Creative & media agency — est. 2014

We build brands
that cut through

Strategy, film and performance media for companies who refuse to blend in. One team, from the first idea to the last impression.

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Selected work

Campaigns people actually remember.

Our story

Started in a room too small for the ambition.

2014. London. Three people, one laptop that overheated by lunch, and a conviction that most advertising was forgettable by design — safe, tested, forgotten by Tuesday. We built the studio on the opposite bet: work loud enough to remember, sharp enough to convert, honest enough to survive contact with a real audience.

A decade later, that bet has paid for itself many times over. We've shipped campaigns across three continents, built brand worlds from nothing, and turned “nobody's heard of them” into “everyone's talking about them” more times than we can count on one hand. The team grew. The ambition didn't shrink.

What hasn't changed: no committees between the idea and the work. No account layers diluting the vision by the fifth meeting. Just a small, senior team that still treats every brief like it's the one that has to be unforgettable — because it is.

This is Nova Signal. We don't do quiet.

What we do

Four disciplines, one room.

Brand strategy

Positioning, narrative and identity systems built to hold up for a decade, not a quarter.

Film & content

In-house direction, production and post — from hero films to 400 cutdowns in a week.

Performance media

Paid social, search and OOH planned as one system, optimised against real revenue.

Experiences

Launches, installations and stage design that make an audience stop scrolling in real life.

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Campaigns shipped

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People reached

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Awards on the shelf

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Clients who re-sign

The people behind the work

Meet the studio.

A small senior team. No account layers, no junior hand-offs.

Isabelle Marchetti — Executive Creative Director

Isabelle Marchetti

Executive Creative Director

Fifteen years turning brand ambition into work people actually remember.

  • Brand Platforms
  • Art Direction
  • Campaign Ideas

Previously led creative on global launches across fashion and fintech. Isabelle sets the creative bar on every engagement and stays hands-on from first territory to final grade.

Mei Lin Cho — Head of Strategy

Mei Lin Cho

Head of Strategy

Finds the sharp, uncomfortable truth that makes a campaign impossible to ignore.

  • Positioning
  • Audience Insight
  • Go-to-Market

Mei builds the strategic spine behind the work — research, category tension, and messaging architecture — then stays in the room while it gets made, so the idea never drifts from the thinking.

Daniel Reyes — Head of Production

Daniel Reyes

Head of Production

Makes ambitious ideas land on time, on budget, and without compromise.

  • Film & Motion
  • Post Supervision
  • Studio Ops

From single-day studio shoots to multi-market productions, Daniel owns the schedule, the crew and the craft — protecting the idea through every practical constraint it meets.

Clients
We didn't just get better design — we got a waiting line around the block. They understood our brand better than we did.

Maya Torres

Founder, Crumb & Co.

Why us

A studio of 24,
no middle layer.

We stayed small on purpose. It's the only way to keep the work sharp and the answers honest.

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Senior people only

The team in the pitch is the team on the work. No hand-off to juniors after signature.

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Made in-house

Strategists, directors, editors and media buyers on one floor. Fewer vendors, faster decisions.

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Measured on outcomes

We report on pipeline and revenue, not impressions. Every retainer has a number attached.