Every project begins with the same question: what would make the right people choose this brand? Here is what that looked like in practice.
Every piece opens full screen. Carousels swipe as carousels, stories play frame by frame, and you can move between clients without losing your place.
We also build concept worlds for brands we would love to work with, so they can see the direction before they commit. This is the difference direction makes: drag across the frame to compare an undirected default image with the house's directed portrait.
Concept work: both images are made with AI. We show concept studies for named brands only with each brand's permission.

The defaultDirectedTwo website concepts, made for firms we would love to work with and shown with their names removed: a land-title and survey firm, and a Florida-to-Jamaica freight company. Open any piece to scroll the site, swipe the phone screens and watch it move.
The brand worlds the house has built for every kind of client we serve, each worn by a sample brand the house created. Swipe through each one, or open its room to see it in context.

The product as its own proof: the serum, its carton and the dose ruler, in hard studio light.
Worn by Calla & Clay, a sample brand made by the house with AI.

The dose ruler on the street, in a lit shelter on a palm-lined avenue.
Worn by Calla & Clay, a sample brand made by the house with AI.

One shade, one face, one number: shade 07 is the hero on every surface.
Worn by Gamut, a sample brand made by the house with AI.

Three skin depths in the same fuchsia, above a city street at blue hour.
Worn by Gamut, a sample brand made by the house with AI.

Star apple and night on white, Gloock over Albert Sans, and a coil that turns through every page.
Worn by Coilhouse, a sample studio made by the house with AI. No real salon, stylist or client appears.

Three posts on healthy hair first, for every texture and every age.
Worn by Coilhouse, a sample studio made by the house with AI. No real salon, stylist or client appears.

Book a chair or meet the stylists from the first screen.
Worn by Coilhouse, a sample studio made by the house with AI. No real salon, stylist or client appears.

Choose the service, the stylist and the time, all on a phone.
Worn by Coilhouse, a sample studio made by the house with AI. No real salon, stylist or client appears.

The arch frames the whole promise: one doctor who knows the whole family.
Worn by Wellmere Family Practice, a sample practice made by the house with AI. No real practice, clinician or patient appears.

The arch poster in a bus shelter on a tree-lined street.
Worn by Wellmere Family Practice, a sample practice made by the house with AI. No real practice, clinician or patient appears.

The arch carried onto the practice front, in lilac on white.
Worn by Wellmere Family Practice, a sample practice made by the house with AI. No real practice, clinician or patient appears.

Book a visit, the clinicians and the hours, right on the first screen.
Worn by Wellmere Family Practice, a sample practice made by the house with AI. No real practice, clinician or patient appears.

Every picture is seen through a clear circle with a fine scale, in Lens Ice and Clear Ink.
Worn by Pellucid Imaging & Labs, a sample practice made by the house with AI. No real practice, clinician or patient appears.

Three posts that walk a first visit, from a warm welcome to results in plain words.
Worn by Pellucid Imaging & Labs, a sample practice made by the house with AI. No real practice, clinician or patient appears.

Book a scan or find a lab test right on the first screen.
Worn by Pellucid Imaging & Labs, a sample practice made by the house with AI. No real practice, clinician or patient appears.

Results arrive on the phone with a plain-words summary and a way to ask a question.
Worn by Pellucid Imaging & Labs, a sample practice made by the house with AI. No real practice, clinician or patient appears.

Fresh Mint and deep-sea ink on white, with a smile curve under the words that matter.
Worn by Smile Cay Dental Studio, a sample studio made by the house with AI. No real practice, dentist or patient appears.

Three posts for anyone who used to dread the chair, and for the little ones too.
Worn by Smile Cay Dental Studio, a sample studio made by the house with AI. No real practice, dentist or patient appears.

Book a visit or meet the team, right on the first screen.
Worn by Smile Cay Dental Studio, a sample studio made by the house with AI. No real practice, dentist or patient appears.

Choose what brings you in, pick a day and a time, and confirm.
Worn by Smile Cay Dental Studio, a sample studio made by the house with AI. No real practice, dentist or patient appears.

The night port as the stage, and the live tracking line as the hero.
Worn by Tidewright Freight & Courier, a sample brand the house created.

A live tracking card over the aircraft being loaded at night, with one tap to track.
Worn by Tidewright Freight & Courier, a sample brand the house created.

The billboard where the trucks pass, lit for the night shift.
Worn by Tidewright Freight & Courier, a sample brand the house created.

The signal line and its stops along every van, so each delivery advertises the next.
Worn by Tidewright Freight & Courier, a sample brand the house created.

Violet and periwinkle in Gabarito, with a dotted landing arc that ends in a sun dot.
Worn by Landed, a sample courier made by the house with AI. No real courier, customer or driver appears.

Three posts about the moment a parcel arrives, from Kingston to every parish.
Worn by Landed, a sample courier made by the house with AI. No real courier, customer or driver appears.

Get your own overseas address or track a parcel from the first screen.
Worn by Landed, a sample courier made by the house with AI. No real courier, customer or driver appears.

Track a parcel from the store to the gate, with a message the minute it lands.
Worn by Landed, a sample courier made by the house with AI. No real courier, customer or driver appears.

