Product/2025
Northline Atlas
A mapping tool for researchers walking fog, tide, and unmarked shore — built to be read with wet hands.
Coastal Field Lab
Independent practice · Est. 2018
Work across product, identity, and the rooms they occupy.
Lena Voss is a designer and writer treating type, interface, and space as one material. Based in Portland, Oregon. Selected commissions only.
01 — Work
Selected projects
Eight commissions. Filter by product, identity, editorial, or spatial — hover a card for the brief.
Identity/2025
Hearth & Grain
A brand system for a neighborhood bakery: warm type, quiet packaging, and a mark that looks like flour on linen.
Hearth & Grain Bakery
Editorial/2024
Quiet Hours
A print journal on attention. Three issues a year, set to be read slowly, with no ads and long margins.
Quiet Hours Journal
Spatial/2024
Glasshouse
Exhibition design for a glass pavilion: plants as architecture, labels as whisper, light as the main material.
Westmore Gallery
Product/2024
Field Notes OS
Software for analog researchers — capturing notes, maps, and specimens without dragging a studio into the field.
Field Notes Collective
Editorial/2023
Harbor Press
Identity and site for an independent publisher of essays, poetry, and field guides printed in small editions.
Harbor Press
Identity/2023
Solstice Foundry
A type specimen and foundry identity: metal, walnut, and a catalog that treats letters as objects.
Solstice Type
Spatial/2023
River Room
A hospitality interior on the Willamette — timber, linen, and a long table facing the water at blue hour.
River Room
02 — About
Lena Voss · Portland, Oregon
Trained in rooms, working in pages and products.
Lena Voss is an independent designer working across product systems, editorial identities, and spatial installations. She trained in architecture before moving into digital product, and still thinks in rooms — sequence, light, and the time it takes to notice something.
The studio takes a small number of commissions each year. Clients include publishers, bakeries, field laboratories, and galleries that would rather be precise than loud. The work is quiet on purpose.
When she is not designing, she edits Quiet Hours, a print journal on attention, and walks the Columbia Gorge with a notebook that rarely stays dry.
“Type, interface, and space are the same problem: how a person arrives, and what they are asked to feel while they stay.”
03 — Practice
Skills, held as a studio
A short list of the work the studio actually does — not a stack of logos.
Product systems
Interface architecture, field research, and prototypes for tools that have to work in weather.
Identity
Brand systems, type, and print for companies that prefer to speak quietly.
Editorial
Journals, catalogs, and long-form sites where the page is the product.
Spatial
Exhibition, hospitality, and wayfinding — sequence, light, and the time it takes to notice.
Writing
Essays, art direction, and editing. Words treated as material, not caption.
Type
Custom lettering, specimens, and pairing. Type as the first decision, not the last.
Design
- Product systems
- Brand identity
- Editorial design
- Exhibition
Craft
- Type pairing
- Print production
- Art direction
- Prototyping
Build
- Interface architecture
- Front-end
- Design systems
- Research
04 — Contact
A letter, not a funnel
New work is taken on a few times a year. Tell me what you are making and where it needs to live.