Partner & Partners

What Partner & Partners does

Partner & Partners is a worker-owned design studio founded in 2013 and headquartered in Brooklyn, New York. The firm provides professional design services across four practice areas — print, exhibition, interactive, and identity design — serving clients and collaborators in art, architecture, government, and activism. It explicitly prioritizes projects from organizations promoting social, economic, and environmental justice, and it lists more than 100 past and current clients including the NYC Mayor's Office, Queens Museum, Columbia University, MIT Department of Architecture, Hell Gate, the Merwin Conservancy, and the Catskills Visitor Center.

The studio operates under a worker-ownership model, structured as Partner & Partners, LLC, with decision-making distributed among worker-members rather than external shareholders. The current core team comprises eight designers, supported by a network of named past and present collaborators. There is no proprietary technology platform; the firm's "technology" is its design craft, supported by standard web design and development tooling for client deliverables. Product surface spans identity systems, printed publications, physical and interactive exhibitions, and websites. Recent press features in AIGA Eye on Design, Fast Company, It's Nice That, The Creative Independent, and an AIGANY documentary position the firm as a leading voice on cooperative design practice.

The business model is project-based professional services: engagements are typically scoped per project (e.g., branding packages, exhibition builds, website design and development), with no publicly disclosed pricing. Marketing is community-led, relying on organic social channels (Instagram, X), an email mailing list, and earned media in design and culture publications rather than paid acquisition. Geographic scope is primarily Northeast US and New York City, with no claims of international footprint. The firm is actively recruiting UX designers, front-end developers, and project managers, suggesting near-term capacity expansion within its existing service lines.

Name

Partner & Partners

Legal name

Partner & Partners, LLC

Website

https://partnerandpartners.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2013

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Partner & Partners is a worker-owned Brooklyn design studio providing print, exhibition, interactive, and identity design services to cultural institutions, government agencies, universities, and social justice organizations.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

New York

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Design Services: Professional design services including print, exhibition, interactive, and identity work for clients and collaborators in art, architecture, government, and activism sectors.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Partner & Partners is a worker-owned design practice that provides print design, exhibition design, interactive design, and identity design services. The studio serves clients and collaborators in art, architecture, government, and activism, with an explicit focus on projects promoting social, economic, and environmental justice. Deliverables span brand identity systems, printed publications, physical and interactive exhibits, and website design and development.

Product overview

Partner & Partners is a worker-owned design studio offering a unified portfolio of design services rather than a discrete software product. The company provides four interconnected service lines: Print Design Services for publications and collateral; Exhibition Design Services for physical and interactive installations; Interactive Design Services including website design and development; and Identity Design Services for brand systems and visual identity. These services are applied across diverse sectors including art, architecture, government, and activism, with a focus on clients promoting social, economic, and environmental justice.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Print Design Services
• Exhibition Design Services
• Interactive Design Services
• Identity Design Services

Named customers11 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Emerging players

• Open: Worker-owned cooperative design and development studio. Closely comparable governance model (worker-ownership, cooperative structure) and similar service mix (identity, digital), making it a structural analogue even if smaller in client visibility.
• Collectively: Worker-owned cooperative of creative freelancers including designers, strategists, and producers. Comparable cooperative ownership model and mission-driven positioning, though structured as a freelancer collective rather than a studio.

Direct peers

• Manual: Creative agency offering brand strategy, identity, and design across cultural, nonprofit, and consumer sectors. Comparable in service scope and selective client philosophy, though more commercial in client mix.
• Civilization: Independent design studio working across identity, editorial, exhibition, and digital design for cultural and civic clients. Comparable to Partner & Partners in integrated multi-disciplinary offering and arts/cultural sector focus.
• Hyperakt: NYC-based impact design studio serving nonprofits, foundations, and mission-driven organizations with identity, print, and digital design. Closest direct peer — same geography, overlapping client base (nonprofits, cultural institutions, advocacy), and similar social-impact positioning.
• Studio Industries: Design and strategy studio serving nonprofits, foundations, and cultural institutions with brand, communications, and digital design. Similar mission-aligned client base and integrated service approach.
• Pentagram: Renowned multi-partner design firm offering identity, print, exhibition, and digital design. Comparable to Partner & Partners in service mix (identity, print, digital) and partner-led structure, though significantly larger in scale and broader in client base.

Broad incumbents

• Mother Design: Design arm of the global Mother creative network, offering identity, branding, and digital design. Overlaps with Partner & Partners on identity and brand work, but operates at greater scale with a broader, more commercial client roster.
• Wieden+Kennedy: Large independent creative agency with design, brand, and interactive capabilities. Comparable in independent/employee-owned ethos and integrated creative offering, though significantly larger and more commercially oriented.
• IDEO: Global design consultancy offering brand, product, and service design with strong social impact practice. Overlaps with Partner & Partners on impact-oriented design engagements, though IDEO operates at significantly greater scale and scope.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/partnerpartners
• Instagraminstagram.com/partnerandpartners
• Facebookfacebook.com/partnerandpartners

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles8 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments1 record

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