A STAND OUT

Design that renders the essential unmistakable

WHAT IS A STAND OUT?

A STAND OUT is the studio of Mercedes Kiss

& also a kind of woman.

A STAND OUT is someone whose singular essence is so clearly expressed it becomes luminous.

Poised over noise. Timeless beyond trend. Unmistakable.

The women I work with hold a whole world inside them.

My work is to translate that inner world into a presence the outer world can finally see.
To give form to what's already true, so it can be met.

THE ARCHITECTURE OF PRESENCE

I founded this studio as an artist, writer, designer, and architect of presence and possibility.

I take the fullness of who you are and give it form: your identity, your online presence, the way you’re encountered.
I render the evolving world that lives inside you into form so resolved it feels inevitable.

This goes deeper than branding and reaches further than design. It’s world-building — the structure that lets
your true nature, and the venture it gives rise to, take shape where others can see it.

I draw from architecture, art, photography, graphic design, culture study, and neuroaesthetics, working with founders, entrepreneurs, and creative leaders whose vision hasn’t yet been met by conventional designers.

WORK WITH ME

I design brand identities, online presence, and creative direction for women building something
that’s an extension of who they are — founders, entrepreneurs, creative leaders ready to be unmistakable.

Three questions form the foundation of our work:

• what makes you singular

• how that should look, feel, and move in the world

• how to render it into a presence that’s coherent across everything you make and everything you are

Each engagement is shaped around your particular scope. The result is a built world, not advice about one.


A limited number of projects each season.


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The world needs our radical individuality.

It needs us to inhabit our truth, and let it be seen.