→ 01. Meet

→ 01. Meet

→ 01. Meet

OLI UYGUN

OLI UYGUN

OLI UYGUN

Oli is a brand strategist, creative director, artist and the founder of Atelier WOO.

Oli has worked with over 50 founders, creating a visual world around what they loved building. His methodology comes down to two simple keywords: handmade and intimate.


He works with one founder at a time, spending time with them to understand their worldview, how they think and operate as a founder and as a person. Sitting with the founder means spending time not only with them, but also their loved ones, their competition & their audience.

Oli is a brand strategist, creative director, artist and the founder of Atelier WOO.

Oli has worked with over 50 founders, creating a visual world around what they loved building. His methodology comes down to two simple keywords: handmade and intimate.


He works with one founder at a time, spending time with them to understand their worldview, how they think and operate as a founder and as a person. Sitting with the founder means spending time not only with them, but also their loved ones, their competition & their audience.

Oli is a brand strategist, creative director, artist and the founder of Atelier WOO.

Oli has worked with over 50 founders, creating a visual world around what they loved building. His methodology comes down to two simple keywords: handmade and intimate.


He works with one founder at a time, spending time with them to understand their worldview, how they think and operate as a founder and as a person. Sitting with the founder means spending time not only with them, but also their loved ones, their competition & their audience.

Ol Uygun, creative director, artist and the founder of Atelier WOO
Ol Uygun, creative director, artist and the founder of Atelier WOO

Personalized
& People-made

Personalized
& People-made

Once he has spent a decent amount of time obsessing over the same obstacles as the founder does, the creative work begins. Everything from the visual language, the copy, the content to the web experience comes directly out of Oli’s understanding from his time with the founder.


Handmade, in that sense, means something precise: made by real craftspeople, for this particular thing, and for nobody else. This is where Atelier WOO’s philosophy of radical value is rooted: Oli’s personal conviction that in a world increasingly shaped by automation and sameness, only a brand built in this fashion can achieve long-term, sustainable growth.

Once he has spent a decent amount of time obsessing over the same obstacles as the founder does, the creative work begins. Everything from the visual language, the copy, the content to the web experience comes directly out of Oli’s understanding from his time with the founder.


Handmade, in that sense, means something precise: made by real craftspeople, for this particular thing, and for nobody else. This is where Atelier WOO’s philosophy of radical value is rooted: Oli’s personal conviction that in a world increasingly shaped by automation and sameness, only a brand built in this fashion can achieve long-term, sustainable growth.

Ol Uygun, creative director, artist and the founder of Atelier WOO
Ol Uygun, creative director, artist and the founder of Atelier WOO

A Creative Collaborative

A Creative
Collaborative

Atelier WOO takes on a limited number of founders every year to preserve the intimate approach it adopts. Past clients come together at WOO's salons.

Atelier WOO takes on a limited number of founders every year to preserve the intimate approach it adopts. Past clients come together at WOO's salons.

→ 02 About

OLI'S
approach

→ 02 About

OLI'S
approach

→ 02 About

OLI'S
approach

World-building &
Cultural authority

World-building &
Cultural authority

Taste in and of itself doesn’t guarantee connection anymore. Neither does voice. In the age of automation discerning brands must tie their worldview to culture.

Taste in and of itself doesn’t guarantee connection anymore. Neither does voice. In the age of automation discerning brands must tie their worldview to culture.

→ 03 About

OLI'S
story

→ 03 About

OLI'S
story

→ 03 About

OLI'S
story

New York + Amsterdam
Art + Creative

New York + Amsterdam
Art + Creative

Oli resides in New York City, where he runs Atelier WOO while maintaining a local studio in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Alongside his work at WOO, he maintains a studio practice as a multidisciplinary artist.


Holding a B.S. in MIS, a B.A. in New Media from the University of Amsterdam, and an M.B.A., Oli is fluent in Italian, Turkish and English. He lives in New York with his partner and their dog, Mochi.

Oli resides in New York City, where he runs Atelier WOO while maintaining a local studio in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Alongside his work at WOO, he maintains a studio practice as a multidisciplinary artist.


Holding a B.S. in MIS, a B.A. in New Media from the University of Amsterdam, and an M.B.A., Oli is fluent in Italian, Turkish and English. He lives in New York with his partner and their dog, Mochi.

Oli Uygun, founder of Atelier WOO, creative director and artist based in NYC

Oli Uygun & Petra the Peacock, New York

Oli Uygun, founder of Atelier WOO, creative director and artist based in NYC

Oli Uygun & Petra the Peacock, New York

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Atelier WOO is a full-service brand strategy and creative studio based in New York + Amsterdam. We help design-led businesses reposition their brand so they can show and charge what their work is worth. We find what makes each founder hard to copy and build a visual world around it. And we do it by hand.

Atelier WOO is a full-service brand strategy and creative studio based in New York + Amsterdam. We help design-led businesses reposition their brand so they can show and charge what their work is worth. We find what makes each founder hard to copy and build a visual world around it. And we do it by hand.