[KS® — 02] · Design

The drawing
comes first*

Krug Studio started as a design studio and never stopped being one. The AI work is newer and louder — but it is only credible because the same hands still draw the circle by hand first.

Construction Geometry before gloss

A mark you can
rebuild from memory

Every identity we make starts on a grid of circles and construction lines. It is slower than tracing a trend, and it is the reason the mark still works when it is embroidered on a shirt, stamped on a cup, or rendered two pixels tall in a browser tab.

Krug means krug. The studio is named after the first shape you learn to draw and the hardest one to draw well.

Logo construction grid of three overlapping circles Logo construction sketch on warm paper
Disciplines Four, done properly

01

Brand identity

Marks, systems and the rules that keep them alive after we hand them over. Built from construction geometry, not from a mood board.

02

Illustration

Original drawing — cities, characters, maps, packaging. Nothing generated and passed off as drawn; when a machine helped, we say so.

03

Print & out-of-home

Billboards, packaging, editorial. Work that has to survive being printed two metres wide and seen at sixty kilometres an hour.

04

Interface

Product screens that respect the person using them: real states, real edge cases, real accessibility — not three happy-path mockups.

Selected work [KS® — 02.1]
Hand-drawn line illustration of Podgorica landmarks

Podgorica, drawn by hand

Illustration · Podgorica landmarks

Forte Rose hotel billboard design

Forte Rose

Out-of-home · Five-star hotel, Montenegro

Digital character illustration

Character work

Digital illustration

Agresor board game map of 1940s Europe

Agresor

Board game · Full art direction — see the game →

Second Forte Rose billboard design

Forte Rose — campaign two

Out-of-home · Seasonal variant

Logo construction sketch

Marks in progress

Identity · Construction studies

Grid of client logos designed by Krug Studio

Identity, at volume

Cuka · Norréa · SESA · GOAT Barber Shop · Slatka Planeta · Disciplina Kičme · Legacy

Design is the reason
the AI work lands

A system nobody wants to open automates nothing. If you need both halves from one team, that is the whole point of this studio.

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