1) Studio
Studio Rock City is a multidisciplinary creative studio based in New York’s Catskill Mountains. We are a small but capable two-person team that collaborates with a diverse network of creative partners. Together, we bring ideas to life — from books and branding to films, photography, and large-scale art installations — through thoughtful direction, design, strategy, and production.
Studio Rock City is a multidisciplinary creative studio based in New York’s Catskill Mountains. We are a small but capable two-person team that collaborates with a diverse network of creative partners. Together, we bring ideas to life — from books and branding to films, photography, and large-scale art installations — through thoughtful direction, design, strategy, and production.
2) Our Approach
We play with words and images to shape meaning, challenge established traditions, investigate popular visual culture and design new visual languages that comment on our present moment. We strive to use space, objects, words and images to explore and promote relevance, inclusivity, equality and democracy. Our approach is informed by our location in the Catskill Mountains, its history, ecology and unique social context. We try not to impose our view of reality onto anyone else: We are neither didactic nor dogmatic. We are working towards an intersectional model for our Studio, our Family, and our Community.
We see every project as a meeting point — where ideas, people, and places converge. Each one is shaped by the client or user, the designer or maker, and the context of site, time, and culture. Together, these threads weave the story of a project. Collaboration sits at the heart of our process; we listen closely, value every point of view, and build solutions that reflect the richness of all those voices.
Our practice is deeply rooted in the Catskill Mountains — shaped by its history, ecology, and ever-changing social landscape. We don’t claim to hold the truth; we’re not here to preach. We’re here to learn, to listen, and to build an intersectional model for our Studio, our Family, and our Community.
A note about this website: it’s not an archive. Think of it as a rotating collection — a living edit of up to five commercial and five research projects, updated each month. If you’d like to see more of what we’ve been up to, we’d be happy to share a broader selection as a downloadable PDF. Just send us an email.
We see every project as a meeting point — where ideas, people, and places converge. Each one is shaped by the client or user, the designer or maker, and the context of site, time, and culture. Together, these threads weave the story of a project. Collaboration sits at the heart of our process; we listen closely, value every point of view, and build solutions that reflect the richness of all those voices.
Our practice is deeply rooted in the Catskill Mountains — shaped by its history, ecology, and ever-changing social landscape. We don’t claim to hold the truth; we’re not here to preach. We’re here to learn, to listen, and to build an intersectional model for our Studio, our Family, and our Community.
A note about this website: it’s not an archive. Think of it as a rotating collection — a living edit of up to five commercial and five research projects, updated each month. If you’d like to see more of what we’ve been up to, we’d be happy to share a broader selection as a downloadable PDF. Just send us an email.
We see every project as a meeting point — where ideas, people, and places converge. Each one is shaped by the client or user, the designer or maker, and the context of site, time, and culture. Together, these threads weave the story of a project. Collaboration sits at the heart of our process; we listen closely, value every point of view, and build solutions that reflect the richness of all those voices.
Our practice is deeply rooted in the Catskill Mountains — shaped by its history, ecology, and ever-changing social landscape. We don’t claim to hold the truth; we’re not here to preach. We’re here to learn, to listen, and to build an intersectional model for our Studio, our Family, and our Community.
A note about this website: it’s not an archive. Think of it as a rotating collection — a living edit of up to five commercial and five research projects, updated each month. If you’d like to see more of what we’ve been up to, we’d be happy to share a broader selection as a downloadable PDF. Just send us an email.
3) Our team
Winona Barton-Ballentine is a third generation Catskills native, Winona was raised exploring homes in the Hudson Valley. She received a BA and an MFA in photography from Bard College, and after living in NYC for 10 years, settled in Woodstock, NY, where she has been photographing people and places since 2014.
Winona Barton-Ballentine is a third generation Catskills native, Winona was raised exploring homes in the Hudson Valley. She received a BA and an MFA in photography from Bard College, and after living in NYC for 10 years, settled in Woodstock, NY, where she has been photographing people and places since 2014.
Winona Barton-Ballentine is a third generation Catskills native, Winona was raised exploring homes in the Hudson Valley. She received a BA and an MFA in photography from Bard College, and after living in NYC for 10 years, settled in Woodstock, NY, where she has been photographing people and places since 2014.
Duncan Hamilton is an artist, graphic designer, and design educator based in Woodstock, New York. He has a broad creative practice that covers a wide range of commercial and self-initiated design projects. He works across disciplines producing books, posters, typefaces, and visual identities as well as curated exhibitions, web projects, mobile platforms, music, and video. He is the co-founder of Poetics Lab, a trans-disciplinary creative initiative at Pratt Institute, where he is Professor of Design.
Duncan Hamilton is an artist, graphic designer, and design educator based in Woodstock, New York. He has a broad creative practice that covers a wide range of commercial and self-initiated design projects. He works across disciplines producing books, posters, typefaces, and visual identities as well as curated exhibitions, web projects, mobile platforms, music, and video. He is the co-founder of Poetics Lab, a trans-disciplinary creative initiative at Pratt Institute, where he is Professor of Design.
Duncan Hamilton is an artist, graphic designer, and design educator based in Woodstock, New York. He has a broad creative practice that covers a wide range of commercial and self-initiated design projects. He works across disciplines producing books, posters, typefaces, and visual identities as well as curated exhibitions, web projects, mobile platforms, music, and video. He is the co-founder of Poetics Lab, a trans-disciplinary creative initiative at Pratt Institute, where he is Professor of Design.
4) Services
Art Direction
Animation
Branding
Brand Strategy
Strategy
Strategy
Consultancy
Copywriting
Illustration
Installation
Interactive
Mural Design
Packaging
Photography
Concepts
Digital Design
Digital Design
Digital Design
Environmental
Environment
Environment
Exhibition
Film & Video
Identity
Production
Social
Styling
Web Design
Illustration
Installation
Interactive
Mural Design
Packaging
Photography
Production
Social Strategy
Social
Social Content
Styling
Web Design
5) Selected clients
5) Selected clients
Adidas
Arts Council
Arielle De Pinto
Arielle De Pinto
Arielle De Pinto
AD
BBC
Graphic Mag
Madre
Nike
No.6 Store
Printed Matter
Columbia Uni
Chronogram
Dexter Sinister
Dwell
Frieze Projects
Poetics Lab
Urban Outfitters
Walker AC
Westreich AA
WTVR
Graphic Magazine
Graphic Mag
Madre
Madre
Nike
No.6 Store
Printed Matter
Poetics Lab
Urban Outfitters
Walker Art Center
Walker AC
Westreich AA
WTVR