Form is an argument.
Founded in 2019, Delphinium is an interdisciplinary practice across strategy, publishing, and the built environment. We partner with organisations that have something real to say and need the discipline to say it well.
The team, at work
We began by disagreeing with a brief. The client wanted a report. We built a spatial installation alongside it. The installation generated twice the coverage and is still touring. That tension — between the expected output and the right one — is where we live.
Today we work in three practice areas that most studios keep separate. We keep them together because separation is where ideas go to die.
Constraints are the work.
Every brief has edges. We find them before we begin, because the quality of the work lives at the boundary — not the centre where everyone already agrees.
Say the difficult thing first.
Work that outlasts the trend.
We have no interest in the season's vocabulary. What we make is meant to be looked at in ten years and still make sense.
Architectural theorist turned strategy practitioner. 20 years across institutions, governments, and global practices.
Former editor of three award-winning publications. Believes every organisation has a book in it and most should exist.
Runs our organisational work. Spent a decade mapping how decisions actually get made in complex systems.
First commission: a strategic communications framework for a European infrastructure body, delivered alongside a public exhibition.
Launched Futures Annual, now distributed across 18 countries. Won three editorial design distinctions in its first year.
Expanded following three consecutive regional commissions. Now operating across London, New York, and São Paulo.
97% of clients return within two years. We are still disagreeing with briefs.