built to be used, not measured.

kléos

κλέοςancient greek · pronounced klé-os

not fame. — the work outliving the maker.

kleos is what the greeks called the reputation that survives you. fame dies with the room it happens in. we named the studio for the second kind.

the products
michelangelo — david · 1501–1504

victoria

victoria, latin · victory — we kept three letters

kleos is the work. vic is the trying.

vic is short for victoria, and victoria means victory. it is the studio's laboratory: ideas get tried, most get left behind, and the few that survive become kleos.

the laboratory
nike of samothrace — winged victory · c. 190 bc