
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Notice first.

Nobody draws anything until we can say what's wrong in one sentence.

Not everything makes the cut.

Flick them away. There's more underneath.

Flick →
Unseen.

Older projects, unused routes and proposals that never went live.

Open Unseen ↗
La Botillería poster, unused concept
Afterglow Y2K logo
La Botillería box, unused concept
QUBO, NFT marketplace
Afterglow t-shirt
La Botillería shop window, unused concept
La Botillería poster, unused concept
Afterglow Japan logo over a black car
La Botillería shopping bag, unused concept

Bring us the long version.

The 40-page deck. The brief that keeps growing. The logo with four ideas in it. We'll bring it back shorter, sharper and unmistakably yours.

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