How did you become designer?

Since we’re answering this as a group, there’s no single “designer origin story.”

DesignRepublic grew quite organically — from a one-person company founded by Murtaza Teke, to the multidisciplinary team we are today. Different backgrounds, different skills, different obsessions… but all brought together by the same love for branding, packaging, and design that actually works in the real world.

Let’s just say none of us can enter a supermarket anymore without turning it into a professional field trip.

How would you define your vision of design, your style? 

Our vision of design is actually quite simple: it has to work.

Of course we care about beauty, style and emotion — but for us, design should also solve something. It should help a brand stand out, tell its story clearly, and perform in the real world, whether that’s on a supermarket shelf or across a full product range.

As for style, we’d say we like things that are clear, bold, relevant, and never decorative just for the sake of it.

For the future, what are your professional projects?

We want to keep doing what excites us most: building brands that are not only beautiful, but genuinely useful and memorable in the real world.

We’re especially interested in growing further with ambitious food and FMCG brands, taking on larger international projects, and continuing to work at the intersection of strategy, creativity and execution.

And ideally, we’d like to keep doing all that while staying the kind of team that still enjoys working together on a Monday morning.