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Strategy, creative,
technology and AI.From first thought
to first version running.

01

We makeThings move.

  • Ideas
  • Brands
  • Products
  • Business

How might we?

02

Think

  • Strategy
  • Positioning
  • Product
  • Opportunity

What’s next?

03

Create

  • Brand
  • Art direction
  • Film
  • Content
  • Experience
Black crepe fabric sliding off an oxidised iron plate, a line of light along one fold.
PANUH
MERUS: water spiralling inside a pipe, still from the MERUS film.
MERUS
MERUS: macro of the ring's seam, where the two aluminium halves meet, with a cobalt inlay and seawater.
MERUS

Matter becomes interface.

04

Build

  • Web
  • Digital product
  • Automation
  • AI systems

Ideas need
somewhere to live.

GAVEA ONE: the P-35 war room screen, with project phases, milestones and pending items.
GAVEA ONE · Demo data
GAVEA ONE
Source
05

Operate

  • Launch
  • Test
  • Manage
  • Evolve

Put it in the world.
Keep it moving.

TestUCL research
Listening station
GAVEA ONE: the P-35 war room screen, with project phases, milestones and pending items.
ManageGAVEA ONE
Operation · Demo data

Think it.Make it.Move it.

From first thought
to first version running.

Selected work/ 01

MERUS

Brand · Film · Landing pageView case

  1. 02 / 07

    Casa Nativa

    Brand · Character · Book · Website · SystemView case

    Casa Nativa: the book open on a wooden table by the river, with chamomile tea and herbs.
  2. 03 / 07

    APACHE

    Concept · Masterplan · NarrativeView case

    APACHE at sunset from above: the lagoon, the pavilions and the sun crown, with the sea behind.
  3. 04 / 07

    FARMARCAS

    Expansion proposal · Method · CampaignView case

    FARMARCAS: relief map of the state of Rio de Janeiro lit up as a network.
  1. Spectrogram of the 68 BPM track, tinted with the experiment's warm light.

    Soundscape

    05 / 07

    Sound · Research · Listening station

  2. GAVEA ONE: the War Room screen of a platform retrofit project.

    GAVEA

    06 / 07

    GAVEA ONE · Operational intelligence

  3. PANUH RITO: a figure crossing a ruined factory hall in a shaft of light.

    PANUH

    07 / 07

    Image direction · Sign system

Approach06

The first versionneeds to exist.

A strategy only starts to create value once it leaves the presentation.

We turn the direction into a first version that is real: a brand, a campaign, a digital product, a tool, a system or an experience.

  • 01Strategy

    • Positioning
    • Business
    • Product
    • Growth
    • Research

  • 02Creative

    • Brand
    • Art direction
    • Film
    • Content
    • Experience

  • 03Technology

    • Web
    • Digital product
    • Automation
    • AI systems
    • Prototyping

AI is notthe product.

It’s part of how we research, create, prototype, automate and build.

About07

Different businesses.Different problems.One way of thinking.

AERA is a strategic and creative studio. We step into an opportunity, organise the problem, build a direction and turn it into a first version that is real.

Between the consultancy that thinks and the supplier that executes: we think, and we build.

  1. 01

    We don’t just deliver the idea. We build the first version.

  2. 02

    The unity is in the method, not in a look applied to every client.

  3. 03

    We turn opportunities into things that can exist, run and grow.

08

Have somethingworth moving?

Let’s build it.

sales@aera.company