The small click a knob makes when it lands on a setting.
de·tent
/dɪˈtɛnt/
Noun · Mechanics
Studio
Founded
2019
Team
Two designers
Based in
Rotterdam, NL
Position
51.92 N, 4.48 E
The name
We named the studio after that click. Detent is a two-person design studio in Rotterdam working on packaging, products and the identities printed on them.
Most of our clients make physical things: a bottler, record labels, a pedal maker, a film lab, a radio station. Every project gets a physical mock-up in the first week, printed, cut or 3D printed, so feedback is about something you can pick up.
The studio
Maashaven, Rotterdam
Photo: Noor Vlasveld
Team
Two designers, one bench.
What we make.
Two benches
Packaging and product
Identity and type
How we work
Week to the
first mock-up
01
Week one
A mock-up in week one
We print, cut or 3D print the first idea, so the first round of feedback is about something you can hold.
Projects a
year, at most
02
All year
Four to six projects a year
Small on purpose. You work with the two people who design your project, from the first sketch to the print run.
Places we
test it in
03
Before print
Tested where it lives
On a shelf, in a hand, under shop lights and on a phone, before anything goes to print.
Tools
On screen and on the bench
Clients
Cast, not drawn
Turning since 2019
The D on every box, card and screen started as a block of concrete on our bench. When we need it somewhere new, we scan it again.
© 2026 Detent
Independent design studio
