OB2 House is Owen Burrows.

The "we" on this site is a studio, not a staff list. It's me — a designer in Manchester who has spent since 2018 building brands and products for early-stage companies, and the last stretch building my own. If you hire OB2 House, I'm who you get.

Brand and product, with a paid-media background — which means the identity gets built knowing how it will be tested.

The record

2018—2020

WeAreNova Co-foundry

Brand and product design across five ventures — naming and identity for Menu Guru, brand for NerdBox and Mordex, brand and interface for Sitewise. One client relationship that kept sending work back.

2019

Limbo Radio

Identity, website and event system for the Manchester station. Mixmag, FACT and Crack covered the relaunch.

2023

Squawka

Logo rebuilt for legibility at the sizes it actually gets used at, with the colour and type system underneath it.

In-house

Better Collective

Creative strategy, paid social and performance marketing, with hands-on CRO experimentation.

Now

OB2 House

Contract brand and product work, and two products of my own — MaxEdge and SendTheJob — designed and built end to end.

Building now

MaxEdge

Football value-betting intelligence with a public record.

SendTheJob

Missed-call recovery for sole traders.

What you're buying

Someone who will tell you when the brief is wrong. NerdBox's founder was told his company name was the problem. He kept it, and we built an identity strong enough that the name stopped being the first thing anyone judged.

That project is on this site, disagreement included, because it is the most useful thing I can show you about how I work — including the part where I was overruled and got on with it. The same goes for the gaps: where a result isn't confirmed, the page says so rather than implying one.

Based

Manchester, UK

Works in

Brand strategy · Visual identity · UX/UI · Creative strategy · CRO

Direct

owen@ob2.co.uk

Taking on contract and project work.

Start a conversation

Draft note — not for publication

Still needed before this page goes live:

Start year. "Since 2018" is the earliest date in the case studies — if you worked professionally before that, this undersells you.
Better Collective — dates, and the job title you want stated.
Squawka (2023) sits inside the Better Collective years. Was it done as staff there, as contract, or independently? Same IP question as Fusion Hub, and it answers the open question on the Squawka page.
Do you bring collaborators in? If yes this page needs a sentence saying so — it is the honest complement to "we". If no, say nothing and it stays true.
Is a photograph wanted here? Contract buyers check for a face as well as a name.
Reachability: this page is linked only from /studio. Decide whether it also belongs in the nav.
Building now lists MaxEdge and SendTheJob only. Fusion Hub was built inside Better Collective — decide whether it belongs here too, which is the same IP question as above.