Working Proofs
Overprint is a design studio working in identity, print, objects and interfaces. This is the open file — eight projects, the reasoning underneath them, and the writing that came out of making them.
Selected Work
From the Journal
All writing- 2026.07.22PracticeNell Braithwaite
The Brief Is Never the Brief
Every project we have ever taken on arrived described as one problem and turned out to be a different one. Here is how we now go looking for the second problem on purpose.
- 2026.06.04PracticeWes Okonkwo
Estimating in the Dark
How a four-person studio prices work it does not yet understand, and what happened when we stopped pretending the first number was a real number.
- 2026.04.17CraftTomás Reguera
The Grid You Inherited
Most grids in circulation are twelve columns because a CSS framework in 2011 said so. Here is a case for deriving the grid from the content instead, and what it costs to do that.
Four people, one room above a bindery in Providence. We take on three or four projects a year and write about most of them. If something here rhymes with what you are carrying around, tell us about it.