The studio



A small room
of loud
people.




Northbay is a brand, web, and motion studio in Portland, Oregon. We're small on purpose — a dozen strategists, designers, and animators who would rather make one loud thing than ten quiet ones. Point of view is the product. If a brand won't take a side, we're the wrong room for it.





The Northbay Studio workspace in a converted Portland cannery


Strategy — Design — Motion — Made loud — Portland, OR — Strategy — Design — Motion — Made loud — Portland, OR —





The people / 12 total


Names on
the door.



Maya Renfrew


Maya Renfrew

Founder / Strategy


Writes the sentence nobody wants to say out loud, then builds the brand around it.


Deacon Cole


Deacon Cole

Creative Director


Believes the first frame should stop the scroll and the second should earn the click.


Priya Nadal


Priya Nadal

Design Lead


Draws the line between bold and broken, then walks right up to it on purpose.


Theo Vance


Theo Vance

Motion Director


Times every cut to the beat you didn't know was there. Hates a lazy fade.


Sam Okafor


Sam Okafor

Producer


Keeps twelve loud opinions on schedule and under budget. Somehow smiling.









What we believe


Three rules.
No exceptions.




01


Say the
true thing


The kind thing and the true thing are usually the same sentence, just said louder. Every project starts by writing down what nobody wants to admit.



02


Ship it
loud


Quiet work dies quiet. We build for the scroll-stopping first frame, then earn the second and the third. Polite never got remembered.



03


No orphaned
pixels


Every element pays rent. If it doesn't carry weight, it's off the page by Friday. Clutter is just fear taking up space.











09 Years running



27 Cities shipped in



0 Stock photos used. Ever.










Portland, OR — taking on 4 projects this quarter


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