Founder by Design

A home for designers building their own thing

  • company

    Founder by Design

  • deliverables

    Brand Identity, Website Design, Development

  • website

    founderby.design

Founder by Design is a community for designers who left corporate, are thinking about it, or are already running their own thing. Evenings, masterminds and an ongoing community in Tokyo, focused on the layer above craft: identity, pricing, saying no, and building a business while still serving clients.

The site needed to feel like the rooms themselves. Small, considered, a little raw. An editorial serif paired with monospace labels, bilingual English and Japanese throughout, and hand-drawn marks in a single acid green that circle, underline and point at the ideas that matter.

Most design events are about craft. This one is about the decision to build.
The topics nobody teaches in design school, tumbling into place as you scroll.
Four ways to take part: evenings, masterminds, community and library.
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