What Hush Studios does

Hush Studios is an independent experience design firm founded in 2005 and headquartered in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The firm designs bespoke physical-digital brand experiences for enterprise clients, integrating strategy, story, spatial design, and technology into installations such as workplace headquarters environments, retail brand destinations, sales galleries, media facades, art commissions, and event activations. Its service offering spans four pillars — strategy, story, space, and technology — delivered through capabilities including experience design, animation and film production, custom application development, data visualization, environmental and installation design, experience analytics, placemaking, retail and exhibition design, and wayfinding.

Underlying the work is a proprietary technical stack: real-time previsualization pipelines, mixed reality prototyping (via a Magic Leap partnership), customized enterprise CMS products, experience analytics platforms that capture visitor behavior, and generative content systems that calculate embodied carbon costs of materials to keep physical forms within client-specified carbon budgets. Hush also holds a strategic partnership with Adobe's Firefly AI team, giving it beta access to generative video and image tools. A sub-brand, HUSH/Listen, explores AR-driven product concepts (e.g., a digital record playable through Instagram's AR platform).

Hush operates a professional services, project-based revenue model with quote-based pricing and multi-year contracts. Distribution is direct enterprise sales into C-suite and senior leadership at Fortune 500 and global organizations, supported by an event-driven presence at SEGD, SXSW, Cannes Lions, AIGA, and similar venues, plus a content-marketing portfolio site and earned media in design trade publications. Customers are diversified across enterprise corporations, real estate developers, retail/consumer brands, and cultural/educational institutions, with named logos including Uber, Meta, Google, Nike, Goldman Sachs, Citibank, Capital One, Equinox, Related Companies, Vornado, Visa, Barclays, HBO Max, and Commonwealth Fusion Systems. The firm is privately held, founder-led, and operates without disclosed outside funding.

Name

Hush Studios

Legal name

Hush Studios, Inc.

Website

https://heyhush.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2005

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Hush Studios is a Brooklyn-based independent experience design firm that creates bespoke physical-digital brand experiences — including workplace installations, sales galleries, media facades, and retail destinations — for Fortune 500 enterprise clients across technology, financial services, real estate, and consumer sectors.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Experience Design Services

NAICS

Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries (512), Sound Recording Studios (512240)

SIC

Services-Motion Picture & Video Tape Production (7812), Services-Mailing, Reproduction, Commercial Art & Photography (7330)

akta.pro primary industry

Content Studio & Creative Resourcing (In-house/Embedded Teams) (BPAFAIAJ)

akta.pro secondary industries

Content Production (Video, Design, Copy, Studio) (BPAFAAAF), Recording Studios (Commercial, Project, Mobile) (MPAIAHAA)

Keywords

• Experience design services
• Brand experience design
• Interactive installation design
• Workplace experience design
• Experiential design agency

Headquarters

HQ city

Brooklyn

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, Supply Chain

Revenue model

1. Experience Design Services: Full-service experience design engagements including strategy, design, technology development, and installation. Projects range from workplace experiences, retail experiences, sales galleries, art commissions, and brand activations for enterprise clients.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Hush Studios is an experience design firm that designs and delivers bespoke physical-digital brand experiences for enterprise clients, integrating strategy, story, space, and technology into installations, workplace experiences, media facades, retail destinations, sales galleries, and art commissions. Engagements typically span strategy, spatial design, animation and film production, custom application development, data visualization, environmental design, and experience analytics, with projects delivered as multi-month or multi-year bespoke engagements.

Product overview

Hush Studios is an experience design firm that operates as a single unified offering rather than a platform-plus-modules architecture. Their core offering is bespoke experience design services organized around four pillars: Strategy, Story, Space, and Technology. The company provides a comprehensive suite of design services including Experience Design, Animation & Film Production, Application Development, Data Visualization, Environmental Design, Experience Analytics, Installation Design, Event & Activation Design, Placemaking, Retail Design, Exhibition Design, and Wayfinding. Additionally, they have developed HUSH/Listen as an internal design experiment. Projects are highly customized for each client and typically involve physical-digital installations, workplace experiences, sales galleries, media facades, and art commissions rather than standardized software products.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• HUSH/Listen: A design experiment created by curating music tracks associated with places HUSH has called home, using geographical and music history data to design a digital record playable through Instagram's AR platform.

Products and services

• Experience Design Services Comprehensive bespoke experience design engagements integrating strategy, story, spatial design, and technology implementation for enterprise clients seeking immersive physical-digital brand experiences, including workplace experiences, media facades, sales galleries, art commissions, and interactive installations.
• HUSH/Listen A design experiment sub-brand of Hush Studios that curates music tracks associated with places the studio has called home, using geographical and music history data as inputs to design a digital record playable through Instagram's AR platform.

Quantifiable outcome

• 120,000 visitors reached at Nike Camp Victory experience
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers20 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability11 records

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Adobe FireflycoreTechnology or IntegrationStrategic partnership with Adobe's Firefly A.I. product development team gives Hush beta access to cutting-edge video and image generation tools and pipelines, enabling advanced generative content capabilities for client projects.
• Magic LeapcoreTechnology or IntegrationPartnership with Magic Leap, the leading mixed reality headset for engineering and design, enables Hush to develop 1:1 scale digital prototypes that accelerate stakeholder alignment faster than typical renderings or physical mock-ups.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Emerging players

• Artechouse: Innovative digital art and technology exhibition space creating immersive, technology-driven experiences. Adjacent to Hush's work in installations and exhibition design, though operates as a venue/producer rather than a B2B agency.

Broad incumbents

• R/GA: Global experience design and advertising agency with deep capabilities in connected products, brand systems, and experiential design. Overlaps with Hush in enterprise experience work but operates at significantly greater scale and scope.
• Gensler: Global architecture and design firm with a major experience design practice serving enterprise workplace, retail, and brand experience programs. Overlaps with Hush in design-build experience work but at vastly greater scale.
• Pentagram: Independent design partnership with a brand experience and environmental graphics practice. Comparable to Hush in serving enterprise and cultural clients on flagship experience work, though broader in scope.
• frog (Capgemini Invent): Global design and innovation consultancy, part of Capgemini Invent, focused on product, brand, and experience design for Fortune 500 clients. Comparable to Hush in experience design capability but with much larger global delivery capacity.

Direct peers

• Moment Factory: Montreal-based multimedia experience design studio creating immersive installations and public experiences for global brands. Closely comparable to Hush in combining technology, storytelling, and physical design for enterprise and cultural clients.
• Universal Everything: UK-based digital art and experience design studio creating immersive brand environments, installations, and large-scale media facades. Directly comparable to Hush in spatial storytelling combined with generative content and motion design.
• Stimulant: San Francisco-based experience design and interactive installation studio building large-scale digital and physical experiences. Directly comparable in combining interaction design, data visualization, and spatial computing for enterprise clients.
• ESI Design: New York-based experience design firm (subsidiary of NBBJ) creating interactive brand experiences, digital environments, and media facades. Directly competes with Hush in workplace and public space experience design for enterprise clients.
• Local Projects: New York experience design studio specializing in interactive installations for museums, brand experiences, and public spaces. Comparable to Hush in combining narrative design with custom technology for cultural and enterprise clients.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/HushStudios
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/hush-studios-inc-
• Instagraminstagram.com/officialhushstudios
• Xx.com/hushstudios

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles12 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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