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A four-person studio in Austin, shipping since 2014.

MSN Creative is a senior brand and motion studio founded by Markos N. and Sofia P. in a third-floor walk-up on East 6th Street. Ten years, 312 brands, and one stubborn belief later, we still hand-deliver every file ourselves.

Founded 2014, Austin TX
Founders Markos N. & Sofia P.
Headcount 9 specialists
Operating model Remote · ATX · NYC
Markos and Sofia reviewing printed brand sheets in the East 6th Street studio.
The original ATX studio, photographed during a Friday review, 2017.
Why we stay small.

A small, senior team on purpose.

We started MSN Creative in 2014 with two designers, one kitchen table, and a simple rule: every file that leaves the studio gets touched by a person whose name is on the project. A decade later the rule is the same. We are deliberately four-to-nine people. We do not subcontract. We do not run a bench. The designer you meet on the discovery call is the designer who opens your Figma file on Monday morning.

Pair that with tight async sprints — written briefs, Loom walkthroughs, one Slack thread per engagement — and you get agency-grade craft at studio speed. The shape of the team is the deliverable. It is also the only reason we can promise a 14-business-day average identity without burning anyone out.

— Markos & Sofia, founders

The roster

The nine people building your brand.

Brand designers, motion artists, Webflow developers, and one creative director. Every name below is a real human who will appear in your Figma file, your Slack channel, and your invoice — not an agency alias.

Brand design

  • 01

    Markos Nakos

    Co-founder · Brand lead

    Started MSN Creative in 2014 after a stint at Pentagram Austin. Owns type systems, naming, and the studio's editorial sensibility. Speaks passable Greek, designs in passable Spanish.

  • 02

    Sofia Pereira

    Co-founder · Identity lead

    Co-founder and the eye behind every wordmark we ship. Previously at Manual SF. Leads naming, voice, and the structural system that sits underneath every visual identity.

  • 03

    Jules Hartman

    Senior brand designer

    Joined from a New York type foundry in 2018. Owns typography pairing, color systems, and the long, careful conversations about whether your logo should have a ligature.

  • 04

    Anaïs Roy

    Brand designer

    Editorial sensibility, packaging background. Came to us after four years at a Brooklyn food-and-beverage studio. Runs most of our consumer-goods programs end-to-end.

Motion & 3D

  • 05

    Devon Vega

    Lead motion artist

    Runs the motion desk. Eight years at Buck and Block & Tackle before joining MSN in 2020. Owns the studio's signature grain-and-curve style.

  • 06

    Priya Anand

    Motion & 3D artist

    Houdini and Cinema 4D, plus the person who keeps our render farm alive at 2 a.m. Builds the loopable hero loops and product macros that ship with most identities.

Webflow & build

  • 07

    Henrik Lindqvist

    Lead Webflow developer

    Has shipped more client-of-the-day Webflow sites than anyone on the team. Quietly carries half the studio's CMS implementations.

  • 08

    Camille Brooks

    Webflow developer

    Joined from a London product studio in 2022. Owns interactions, page-speed budgets, and the kind of QA that catches the missing alt text.

Direction

  • 09

    Yuki Tanaka

    Creative director

    Joined MSN in 2021 from a Tokyo branding studio. Reviews every program before it ships, runs the in-person strategy sessions, and is the reason the deck always lands.

By the numbers

Ten years, in numbers.

  • 312 Brand systems shipped since 2014, across SaaS, fintech, crypto, healthtech and consumer goods.
  • 97% On-time delivery across 1,180+ tracked Figma, Webflow and motion projects.
  • 78 Net Promoter Score from 2023–2025 client surveys — versus an agency industry average of 32.
  • 11 Awwwards Site of the Day honors and 4 FWA wins between 2019 and 2025, plus a Brand New 2023 Notable listing.

Averages: identity package delivered in 14 business days (2.6× faster than the agency median). Average engagement value $11,400, with 41% of clients returning for a second project.

How we work

Remote by default. In-person when it matters.

MSN has been fully distributed since 2020. Day-to-day, the studio runs on tight async sprints: written briefs, recorded walkthroughs, a single Slack thread per engagement, and a Figma file you can watch us work in. No status meetings, no time-zone acrobatics.

Twice a year we open the studio in Austin and a borrowed conference room in Manhattan for in-person strategy sessions — kickoffs, mid-program reviews, and the final sign-off. Founders who want a whiteboard and a coffee can have one. Founders who want a Loom at 11 p.m. can have that too.

  • ·Async sprints, written-first communication, shared Figma libraries.
  • ·In-person strategy sessions in Austin, TX and New York, NY.
  • ·One Slack thread per project, one creative director per program.
  • ·Optional working weeks at the ATX studio for teams who want to ship a deck together.
The MSN Creative team running a mid-program review at the Austin studio.
Mid-program review, ATX studio. Most weeks look like this — just on different laptops in different time zones.
Booking

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Thirty minutes, founder-to-founder. We will look at where you are, sketch where you want to be, and tell you honestly whether we are the right studio for the work. No deck, no pitch, no follow-up sequence.

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