Minimalist designer & art director

Søren Vik minimalist designer & art director working in Lisbon.

I design in black, white and the space between. Most of my work is deciding what to leave out, then setting the one thing that remains as large and as calmly as it deserves.

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SVPortrait · self
Selected work05 projects · 2024—26
01

Halt Coffee

Brand
Identity & Packaging · 2026

A typographic identity for a small independent publisher, built around one obsessively-drawn serif.

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02

Plinth Gallery

Web
Web & Wayfinding · 2025

Tactile packaging and a print system that feels handmade without ever leaving the press.

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03

Margin Type

Type
Typeface Design · 2025

A calm, image-led art direction for an audio studio that wanted to sound the way it looks.

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04

Folio Reader

Product
Product & Interface · 2024

A slow, readable site and a custom type pairing for a neighbourhood wine bar.

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05

White Room Press

Print
Editorial & Print · 2024

A botanical illustration series and accompanying marks for a tea house's first shelf.

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About

A practice of one, by choice.

A quiet practice built on subtraction — identity, type and interface for people who trust an empty page to do the talking.

I've spent the last decade in and around studios learning that the work I love most is the work I get to touch every part of — the brief, the sketches, the kerning at midnight, the press check. So now I keep things small on purpose.

When I'm not on a project you'll find me drawing letters that go nowhere, collecting paper I don't need, and teaching the occasional type workshop in Lisbon.

What I do
Identity & MarksOne idea, one weight, one mark — drawn until nothing else is needed to carry it.
Type & EditorialCustom faces and quiet layouts where the page itself does most of the design.
Interface & ProductCalm screens built from whitespace and hairlines, never from shadows or noise.
Hands-on with
Type designRisographLetterpressEditorial layoutHand letteringBookbinding
Selected clients & recognition
HollowType Directors Club — Cert.
MarrowBrand New, featured
TesseraAGDA shortlist
PivotPrint Annual
CardinalIt's Nice That
FathomCommunication Arts
He removed half of everything we'd asked for, and the brand finally looked like us. Restraint as a service.
LA
Lene Aarø
Founder, Halt Coffee
Contact

Let's make something.

I take on a handful of projects each season. If you've got something you care about, I'd love to hear about it — a paragraph is plenty to start.

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