Tea tins, paper pouches, and loose tea arranged on a sunlit counter.

Featured · Spring 2026

Hartwell Tea Co.

Identity, packaging, and a small online shop for a family-run tea brand. Six weeks, three blends, one new wordmark.

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Origin is a three-person studio. Brand identity and websites for small businesses.

One project at a time, since 2018.

01 / Cover

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02 / What we do

We work with founders who care how their work looks and reads. Roughly twelve projects a year, each one starts with a conversation.

Selected work

All projects

06

Hartwell Tea Co.

Identity, packaging, online shop

2026

Spring ’26 →

05

Westmount Property

Web, listings, search

2025

Autumn ’25 →

04

Linden & Lark Florist

Identity, single-page site

2025

Summer ’25 →

03

Bridge Coffee Roasters

Brand refresh, wholesale site

2024

Winter ’24 →

02

Marrow & Mast

Identity, menu system, web

2024

Spring ’24 →

01

Northbank Architects

Web, project archive

2023

Autumn ’23 →

04 / By the numbers

A small studio with a long memory. We answer our own emails, write our own contracts, and ship work we’re still proud of two years later.

12

Projects per year, on average

8

Years working together

94%

Repeat or referral clients

05 / How we work

A short process, on a single page.

Four weeks from kickoff to launch on most projects. We tell you what we’ll do, what we won’t, and what it’ll cost – in plain language.

01

Honest scope, week one

We tell you what we’ll do, what we won’t, and what it’ll cost – on a single page, before any work begins.

02

Type and tone, before pixels

Voice, type system, and palette get nailed down before we start drawing screens. The visuals follow the writing.

03

Built to hand over

Sites we ship are easy for you to update on a quiet Tuesday afternoon. No bespoke plugins, no consultancy retainer.

04

One project at a time

We take on roughly a project a month so the work in front of us always gets our full attention.

Tea tins, paper pouches, and loose tea arranged on a sunlit counter.

In their words

“They asked the questions our last designer didn’t.”

The site finally feels like ours, not a template we tried to make fit. Six weeks, three rounds, and a brand we can grow into.

Hands holding a cup of tea beside simple tea packaging and loose leaves.

“Origin was easy to brief and easier to live with. They sent invoices in plain English.”

— Sarah Jenkins, Hartwell Tea Co.

Have a project in mind?

Most projects start with a single email. If we’re a fit, we’ll tell you on the first call.

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