Eleven people in an old print shop on West Broad Street
Verity started in 2016 as two designers and a borrowed table. We stayed small on purpose, so the people you meet are the people who do the work.
Maya or Daniel leads every project and sits in every review. Nobody is handed off after the pitch.
We say no to the tenth, so every client gets the same attention as the first one did.
Work is printed and pinned before it is approved, next to the competition, at real size.
The eleven of us
Maya Okafor
Founder and design director
Leads brand work and every first call. Before Verity, eight years at a New York identity studio.
Daniel Reyes
Partner, strategy
Runs research and the one-page brief. Former product marketer at a Richmond software company.
Ruth Adeyemi
Operations and finance
Keeps scopes, invoices and schedules honest. Sends the sheet behind every quote.
Sam Whitaker
Brand design lead
Type, marks and guides people open. Teaches a Saturday typography class at VCU.
Grace Kimura
Producer
Plans every week of every project and runs the Thursday reviews.
Ines Carvalho
Product design lead
Research, flows and design systems. Rides along before drawing a screen.
Leah Brandt
Senior designer, packaging
Labels, print and anything that has to read from six feet away.
Theo Marsh
Senior product designer
Dashboards and mobile apps for teams with small engineering crews.
Jonah Pierce
Design engineer
Builds components in Framer, React and SwiftUI next to your engineers.
Ana Lucia Ortiz
Designer
Identity and web. Joined from the studio's first internship class.
Owen Hart
Designer, motion
Makes marks and interfaces move, sparingly.
Come by the studio
412 W Broad St, Richmond, Virginia. Monday to Friday, 9 am to 6 pm Eastern. We keep coffee from Halden on the counter and the latest work on the wall.
We open two paid internships every summer. Write to hello@veritystudio.design with ten pieces of work you are proud of.
