Jointhe slipstream

Jointhe slipstream

Jointhe slipstream

Twelve people, one studio, three projects at a time. We hire slowly and keep people, so when a seat opens it matters.

  • Inés Valcárcel, Founder and creative director
  • Joaquín Ferrer, Design director
  • Anoushka Deshpande, Technical director
  • Carlota Brandão, Strategy lead
  • Kwabena Owusu, Motion lead
  • Saoirse Kinsella, Senior designer, identity
  • Romilly Hart, Producer
  • Tomasz Wierzbicki, Designer, websites
  • Liv Haugland, Designer, packaging
  • Fergus Penhaligon, Writer
  • Elio Marchetti, Developer
  • Zuri Abara, Animator

Three seats open: Senior Brand Designer, Motion Designer and Front-end Developer.

Why people stay

Our longest-serving designer joined in 2015. These are the reasons they give.

A quiet studio desk by tall windows on a sunny afternoon

Home by six

We plan to the hour, so late nights stay rare. When one happens, the next morning is yours.

Lights off at six, most days.

People swimming in a seaside lido on a summer day

Four-day weeks in August

The studio slows down for a month every summer, on the same pay.

A print workshop with presses, shelves of paper and type cases

A learning budget you’ll spend

Money every year for courses, books and talks, and a day a month to use it.

Two people laying out photographic prints on a studio table

Your own work on Fridays

From three on Fridays the studio is yours for side projects. Some become client work.

Cyclists on a park road on a bright weekend morning

No free pitches

We don’t do unpaid pitch work, so nobody gives up a weekend for a project that may never happen.

How we hire

  1. A hand writing a short note on a padTodayYou write to us.
  2. Joaquín Ferrer, design director, who takes most first callsWithin three daysHalf an hour with us.
  3. Two designers going through cards together at a studio tableThe week afterA paid day in the studio.
  4. Within a week of thatAn answer, with reasons.

Four steps, about two weeks. If you wrote today, these are your dates, in studio time.

Write to us anyway.

Don’t see your role? Tell us what you’d bring. We read every note and reply to all of them.

We reply within one working day.

Write to us anyway.

Don’t see your role? Tell us what you’d bring. We read every note and reply to all of them.

We reply within one working day.

Write to us anyway.

Don’t see your role? Tell us what you’d bring. We read every note and reply to all of them.

We reply within one working day.

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