a micro brand design studio
for early stage startups
Trusted by teams big and small
Span
Establishing a new leader in the engineering intelligence space. Span is the AI-native developer intelligence platform that provides comprehensive visibility into productivity, AI adoption, and workflow bottlenecks. We worked with span over multiple engagements to relaunch their marketing site presence and visual design system.
Avec
Avec an AI-powered email app that helps you triage your inbox in seconds. We worked with the founding team directly to build a brand for Avec that welcomed in the masses who hate to use email but must anyways.
Collaborators include Carly Wright, Studio Mast, Ben Byrum, Claire Whitman, Jake Dugard, Tino Zhabinsky. Special thanks to Jonathan Unikowski, Omar Abdul-Rahim, and the whole Avec team.
Figma
We partnered with our friends at figma to help launch their ChatGPT integration, building out over 400 of slides and buzz templates to their Figma Community library — this was a large scale, 6 month partnership, bringing in dozens of designers to collaboare with Studio Jud and the Figma team to bring a best in class library of templates to life for Figma users to jump into.
Too many friends to count here, but massive thanks to Ksenia Agres, Laura Winn, Eric Hurtgen, Fred and Co Studio, Jake Dugard, Thiago Loducca and Odds Studio to their incredible contributions.
Modal
Modal is the changing the compute industry with a fully serverless cloud infrastructure for AI and ML. We worked with modal across a number of initiaitves from OOH campaigns to design system expansions to help them make the jump to their $355 Series C raise this year.
Special thanks to Sona Dolasia and Joshua Goldenberg.
Our Services
Studio Jud is small but mighty, providing brand strategy, visual identity, web and campaign production to early to series C startups in consumer and enterprise categories.
Typical brand and web projects run 6–12 weeks, ranging from $50k–$150k, though we're open to options or contingent structures for the right seed and pre-seed founders. As a micro studio, we typically book new clients 1–2 months in advance.
Brand Sprint
6-week sprints designed to bring a brand together from the ground up quickly, with a small list of outputs.
Brand Identity
8-12 week brand engagements designed to bring a brand together from the ground up, with a small list of outputs.
Web + Build
8+ week engagements — we launch everything from campaign landing pages to full scale marketing sites.
Studio Jud is a micro studio run by Judson Collier, helping design brands of all shapes and some sizes.
Before the studio, I spent years in-house at early-stage companies like Loom, Intercom and Figma, building brands from the inside.
We are small by design. We're able to take on very little work in a year — usually 1-2 projects at a time. No account layers, no handoffs to a team you've never met. When you hire Studio Jud, you get me, and the collaborators I trust, working the problem directly.
Recent and ongoing work includes Span, OpenAI, Figma, and Avec. The studio's best fits are early-stage founders, small consumer brands, and cultural organizations — people with a clear point of view who want a peer in the room instead of a vendor.
