Designer's desk with layout prints and swatches

Metarbitex

Graphic designer working across brand identity, editorial layout, and packaging — turning a client's argument into something you can hold, wear, or scroll past twice.

9 yrs
in practice, studio and freelance
70+
brands and publications shipped
12
countries worked with, remote-first

Selected work

A working sample of recent identity, editorial, and packaging projects — full case studies on request.

Coffee roastery branding — Ridge & Rún
Identity2025
Ridge & Rún — coffee roastery rebrand
Stationery line — Loft Paper Co.
Packaging2025
Loft Paper Co. stationery line
Editorial spread — Fielder Quarterly
Editorial2024
Fielder Quarterly, issues 04–07
Clinic identity system — Halcyon Health
Identity + web2024
Halcyon Health clinic system
Festival title sequence — Nordvale
Motion2023
Nordvale festival titles
Bath goods packaging — Salt & Cedar
Packaging2023
Salt & Cedar bath goods
Visual identity — Cobalt Freight
Identity2022
Cobalt Freight visual system
Portrait of Tex, the designer behind Metarbitex

Design that has to work before it gets to look good

I'm Tex — the person behind Metarbitex. Nine years in, spanning an in-house design role at a publishing house, four years at a branding studio, and the last three running independently for founders who need one designer to own the whole visual system, not just the logo.

My process starts with the constraint nobody wants to say out loud: the budget, the print run, the deadline, the founder who hates blue. Good design fits inside that, and still surprises you.

Based in
Lagos, working worldwide
Tools
Figma, Illustrator, InDesign, After Effects
Focus areas
Identity, editorial, packaging
Availability
Booking for Q1 2027

How we could work together

Three ways clients usually bring me in.

Brand identity
Logo, type system, color, and the guidelines that keep it consistent once you hand it to a team.
4–6 weeks
Editorial & print
Layout systems for magazines, reports, and books — grids that hold up across dozens of pages.
2–8 weeks
Packaging
Structural and surface design for physical products, print-ready and production-tested.
3–5 weeks

What clients say

Tex asked better questions about our customers than our own marketing team had. The identity followed from that.
— Founder, Ridge & Rún
We handed over a messy 40-page report template. It came back as something our board actually wanted to read.
— Comms lead, Halcyon Health

Have a brief worth designing for? Let's start there.

hello@metarbitex.com
Emailhello@metarbitex.com
Based inLagos, Nigeria
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