T2ELVE is a one-person practice making identity, interface, and motion work for clients who count time slowly. Independent since 2019. Currently booking small, considered projects for late 2026.
I started T2ELVE in a Budapest courtyard in 2019. The studio has been a single chair ever since — by choice, not accident. The work is the reason; the rest is logistics. Before this, I trained in graphic design at MOME, did a year at a Berlin agency I won't name, and spent eighteen months as the in-house designer at a publishing house where I learned how to read a paragraph slowly. I make identity, interface, and motion work for clients who count their time the same way I count mine — twelve at a time.
One chair. Two clients. A courtyard above a Hungarian bar. The studio's first invoice was for a single business card, hand-set in metal.
Three commissions — a wine label, a coin, a watch face. We learn to say no. The studio's first manifesto is written on a napkin.
Égbolt Festival ships. The studio is invited to its first jury — declines politely. A poster wins an award we forget to collect.
We relocate to Október 6. utca — fourth floor, no lift, three windows. The new chair arrives by truck. Folyó Editorial publishes its first issue.
We commission our first custom face — a single weight of a single serif. Used on every project since. Üveg and Pára ship in the same week.
Tizenkettő solo show opens at Kiscelli. Twelve rooms, twelve projects, twelve people. A retrospective the studio almost refused to do.
Margó Reader v1.0 lands in the App Store after fourteen months. Köd's title sequence premieres at the Hungarian Film Week.
Paris, eighth arrondissement, one bottle. Halvány Atelier launches in March. We close the year with one project still on the drawing board.
Two projects at a time, never more. The work needs the time the work asks for.
We work with the founder, the editor, the artistic director. Not the committee.
Pick the typeface and the system, then the system writes most of the brand.
Clients get templates, type licenses, and one phone number to call.
A flat fee per project. No hourly. No surprise invoices. No add-ons.
If it isn't the right project for the studio, the studio will say so on day one.
Every project starts on a single A3 sheet, in pencil, by hand.
Twelve weeks minimum. If you need it faster, we're not the studio for it.
A studio that disappears behind the work, and is louder for it.