About
Studio Standard is a curated platform for design tools created by some of the world’s leading creatives—designers, art directors, and visual makers working at the edge of contemporary culture. Each product is built with purpose, authored by the person who made it, and designed to support thoughtful, intentional work.
Solutions
The Creative Director's Collection
The Creative Director Suite is a growing collection of premium templates built for senior creatives running an independent practice, covering the documents a director produces from the first pitch through to the final case study. Suited to creative directors, design leads, studio principals, and senior practitioners across fashion, luxury, cultural institutions, and editorial work.
The Rue Collection
Introducing the Rue Collection, a set of customizable design products tailored for creatives. This collection combines a high-fashion aesthetic with editorial-style typography, targeting creative directors, designers, studios, and agencies looking to elevate their brand's presence. The RUE collection includes:
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How it works
Studio Standard commissions its tools directly from leading designers, art directors, and studios. We invite each one to make the things they would reach for in their own practice, and the things they believe others could use to run and grow theirs. Every product is built exclusively for the platform, for customers from independent creatives finding their footing to large agencies and international brands.
Creators
About Claire Huss
Claire Huss is a Paris-based art director and graphic designer. From 2008 to 2017, she lived in London, working with several design studios before joining COS as Lead Graphic Designer. Since 2018, she’s run her own studio in Paris, collaborating with clients including Erborian, Google Fonts, Humboldt Books, Luma Westbau, Mansur Gavriel, Martin Parr Foundation and Royère.
About Michael Mason
Michael Mason is a Canadian-born, interdisciplinary Designer and Creative Director based in London.In the past, he has held roles within Pentagram, Mother, Winkreative, Apple, Google Creative Lab, Man vs Machine, KOTO, and Character SF, with clients including Nike, Aesop, AIGA, Apple, BBC and Squarespace. He is currently Creative Director at Bold Scandinavia.
About Kory Jordan
Kory Jordan is a San Francisco–based Art Director and designer focused on culturally rooted brand storytelling. His work blends typographic restraint with expressive systems that translate strategy into bold, human visuals across campaigns and identities. He is currently a Senior Graphic Designer at Apple.
About October November
October November is an independent design studio known for photorealistic mockups that combine atmospheric visuals with technical precision. Their kits—used in work across the industry—balance storytelling and usability, built for designers working at a professional level. The studio’s catalog spans stationery, packaging, devices, and artwork frames—each file meticulously constructed for flexibility, speed, and control. We invited them to create exclusive kits for Studio Standard. This interview documents the process behind that work.
About Marina Herp
Marina Herp is a Graphic Designer and Creative Director based in Barcelona whose work spans both client projects and independent artistic practice. Alongside her own practice, she works with design agency Querida and is also the co-founder of Hair Archive magazine. Her approach brings together editorial sensibility and visual experimentation, creating work that moves fluidly between art and design.
About Simon Abranowicz
Simon Abranowicz is an art director and type designer from New York, currently based in Los Angeles. He leads Abbreviated Projects, a strategic design studio that has collaborated with clients including The New York Times, Nike, Apple, and Formula 1. Through his typographic practice, Abbreviated Foundry, he develops both retail and custom typefaces for clients such as Shawn Mendes, WIRED and The Graduate Hotels. Before founding his studio, he was an Art Director at GQ, where he helped lead a complete redesign of GQ and GQ Style. His bold, typographically driven approach earned multiple SPD and ASME design awards and helped define a new era for the magazines.
About Andrea Jelić
Andrea Jelić is an independent web designer and art director from Croatia. After serving as a design director, she returned to independent practice with a focus on web projects. Over the past seven years, she has worked with clients across industries, building an internationally recognized portfolio that includes awards and her role as an Awwwards judge
About Inès Kerma
Inès Kerma is an art director and graphic designer based in Paris, and the founder of Studio Kerma, a creative studio dedicated to branding and art direction. Its work spans layout, packaging, print, digital interfaces, motion design, and photography, with clients including Louis Vuitton, Renault, Rabanne, and Lancôme. Before founding her studio, Inès worked as a freelance designer with Leslie David Studio.
