Best for: Technology, health/science, fintech, and crypto companies that need a launch-moment brand and website — particularly VC-backed startups and growing companies where the first impression carries real weight and motion-forward, technically distinctive design is the brief.cohesive thing.
Non-Linear Studio’s output is genuinely among the most distinctive on this list — the motion-forward, WebGL-driven work for Shift5, Integrated Reasoning, and Atria consistently wins the industry’s most competitive recognition, and the studio’s ability to make technically complex products feel visually compelling is rare at this scale. The honest caveat is track record depth: founded in 2020 with five verified Clutch reviews, the quality signals are strong but the verified client evidence is still building.
Reviewed by Chelsea Greene
The Full Read
Non-Linear Studio was co-founded around 2020 by Quintin Lodge (designer, based in Utah and New York) and Mario Sanchez Maselli (developer, based in Tallinn) — a rare founding pair that puts creative direction and technical development in the same room from the first brief. The studio stays deliberately small, and that smallness shows in the work. There are no layers between the founders and the output.
What sets NLS apart is the technical range they apply to brand work. WebGL, 3D asset creation, advanced motion, and custom interactions aren’t add-ons for them — they’re the default vocabulary. The Shift5 cybersecurity platform, the Integrated Reasoning computer science site, and the Atria health platform all show a studio that can translate genuinely complex subject matter into something visually arresting without losing the substance. The award record backs this up: Awwwards, FWA, European Design Awards, Lovie Awards, Davey Awards, CSS Design Awards — all with direct, verifiable links across five years of work.
The studio is also trusted by Nike, General Motors, and PayPal for undisclosed work, which signals a credibility threshold that most five-year-old studios don’t reach. That the current public portfolio sits mostly in funded startups and growing companies rather than those household names is a function of NDA, not output quality.
The honest tradeoff: five Clutch reviews is a thin public evidence base, and the studio’s model — small, senior, deliberately capacity-constrained — means they take limited projects at a time. If your timeline is aggressive or you need scale across multiple parallel workstreams, the model may not fit.
What Non-Linear Studio Does
Four practice areas, almost always running in parallel on the same senior team.
Branding
Identity systems for digital-first brands, with a particular strength in technically ambitious companies where the visual language needs to match the product ambition.
Logo Development · Brand Strategy · Corporate Identities · Brand Guidelines · Art Direction · Iconography · Typography
Design
Website design, app design, and e-commerce with 3D asset creation and motion built into the process rather than bolted on after.
Website Design · App Design · E-Commerce Design · 3D Asset Creation · 2D/3D Animation · Packaging Design · Brand Collateral
Experience
UX and information architecture for platforms where complexity needs to be made navigable without being dumbed down.
Strategy · Competitive Analysis · UX Design · Information Architecture · Digital Product Design · Prototyping
Development
In-house front-end and back-end development with WebGL and 3D experience capabilities — the same team that designs also builds.
Web Development · CMS-driven Sites · E-Commerce · Motion & Interaction · WebGL & 3D · API Integration · Hosting & Support
Selected Work
A snapshot of recent named projects. Full case studies on the agency’s site.
Shift5
Branding · Art Direction · 3D/Motion · WebGL · Website · Technology
A full brand and digital platform for a cybersecurity company protecting operational technology on planes, trains, and military vehicles.
Two Sigma Academy
Branding · Website · WebGL · Non-Profit
Brand and digital build for the educational arm of quantitative investment firm Two Sigma.
Integrated Reasoning
Branding · Website · 3D · WebGL · Technology
A retrofuturistic brand and site for an engineering company tackling unsolvable computer science problems. Featured in Communication Arts.
Atria
Website · 3D/Motion · Health / Science
A motion-forward website for a longevity medicine platform, winning European Design Gold and multiple Awwwards recognitions.
General Medicine
Brand Design · Website · 3D/Motion · Health / Science
Brand and website for a modern primary care platform built around patient experience.
Luka Dončić Foundation
Website · 3D/Motion · Non-Profit
Website design and motion work for the NBA star’s charitable foundation.
Fasset
Branding · Website · WebGL · Technology / Fintech
Brand and digital build for a regulated digital asset platform in the Gulf region.
Bao Society
Brand Design · Website · WebGL · Crypto
Brand identity, website design, and WebGL experience for a Web3 community platform.
Hire Non-Linear Studio If You Need…
- Motion-forward, WebGL-driven design for a launch moment that needs to make an immediate impression
- A founding team that handles brand, design, and development in-house — no handoffs, no B-team
- Technical subject matter translated into visually compelling digital experiences
- Award-tier output without the overhead of a large agency
- A studio with proven credibility across funded startups, enterprise, and marquee clients
Skip Non-Linear Studio If…
- You need a large team or parallel workstreams — the studio is deliberately small and capacity-constrained
- Your brief is primarily product UX or design systems rather than brand and marketing site
- You need a studio with a deep verified client review record to satisfy procurement or stakeholder requirements
Independent Verification
Awards
2026: Awwwards SOTD + Developer Award — Shift5 · FWA Site of the Day — Shift5 · CSS Design Awards WOTD — Shift5
2024: Awwwards SOTD + Developer Award — Non-Linear Studio · Awwwards SOTD + Developer Award — Integrated Reasoning · FWA SOTD — Integrated Reasoning · CSS Design Awards WOTD — Integrated Reasoning
2023: Awwwards SOTD — Atria · European Design Awards Gold — Atria · Lovie Awards Silver — Best Design, Atria · Davey Awards Gold — Best Animation, Elva
2022: Awwwards SOTD — Elva · FWA SOTD — Elva · CSS Design Awards WOTD — Elva
Clutch
5.0
5 verified reviews
Clients highlight exceptional creative direction, technical depth, deep research into client subject matter, and design and development quality that consistently exceeds expectations.
What clients consistently mention across verified Clutch reviews: astonishing creativity and energy, ability to listen and translate vision, design and development quality exceeds expectations, deeply researches client’s technical domain, organized codebase, excellent creative direction.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Quintin Lodge and Mario Sanchez Maselli co-founded the studio around 2020. Quintin leads design, brand strategy, and creative direction from Utah and New York. Mario leads front-end development, WebGL, and interactive experiences from Tallinn, Estonia. The combination of a designer and a developer as equal co-founders shapes how the studio works — design and build are the same conversation, not sequential steps.
Deliberately small. The studio operates with a compact senior team and keeps capacity intentional — each project gets the founding team’s attention, not a pool of generalists. This is a strength for clients who want senior hands on their work, and a constraint for projects that need scale or speed across multiple simultaneous workstreams.
The combination of WebGL, 3D asset creation, and advanced motion design built in-house — not outsourced. Most agencies design in Figma and hand off to a developer; NLS designs and builds in the same room, which means the motion and interactivity are part of the brief from day one rather than added at the end.
Yes — Nike, General Motors, and PayPal are listed as clients, though specific work for those brands is under NDA. The public portfolio sits mostly in VC-backed startups and growing companies, reflecting what can be shown rather than what’s been built.
Three locations: Park City, Utah; New York City; and Tallinn, Estonia. The studio works globally with clients across North America, Europe, and the Middle East.
Ready to see if Non-Linear Studio fits your project?
Visit the agency’s site to view their full portfolio, or compare them against the rest of our top picks.