Field ochre and cold ink in Geologica, with temperatures set large and light.
Worn by Frost & Field, a sample cold-chain company made by the house with AI. No real company, farmer or driver appears.

Three posts that follow the cold, from the field and the fishing beach to the kitchen door.
Worn by Frost & Field, a sample cold-chain company made by the house with AI. No real company, farmer or driver appears.

Book a cold run or see the live temperature from the first screen.
Worn by Frost & Field, a sample cold-chain company made by the house with AI. No real company, farmer or driver appears.

Every crate’s reading, live on the phone, from farm to kitchen.
Worn by Frost & Field, a sample cold-chain company made by the house with AI. No real company, farmer or driver appears.

Dressed granite, oak and still water: the material does the talking.
Worn by Ashlar & Pike, a sample brand the house created.

The campaign in a bus shelter at dusk, with almost no type.
Worn by Ashlar & Pike, a sample brand the house created.

The brand’s first appearance on a real street, around its own site.
Worn by Ashlar & Pike, a sample brand the house created.

A seal that carries the firm’s name around the K and H, the mark of an established practice. Midnight navy and paper white only, with Newsreader Display over Libre Franklin.
Worn by Kincaid Harlow, a sample law firm made by the house with AI. No real firm, lawyer or client appears.

An editorial portrait, The Brief with its three questions, and the firm’s one-page brief itself, signed and sealed.
Worn by Kincaid Harlow, a sample law firm made by the house with AI. No real firm, lawyer or client appears.

Navy takes command: Book a consultation sits in the top bar, the menu and the first screen, with the practice areas beside it.
Worn by Kincaid Harlow, a sample law firm made by the house with AI. No real firm, lawyer or client appears.

On a phone, each promise is numbered with a section mark, the way a firm numbers its advice, starting with the one-page brief.
Worn by Kincaid Harlow, a sample law firm made by the house with AI. No real firm, lawyer or client appears.

A mark of three gold rings around a burnt orange centre: the home, with everything around it. Tranquil aqua green and burnt orange with a soft gloss, matte gold trim, and Petrona Light over Mona Sans.
Worn by Saltmere, a sample estate agency made by the house with AI. No real agency, agent or home appears.

Every post puts the home at the centre of its rings, with the beach, the town and the airport marked in minutes, and never a price.
Worn by Saltmere, a sample estate agency made by the house with AI. No real agency, agent or home appears.

The first screen asks where, how close to the sea and how many bedrooms, and every home is shown at the centre of its rings.
Worn by Saltmere, a sample estate agency made by the house with AI. No real agency, agent or home appears.

On a phone, each listing carries its rings and its minutes: the sea, the square and Montego Bay, with Book a viewing within reach of the thumb.
Worn by Saltmere, a sample estate agency made by the house with AI. No real agency, agent or home appears.
The billboard on the coast road comes alive: the headline rushes in and settles, the cup slides onto the ink stripe and steams, and the mark lands on the beat.
Worn by Kotch, a sample brand the house created.

The café front at dusk: a lit fascia and a round blade sign, made to be seen from across the street.
Worn by Kotch, a sample brand the house created.

The launch post: four drinks on Kotch green, with one tap to order ahead.
Worn by Kotch, a sample brand the house created.

A carousel that swipes through the menu, drink by drink and plate by plate.
Worn by Kotch, a sample brand the house created.

Order ahead, the menu and Reserve sit in the header and on the first screen, with the drinks as the hero.
Worn by Kotch, a sample brand the house created.

The wordmark, the seal, the type and a menu of coffee, tea, cold drinks and Jamaican food.
Worn by Kotch, a sample brand the house created.

“Kotch” is Jamaican for stopping to rest a while. The name is on every cup, hot, iced and blended.
Worn by Kotch, a sample brand the house created.

The billboard as printed: the headline, the cup on its ink stripe, the mark and the hours.
Worn by Kotch, a sample brand the house created.

Posters for the morning cup, the evening glass and the fig tart in between.
Worn by Hollin & Fig, a sample café made by the house with AI. No real café, guest or staff appears.

A hot cup with a fig sleeve, an iced coffee and a fig tea, all in one colour.
Worn by Hollin & Fig, a sample café made by the house with AI. No real café, guest or staff appears.

A lit fascia and a round blade sign for the evening crowd.
Worn by Hollin & Fig, a sample café made by the house with AI. No real café, guest or staff appears.

Crust, white and ink in Rubik, with a half-moon patty mark and its fork-pressed edge.
Worn by Crimp, a sample bakehouse made by the house with AI. No real bakery, baker or customer appears.

Three posts for the morning window: patties, coco bread, bun and a hot cup.
Worn by Crimp, a sample bakehouse made by the house with AI. No real bakery, baker or customer appears.

Order ahead or see the menu from the first screen.
Worn by Crimp, a sample bakehouse made by the house with AI. No real bakery, baker or customer appears.

Pick a time, choose your patties and collect them warm from the window.
Worn by Crimp, a sample bakehouse made by the house with AI. No real bakery, baker or customer appears.
Three short AI films made by the house: everything we build under one roof, the brands we build for, and how your brand looks out in the world.

Tell us what would make the right people choose your brand. We will show you how we would build it.