Formwork

An ongoing construction site.
Formwork is an independent design studio founded by Barbara Virginia Tedeschi (IT) and César Bourgeois (FR), working across visual communication, art direction, and spatial thinking.

We guide projects through their formation. We are drawn to ideas in the making — unstable, unfinished, and full of potential. We work to develop solid foundations, building structures designed to hold and evolve over time. Alongside client work, Formwork operates as a Lab. A space for independent exploration, where ideas can exist outside of immediate application. These experiments generate friction, producing noise that feeds back into commissioned projects.

Services

Art Direction

Typography

Exhibition Design

Editorial Design

Brand Identity

Website Design

Clients
Nekua
Massimo Osti Studio

Selle Royal Group

Under

Maison Chimère

info@formworkstudio.eu, @formworkstudio.eu

Services

Art Direction

Typography

Exhibition Design

Editorial Design

Brand Identity

Website Design

Clients
Nekua
Massimo Osti Studio

Selle Royal Group

Under

Maison Chimère

info@formworkstudio.eu, @formworkstudio.eu

A logo and symbol for Superlight, a floral design studio and online retail space based in Fishtown, Philadelphia, rooted in a modern, minimal approach to floral design shaped by the study of Sogetsu Ikebana. The mark was developed through a process that moves back and forth between analogue and digital, letting each pass through the other reshape the form until it settles — the same attention to seasonality, material and composition that defines the studio's own work. The name itself takes its cue from the Superleggera 699 chair, and the identity follows that same instinct toward lightness and intention. The studio also led the art direction of the website, extending the same process into the digital space it now lives in.

Design: Formwork Studio

Client: Superlight Studio

Project type: Logo, Symbol, Art Direction (Website)

Year: 2025

Based in: Fishtown, Philadelphia