Quiet, durable design for small brands.
Cold Coast is a two-person studio in Reykjavík. We make identities, packaging, signs and small websites for independent shops, cafés and workshops — a few projects a year, done carefully.
Selected work
What we do
Identity
Names, marks and type systems, with a short guide your printer will actually read.
Packaging & print
Labels, bags, menus and booklets, prepared for press with the suppliers you already use.
Signs & wayfinding
Shopfronts, door plaques and route diagrams, tested on foot before anything is made.
Small websites
Hand-built pages and shop themes that load fast and can be updated without calling us.
How a project runs
Visit
We spend a day where the work will live: behind the counter, on the quay, in the workshop.
One direction
We present a single, reasoned proposal rather than three options to choose between.
Make
Files go to print or to the web with us on the phone to the supplier, not after.
Hand over
You get templates and a short guide, so everyday changes never need a designer.
“They asked more questions about our Tuesday deliveries than about our logo. The bags have not changed in two years and we have never had to explain them.”
Owner, Kelda Coffee
Notes
Start a project
Tell us what you are making and when you need it. We take on a new project roughly every six weeks and reply within two working days.