Field Notes & Guides
Choose a subject to find practical guides to planning a website, commissioning art, testing a creative tool, or collecting a work.
Brand identity & websites
Start with the part of your identity people encounter first. For a multilingual practice, that might be a signature in two scripts or the page where a visitor chooses a language.
- Branding and website design in Virginia
See what Hyenas Studio makes for organisations.
- Designing an identity across languages
Compare an English–Arabic identity and a four-language website.
- SEO and website design
Give each service a page people can find and a clear way to enquire.
- What to bring to a website redesign
Identify a real visitor task and decide what needs to survive the redesign.
- Does your brand need a new identity or a better website?
Decide whether the mark, the visitor journey or both need work.
- Motion identity and logo animation
See how to choose a movement, a pace and the files your team will need.
Painting & film commissions
A painting begins with a brief you can develop at your own pace. For a film, the first conversation is about the audience and where they will see it.
- How to commission a painting
Understand involvement levels and how the house finds an artist.
- Planning a painting series for a wall
Work out panel sizes, spacing and the shape of the whole arrangement.
- Choosing a painting surface
Compare stretched canvas, loose canvas, panel and framing.
- Commissioning a film or moving-image work
Describe the viewing space, the material you have and the moment that matters.
- Commissioning a painting for a shared space
Brief a painting for a lobby, workplace or cultural venue.
- How to commission a painting as a gift
Decide who should shape the work and how to plan around the occasion.
- Do you need a brand film or a product demonstration?
Choose the format by what the viewer needs to understand.
Tools for creative practice
Start with a decision that gets lost between people or projects. An example from a real working day gives a new tool a purpose.
- Creative technology for artists and studios
Bring a recurring task to the studio and explore whether a prototype would help.
- How to brief a creative workflow
Describe one handoff and the information that needs to travel with it.
- Planning a creative tool pilot
Choose a small test and decide what would make it worth continuing.
- Does your studio need a custom tool?
Decide what to buy, simplify or prototype before starting a build.
Collecting works & stocking books
A title, an artist’s name or the place you saw a work can start an enquiry. For a bookshop, the quantity and destination help us answer it.
- An original, an edition or a book?
Find the details to ask about before choosing a work.
- Book distribution enquiries
Prepare a request for a bookshop, library or reading room.