Most object designers design for well-lit rooms and treat darkness as an edge case. This studio treats darkness as the entire brief: everything they build is meant to be used, read, or operated with little to no light at all.
Clients include submarine crews, night-shift factory operators, and, once, an astronomical observatory that needed instrument panels legible without disturbing a telescope's light-sensitive equipment nearby.
Designing for a sense other than sight
Much of the studio's work leans on touch instead of vision — raised textures instead of printed labels, distinct physical shapes for controls that would otherwise look identical by feel alone.
The designers describe the constraint as clarifying rather than limiting: without color or fine print available as a crutch, every design decision has to work through shape, texture, and position alone.