mini studio is a French design atelier based in Paris and Tokyo, founded by Mia Thibierge and Justine Magnat-Biermé.

In 2025, we decided to rethink the identity to establish ourselves within the landscape of French and international graphic design studios.

The logo, inspired by medieval illumination and nature, reflects the founders’ appreciation for ornamentation and precious details—echoing the actual name of the studio.

GT Maru (Grilli Type), with its generous curves and playful demeanor, sets the studio’s name and geographical anchors, Paris and Tokyo. Its inspiration, Japanese signage, perfectly underscores mini studio’s international setting.

It is complemented by Matthieu Cortat’s Louize (205TF), whose typographic elegance, tinged with literary charm, reflects the studio’s affection for printed matter and typography.

It all comes together in the studio’s letterpress printed business cards.
The Japanese text on one of the cards was set in Yoshimichi Ohira’s Zen Old Mincho.

Design of the visual identity for Galette Party, a Lyon-based event dedicated to tasting traditional galettes des rois (king cake or Epiphany cake), bringing together a curated selection of the city’s best artisan pastry chefs.

The project includes the creation of the official event poster, social media visuals, and the “Galette Tour” pass, designed as a stampable card to be marked throughout the tasting journey.

The artwork aims to reflect the event’s gourmet, festive, and artisanal spirit while providing a strong and cohesive visual identity across all communication materials, created by the studio C’est par là.

Flip is a newly-born brand of canned flavored waters, made in Switzerland. It adopts a fun, “I’m not a soda” communication directed towards soda-addicted / water-bored adults.

The logo sports NaN Fiasco in its blackest weight, showing the /fl ligature with its misaligned stem. The font is also re-used for headlines, in all caps, on their website. GT Maru is used everywhere else, in its medium weight. The duo of the black glitchy geometric sans and slightly-bold rounded sans make for a very friendly typographic palette, almost childish and leaning in the direction of the candy company Haribo. But the use of a subtle colour palette and of flat colors brings the language back to a more serious and adult realm.

Dinette Market is a project imagined by Jérémy Raucq, crafting gourmet rugs and objects in Lyon, France.

The main typeface, Pimpit, was created by the talented Benoît Bodhuin and the secondary typefaces Chaumont Script and GT Maru are equally brilliant. The website was lovingly and humorously designed using Readymag.

Find out more about the project on the website of C’est par là or on Instagram.

Happy Ending is a new casual cocktail and natural wine bar, from the people behind Nektar. It resides in an old massage studio in the heart of Oslo. The website has a built-in day/night colour mode, that automatically changes when night comes. The identity tries to bind the cheeky word play all together, balancing between the humorous and something a bit more kinky. Designed by Smuss Studio, and photos by Simen Øvergaaard.

The visual identity for the new Maurice Sfez café in Paris, part of Moise Sfez's Homer Food Group, was designed by Atelier Choque Le Goff in 2024.

The publication Geopolitics is part of an exhibition identity for a series curated by Chun-chi Wang (Idolon Studio). It explores artworks related to geopolitical borders.

This bilingual publication features texts in Arabic and English, printed on one type of paper with distinct color schemes for each language. A magenta elastic band allows the book to be read from both sides, with two covers reflecting its dual-language format. The green silkscreen-printed cover is produced in our workshop, referencing the interior artwork.

The first exhibition was held at Al Madina Theater, Beirut, Lebanon, from November 29 to December 19, 2021, as part of the larger series Contemporary Art from Taiwan—Exhibitions, Screenings, Publications, featuring artists Chen Shiau-Peng, Ting Chaong-Wen, and Liu Ho-Jang. The artworks address themes of geopolitics and broader questions of aesthetics and politics.

From Hardie Grant:

Tim Anderson shows you how you can build your own delicious bowl from scratch as well as how you can construct your very own bento (Japan's beloved and beautiful lunch boxes) from the comfort of your own home. Fun to make (and eat) JapanEasy: Bowls & Bento celebrates the versatility, simplicity and joy of Japanese food. This is everyday self-care and self-love, in bowl and bento form.

Alias Harbour and GT Maru Mega are used for headline type, with GT Maru for secondary type. Japanese text is set in Hiragino Kaku Gothic. See also JapanEasy and Vegan JapanEasy, from the same series.

Meike Männel’s photography is an insight into the artist’s point of view, an invitation to share her kind gaze. With great precision and painterly poetry she carefully chooses her motifs focusing on landscape and nature. Her artist book Good Life transfers her mostly large scale photographs in printed media making use of an oversize format (34×24 cm). The publication features works from various ongoing series, exhibition views and texts by writer Anna Hofmann and art historian Dr. Teresa Bischoff.

Design studio Complex Pleasures chose a combination of GT Maru and GT America, leaving lots of white space for the works. GT Maru’s friendly characters were also used for stickers and cap stitching, becoming a sort of logo.

The book was made available in a limited edition of 100 copies via the artist’s website.

The sixth RUFA annual report, designed by Intorno Design (Guido Lombardo, Roberta De Cristofaro, Fabrizio Crollari), presents the two-year period 2020–2021 as a single temporal unit, the time of COVID-19, the narrative of a year made up of 24 months and 320 pages, the most voluminous academic report to date. The graphic, photographic, and illustrative choices respond to the horror vacui generated by the pandemic and recall the artifices, physical or digital filters, that society has chosen to adopt as tools to stem the contagion. The variety and saturation of the chromatic tones serve as a sort of artistic compensation: having lost the warmth (human, relational, vital), we return it and compensate it in the form of color.

The choice of GT Maru by Grilli Type, which incorporates many emoji within the stylistic set, the type composition and layout refer directly to the modes and practices of digital devices, to which we have been and still are overexposed every day.

The photographic project on the first pages presents portraits of people with leading roles within the Academy who interact symbolically and playfully with a physical Plexigas filter often used in academic premises.

The illustration project introducing each course of study, on the other hand, pays tribute to the great international personalities who passed away over these two years, leaving a great legacy through their work to the students and creatives of today.

The photo project presenting the RUFA staff also evokes attitudes and moments of life that we all experienced during the pandemic period, ironically mocking the collaboration of the academic team.

Counter is an Orlando-based brand studio that focuses on building sensible and scalable brand systems. For Fletch & Lo, a high-end pet boutique, they created a brand ecosystem inspired by a mashup of English royalty and local Alabama aesthetic—two important themes to the company's culture. The branding features Mara des Bois by Roxaboxen Studio (available via Future Fonts) and GT Maru by Grilli Type.