N° 04Studio

A specialist editorial design studio built around clarity.

Pixipap brings together editorial direction, information design and specialist production expertise for the reports, programmes, presentations and document systems organisations rely on when clarity matters.

Polina Nikolova, Founder and Design Director of Pixipap
Polina Nikolova — Founder & Design Director
— Studio leadership

Polina Nikolova

Founder / Design Director

Polina leads editorial strategy and creative direction at Pixipap, bringing more than 15 years of experience across editorial, product and business communication in complex B2B, technology, financial and corporate environments.

BA
Visual Arts & Graphic Design
BSc
Computer Media Technologies
EMBA
Executive Business Administration
Operating model

Pixipap operates as a focused editorial studio with senior creative direction at its core and a trusted network of designers, production specialists, illustrators, copywriters and technical partners. Each team is assembled around the needs and scale of the commission, giving clients consistent leadership, specialist depth and dependable delivery without unnecessary agency layers.

— Principles

How the studio thinks.

01

Editorial first

Every publication begins with the reader, the purpose and the information hierarchy — before visual styling begins.

02

Strategy before style

We establish audience, communication objective, structure and reading behaviour before making visual decisions.

03

Built to be extended

We design systems that internal teams can carry forward across future editions, modules, markets and formats.

— Method

How we work.

Structure comes before styling. Every engagement moves through the same five stages, scaled to the size of the publication.

  1. 01

    Understand

    Audience, purpose, content, stakeholders and business objective.

  2. 02

    Structure

    Information architecture, narrative and editorial hierarchy.

  3. 03

    Design

    Typography, visual system, data, diagrams and imagery.

  4. 04

    Build

    Publication production, refinement and stakeholder review.

  5. 05

    Deliver

    Print-ready files, digital formats and reusable systems where required.

Begin

Have a publication in mind?

Tell us what you're producing, the approximate scope, audience and deadline. We'll review the project and reply within one business day.

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