The latest creative experimentation, stories from the team and notes from the field.
Thank you to everyone who attended Clayton Welham and Kieran Gee-Finch’s talk at the new OPN Festival this year! Created by Weareseventeen and Ravensbourne University London, it is a true celebration of motion design. It was an honour to offer insight and discuss design amplification.
Senior Designer Hannah attended Central Saint Martins End-of-Year Portfolio Reviews, an opportunity for students to share their work with wider industries. Providing advice and insight into various career paths, giving feedback on how to showcase their work best, and learning more broadly about the industries relevant to their discipline.
We had an amazing time at OFFF Vienna 2024 – A big thank you to everyone who attended Clayton Welham and Kieran Gee-Finch’s talk about our thinking around the theme of design amplification.
Thank you to all who attended this year’s Future of Branding Week, which saw Laurence joined a line up of industry experts to share her insight into motion design and how we use our tools and techniques across branding, film and products.
Joining leading figures in the craft sector, Found will speak at the V&A South Kensington as part of London Craft Week’s craft symposium. Join us for a discussion on “Crafting the Digital Object” led by our Partner & Creative Director, Clayton Welham. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to explore the intersection of craft and digital innovation. Thursday, 16th May, 10:30am – 1pm. Tickets here.
We are excited to announce that Laurence Mencé, Creative Lead, will join a line-up of industry experts at this year’s Future of Branding Week, 14th – 17th May in London. Laurence will share her insights into motion design and how we use the latest innovative tools across branding, film and products. Secure your space here
We are excited to announce the promotion of Found’s Creative Director, Clayton Welham, to Partner. Since joining us over three years ago, Clayton has been instrumental in Found’s growth. He has overseen a fantastic body of boundary-pushing work while building and nurturing an incredible team in our London studio, which continues to grow and evolve. Here’s to the next chapter!
48 hours, 9 guest speakers and 1 robotic dog later we’re back from the world-class Mouvo Conference 2024. A big thank you to all the attendees who came as Clayton Welham and Andrea Marshall explored the intangible world of emotion using Maxon One tools and techniques.
We are excited to announce that Clayton Welham & Andrea Marshall will join a lineup of leading digital creators at the world-class Mouvo Conference in Prague. Our talk will focus on how we use Maxon tools to visualise the intangible. Join us on March 1st – 2nd, 2024, at UMPRUM Centre, Prague. Get your tickets here.
Our Senior Designer Hannah will be attending Creative Lives in Progress’ latest ‘Want to get into motion design’ portfolio review event. Joining a panel of designers on Thursday 25th January, offering expert feedback and help you in your journey into the world of motion design. Sign up here.
Kicking off INVISIBLE we invited friends and family of Found to join us for the opening night. It was great to get the whole team together and reflect on what was a first for us, an exhibition exploring how our research-based approach can amplify our perception of the world. Open until 22nd September at TJ Boulting Gallery.
Alongside the opening of INVISIBLE, on Wednesday 20th September we will be hosting an evening for the next generation of 3D designers, a chance to meet the team and learn about our studio processes. If you’re a UK-based 3D designer in the first year of your career and curious about how we make the invisible visible, sign up now.
We’re thrilled to announce that Corentin has joined the team as a Junior Designer. He has already made incredible steps at Found and played a key part in many of our recent projects. Keep your eyes peeled for more of his work!
Meet Esra Efe Laborde, our new Office Manager. She’ll be taking care of day-to-day life in the studio and is already getting stuck in with all sides of the business. An organisational and creative talent, we’re thrilled to have her on the team.
X marks the spot. The beginning of our ongoing collaboration with product designer Jon Marshall and Pentagram. Taking cues from every stage of the design process, we composed an intelligent surface system to showcase Jon’s products. Designed to be flexible, our 3D grid surface is the blank canvas that scales and shifts to reflect each individual product.
We’re delighted to welcome Laurence Mencé to the Found team. She joins us as our third Creative Lead. Prior to joining us, she worked most recently at Wolff Olins and Arrival and before that was freelance for 9 years with a little stint here at Found in 2018 where she worked alongside Dan, Felix and Ryan. To use Laurence’s own words she is ‘very chuffed to be part of the Found crew’ and we are excited to welcome her and her talent to the team.
Christmas came early for Found this year, with our studio Christmas party last week. Moving from a proper roast to Tekken 7 and karaoke classics (nu metal to ABBA!). It was great to get the whole team together in person to reflect on our work this year and get into the festive spirit. We even had our international cohort, Kiril and Coco, join us from across the channel.
Quantum development for our latest collaboration with VIZIO.
Clarity and haze, some recent macro R&D around organic forms for an exciting client project we’ve been working on.
Making metasystems tangible. An R&D set exploring the concept of hidden networks. Activated through proximity, mechanisms below the surface respond to external shape and colour, creating paired, interlocking forms.
Our Creative Lead, Ryan, has been testing the effects of magnetism on physical objects and tethered camera dynamics.
Last week, the team set off to Hertfordshire for our mid-year away day. Alongside a well-deserved celebration of the year so far, the activities involved pottery, pigs and pints, all in the idyllic setting of Birch in Cheshunt.
Our workshop at OFFF Sevilla last month honed in on how to use photographic exploration as part of the creative process. These stunning photos are some of the results from our participants – using macro lenses to explore the finer details of textures and light.
Two new members have recently joined the Found team. Meet Kieran Gee-Finch, our new Senior Designer, and Karolis Arbaciauskas, our latest Design Intern. Kieran joins us from INK, with a background in Houdini-led motion design. Karolis joins us with experience at both Blue-Zoo and Harvard University.
We couldn’t be happier to have them both on board for our next series of exciting projects – stay tuned!
Designed to evolve, our brand is open for the team to explore and develop. In this latest iteration, the Found logo sits in a world of translucent materials, shadows, and grounding stone surfaces.
Meet Rain and Drew!
Rain Osgood is the latest Producer to join the Found team, with a stellar background in immersive storytelling and experience with luxury brands. She’ll be leading the production process alongside Felix and Sophia. Drew Thompson is our new in-house Finance Manager, joining us from Nucco Brain, and taking over the reins from Emma, who is moving over to join our friends at Output. We’re excited to have both of them on board!
Our first intern has joined the team. Meet Kiril Trashliev, a recent graduate from Ravensbourne University with a killer background in CG animation and product design. Keep your eyes peeled for more of his work with Found in the future.
Last week, the team met up in sunny Brighton for our first full-staff social since 2020! A scenic walk across the South Downs made room for a delicious pub lunch, followed by a few celebratory drinks to watch the football with.
A pop of colour on a cloudy day. An experiment in layering materials and motion, by our Creative Lead, Ryan.
Floating away with this dreamy fabric exploration by our designer Jay.
Linear component and airflow product research. Air in zero gravity.
Exploring formations and natural refractions through layered ice structures.
Graphic engineered forms and precious material beauty set from Ryan.
Melting glass to investigate caustics, refraction and close-up material tests for Forward Festival.
Visualising the mix of our real and virtual experiences. Crossing the threshold.
Research into audio movement, frequency filtration, noise cancelling technology and creation of unique sound signatures.
Experimenting with in-camera optics and CG effect combinations.
A series of experiments fusing the translucency of glass with mineral forms.
Ongoing exercises in audio form, flow and surface relationships.
Visualising the relationship between musician and instrument. Inner mechanisms, response and energy conservation.
Colour, crystals, caustics – further play from Olly, following a R&D sprint for a recent beauty project.
Experimenting with luxurious flowing fabrics and resin optics – another beauty R&D set from Will.
Networking laboratory vessels, scientific flow systems and optical glass.