Marlow Vance
Founder · ECD
Twenty years turning quiet companies into loud ones. Believes the brief is always wrong the first time.
(Studio) Est. 2017 · Surrey / Worldwide
We are a small room that makes loud brands. Nine people, one obsession: attention.
(01) How we work
The method
We don't do rounds of revisions. We do one uncompromising direction, argued for and shipped.
01
Interrogate
Two weeks of asking rude questions until the real problem confesses. Strategy before a single pixel.
02
Provoke
One direction, taken further than is comfortable. We'd rather be wrong loudly than right quietly.
03
Build
Designers who ship code and directors who cut film. The craft never leaves the building.
04
Launch
We stay past the reveal. A brand is a system, and systems need someone to keep them dangerous.
(02) Manifesto
Beige is a choice. We refuse it.
Most brands die of caution, not competition. They test the boldness out of every idea until nothing is left to remember. We work the other way, start at the edge and defend it.
AFTERGLOW was founded on the belief that taste is a strategy and restraint is a superpower. Ninety percent near-black, ten percent neon. The discipline is what makes the glow hit.
(03) The people
Behind the glow
Isadora Kline
Head of Art Direction
Builds image worlds you can smell. Casts, styles and lights every frame like it's a magazine cover.
Theo Amari
Design Engineering Lead
Makes the motion actually run. If it can't hold sixty frames on a mid-tier phone, it doesn't ship.
(04) Recognition
On the record
2025Rebrand of the Year, NocturneTransform Awards
2025Best Launch Campaign, VertexThe Drum Awards
2024Site of the Day, HalcyonAwwwards
2024Identity Design, Gold, AureliaD&AD Pencils
2023Music & Art Direction, ParallaxType Directors Club
2023Design Studio to WatchCreative Review
(05) Come in
Work with the room.