About Corentin Billot
Corentin Billot is a Paris-based art director and graphic designer working across fashion, music, and contemporary culture. His clients include Trax Magazine, Krug Champagne, Saint Laurent, Adidas, and Arc’teryx. His practice merges refined minimalism with cultural energy, creating imagery defined by rhythm, contrast, and attitude.
About Natalia Karczewska
Before establishing Kaer Studio, Natalia worked as Art Director at Vanessa Bruno; previous clients include Clarins, ba&sh, and Longchamp. Her background spans both design and photography, shaped by a strong foundation in the fashion industry. This dual perspective informs her work today, where the studio focuses on branding, visual identity, and creative direction for lifestyle, fashion, and beauty brands.
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Trusted by
Global Brands
Experience across global houses and creative studios. This collective pedigree defines the Studio Standard ethos: precision, authorship, and professional design systems.
Publishing Model
Authored design
Studio Standard releases original design work commissioned from senior designers and art directors. These are templates and tools, but authored ones, shaped by experience, taste, and repetition, and created specifically for professional use.
Published, not uploaded
Studio Standard operates as a publisher, not a marketplace. Contributors are invited. Work is reviewed and released under exclusive license, with authorship intact. Nothing is anonymous, and nothing exists to fill a slot.
Made for real work
These tools are made for designers working inside studios, agencies, and in-house teams. They are opened often and used over time, designed to hold together under daily pressure, not occasional inspiration.
FAQ's
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Studio Standard is a curated publishing platform for professional design tools. We release systems created by experienced designers and shaped by real practice.
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Products are not uploaded or sold independently. Every release is commissioned, reviewed, and published under a single editorial and quality standard.
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Designers, studios, and creative teams who need tools that hold up in professional environments, not quick fixes or disposable assets.
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Yes. Every product is built from workflows used in active practice and refined for repeatable, professional use.
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You receive a complete, production-ready system including files, structure, and guidance. Each product is designed to be used, adapted, and extended within professional workflows.
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Yes, depending on the license selected. Studio Standard offers Portfolio, Commercial, and Enterprise licenses that define how tools may be used, including documentation, client presentation, or external promotional work.
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If a product is updated for compatibility or refinement, existing customers receive access. Major new editions are released separately.
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The Portfolio License allows tools to be used to document and present design work, including case studies, internal presentations, and non-promotional sharing.
Commercial and Enterprise licenses cover advertising or promotional use and are scoped by company size and the specific product or service being promoted.Full license details are available on each product page.
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Working designers and creative directors selected for the quality and consistency of their practice, not audience size or social reach.
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We commission products that solve repeatable, professional problems and meet our editorial, visual, and structural standards. Not every idea qualifies.
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We don’t run open submissions. We usually reach out to designers and creatives whose work we admire. If you think your work is a good fit, you can reach out through our submission form
We’re primarily looking for senior designers with experience on recognizable projects, or creators who have successfully built and shipped their own tools or products.
[Click here for Submission form]
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Downloads are delivered immediately after purchase via email and your order confirmation page.
If you don’t see it, check spam or promotions folders first.
If the issue persists, contact support with your order number and we’ll resolve it quickly.
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Yes.
You can re–download your purchase at any time using the original download link provided at checkout.If you no longer have access to that link, contact support and we’ll reissue it.
To protect our creators and prevent misuse, each purchase includes a five-download limit.
If you reach the limit and need access again, contact support with your order number and we’ll reset it for you.
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Because Studio Standard products are digital, refunds are reviewed on a case-by-case basis.
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Licenses are granted to the original purchaser and may not be shared, transferred, or redistributed.
Studio Standard offers three license types, each designed for a specific use case:
Portfolio License
Use Studio Standard tools to document and present your work—such as case studies, social posts, pitches, or internal presentations. This license is for demonstrating practice, not for marketing products or services, and may be used by individuals or companies of any size.
Commercial License
For companies with 1–20 employees using a tool to advertise or promote one product or service. If the same tool is used for a different product or service, an additional license is required.
Commercial Plus License
For companies with 21+ employees using a tool to promote one product or service across campaigns, channels, and materials. Use for additional products or services requires a separate license.
If you’re unsure which license applies to your use case, contact support before purchasing and we’ll help clarify.
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Email support@studiostandard.com with your order number and a brief description of the issue.
We typically respond within one business day.
