Studio

A small studio shaping calm, considered brands.

Solaris is an independent brand, web, and content studio based in Bangalore, India. We work with founders and teams who want clarity without losing edge.

2026Year founded
5+Projects shipped
5Disciplines
2People in studio
01 / Story

We started Solaris because the work we wanted to do did not fit the agency mould.

Small teams kept asking for one studio that could think across brand, website, content, and search - without handing the project off three times. So we built one.

Today, Solaris is a focused practice. We pick a small number of projects each quarter and bring them through one connected process, with the same people from first call to launch.

02 / Beliefs

How we work, in four lines.

01

Clarity is a feature.

We earn attention by being easier to read, easier to navigate, and easier to act on - not louder.

02

Systems beat one-offs.

We design pieces that fit together so your team can keep shipping without rebuilding the brand each quarter.

03

Taste is execution.

Strategy without craft stays on slides. We carry every decision through to the pixel and the paragraph.

04

Quiet confidence travels.

We prefer brands that hold up across a launch, a press hit, and a quiet Tuesday morning.

03 / Origin

Two of these kids started a studio.

A class photograph from 2006. Fifteen children in blue and red school tracksuits stand in rows outside the school building. Two boys in the back row, Samarth and Dhanush, are circled.2006
Class 1, 2006. Circled, the two of us.
Samarth and Dhanush photographed together in Bangalore in 2026, twenty years after the class photograph.2026
Bangalore, 2026.

20

years since class 1. Solaris is the first thing we have built together.

A two-person studio lives or dies on whether the two people trust each other. We settled that a long time before we started one.

04 / People

One studio, one accountable team.

Samarth Vaibhav

Web Development Architect

Leads the studio's technical practice - architecture, performance, and the engineering behind every brand we ship.

Dhanush

Creative Systems Developer

Builds the systems that hold a brand together - components, patterns, and the connective tissue between brand and product.

Next step

Have something you want to shape with us?

We are taking on a small number of projects each quarter. WhatsApp is the fastest way in.