Maya Okafor
Founder & Creative Director
Leads brand and creative direction. A decade in brand studios, obsessed with the first three seconds.
About the studio
We are the team behind the work.
Emberline is a compact, senior studio of strategists, designers, engineers and motion artists. We take on a handful of partners at a time so the people you meet are the people who do the work.
Our story
Founded on a simple frustration.
In 2014 Maya Okafor and Diego Marín left a large agency tired of watching great ideas get diluted between departments. They wanted one room where strategy, design and code sat together — and where a founder could talk to the person actually building their product.
Twelve years later that is still the whole model. No account layer, no junior hand-offs, no work shipped just to fill a portfolio. We pick projects we believe in, go deep, and leave every partner with something better than they asked for.
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How we work
Four principles, every project.
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Strategy before pixels
We do not start designing until we understand the business, the audience and the one decision the work has to drive.
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Senior hands, no hand-offs
The team you meet in the pitch is the team that ships. We keep the studio small on purpose so quality never gets diluted.
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Design and code in one room
When designers and engineers share a table, the details survive the build. Nothing gets lost in translation.
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Built to scale, not to demo
Every system we ship is meant to be used, extended and maintained long after launch day. We leave you stronger, not dependent.
The team
The people you will actually work with.
Diego Marín
Head of Design
Runs product and interface design, and the systems that keep them consistent.
Lena Voss
Strategy Director
Turns messy ambition into a sharp brief, a clear story and a plan that holds.
Theo Bright
Technical Director
Builds fast, accessible products and the animation that makes them feel alive.
Work with us
Think we might be a fit?
We take on a handful of new partners each quarter. Tell us about yours.