|OBSERVE
The studio is shaped by lived diasporic experience. Raised by Cuban and Colombian immigrant parents in New York, we understand culture as something carried — through people, objects, language, and systems. Migration is a way of seeing, and it defines how we work. We work through field research and artistic practice, studying how cultural knowledge is made, held, and transmitted through form, gesture, texture, and process. We examine materials, tools and techniques, environments, and the social systems that shape them. This becomes the foundation for how we build visual, editorial, and strategic projects.
|TRANSLATE
We read typography, tools, and visual structures as evidence — traces of labor, movement, and knowledge in motion. Using various mediums: graphic design, photography, writing, we translate lived practices, embodied knowledge, and ways of making into culturally rich visual worlds and strategies that feel honest and alive.
Clients work with us when they need more than surface-level storytelling: when accuracy, depth, and meaning matter.
| Annick Saralegui, Chief Creative
OCF is led by Annick Maria Saralegui, an interdisciplinary creative designer based in New York City. Before founding the studio, Annick contributed to visual storytelling projects across design, culture, and science, including Field Log, a 250-page book about the tools, hands, and textures shaping Latin American artisanía today, and creative work at biotech companies Evvy and Ginkgo Bioworks. Her practice bridges editorial research and graphic design to communicate complex cultural narratives with clarity and rigor.