Deadly serious about what we build.
Playful enough to be dangerous.

Strategy

Industrial Design

Branding

47.6062° N, 122.3321° W

Methods of Play is a global design studio with unreasonable curiosity. We build original IP, design products that inspire culture, and help restless brands win markets.

Services

Design Strategy

Research, category analysis, positioning and intention driven thinking to build a point of view worth owning. The foundation every product decision should be made against.

Industrial Design

Physical products from concept through production with form, function, manufacturing intent - resolved to the last detail. We have shipped 100s of products that move culture.

Branding

Identity systems, art direction, and visual storytelling for brands that know what they stand for. We work across every touchpoint - digital, print, packaging, building a world worth belonging to.

Select Clients

Before Methods of Play, our founders designed humanoid robots, space habitats, and consumer hardware for clients like Fauna Robotics, Boeing, PlayStation, and Samsung. That foundation, built across a decade of global experience, is now baked into how we work - across hardware and software, physical and digital, consumer and enterprise.

Adobe

Steelcase

Modern Fertility (Aq. by Ro)

Tohands

JDS Labs

Immersed

Ebite

US, EU

Digifilm

Sonic Lamb

Meadow

Canopy

Merge Edu

Gobi

Outlier Humans

US, IN

Vokyl

JB Air

MOP is currently working on a robot dog

Currently working on a camera

Our north star is simple.
Make things worth caring about.

Currently working on a POS device

We are currently working on a robot

We are currently working on a robot

Our north star is simple.
Make things worth caring about.

We are currently working on a robot

Manifesto

Objects, physical and digital, were meant to have a personality. A point of view. They were meant to make people feel something. But we kept value-engineering the joy out.

Death by a thousand rational decisions. Until everything looked the same.

Same process. Same outcome. Every time.

We never accepted that trade. We came back for the wonder. To build objects people keep, remember, and recommend. To support audacious brands and the ideas that move culture forward.

Play is how we find what others miss. How we pressure-test assumptions, crack market opportunities open, and arrive somewhere no one expected.

Methods is how we turn curiosity into products, experiences, and brands people rally around.

The world deserves serious design through methods of play.

- Sush + Shub

Manifesto

Objects, physical and digital, were meant to have a personality. A point of view. They were meant to make people feel something. But we kept value-engineering the joy out.

Death by a thousand rational decisions. Until everything looked the same.

Same process. Same outcome. Every time.

We never accepted that trade. We came back for the wonder. To build objects people keep, remember, and recommend. To support audacious brands and the ideas that move culture forward.

Play is how we find what others miss. How we pressure-test assumptions, crack market opportunities open, and arrive somewhere no one expected.

Methods is how we turn curiosity into products, experiences, and brands people rally around.

The world deserves serious design through methods of play.

- Sush + Shub

Play with us?

Deadly serious about what we build. Playful enough to be dangerous.

Methods of Play is a global design studio with unreasonable curiosity. We build original IP, design products that inspire culture, and help restless brands win markets.

Deadly serious about what we build.
Playful enough to be dangerous.