is a brand and digital design studio based in Prague, working with companies across Europe. We design brand identities and websites — strategy through code — for businesses ready to look the way they actually operate.

is a brand and digital design studio based in Prague, working with companies across Europe. We design brand identities and websites — strategy through code — for businesses ready to look the way they actually operate.

is a brand and digital design studio based in Prague, working with companies across Europe. We design brand identities and websites — strategy through code — for businesses ready to look the way they actually operate.

A studio built on conviction.
Run on curiosity.

Pavel Rat and Matt Slow, co-founders of SLOWRAT design studio in Prague

← Pavel Rat

We rarely fight in life.
We sometimes fight about kerning.

Matt Slow →

The Studio

We're not your agency.
We're closer than that.

SLOWRAT is led by Matt and Pavel — designers, art directors, and partners who spent years inside a larger creative agency before starting the studio together. We handle brand strategy, identity, web design, and front-end development across both of us, without internal handoffs. What we present is what we build. When a project asks for more, we bring in collaborators we've worked with for years.

SLOWRAT is led by Matt and Pavel — designers, art directors, and partners who spent years inside a larger creative agency before starting the studio together. We handle brand strategy, identity, web design, and front-end development across both of us, without internal handoffs. What we present is what we build. When a project asks for more, we bring in collaborators we've worked with for years.

SLOWRAT is led by Matt and Pavel — designers, art directors, and partners who spent years inside a larger creative agency before starting the studio together. We handle brand strategy, identity, web design, and front-end development across both of us, without internal handoffs. What we present is what we build. When a project asks for more, we bring in collaborators we've worked with for years.

SLOWRAT is led by Matt and Pavel — designers, art directors, and partners who spent years inside a larger creative agency before starting the studio together. We handle brand strategy, identity, web design, and front-end development across both of us, without internal handoffs. What we present is what we build. When a project asks for more, we bring in collaborators we've worked with for years.

Outside the studio

Design is part of culture.
Not the centre of it.

Mat grows orchids. Pavel reads fantasy. We both train CrossFit. We walk to the parks most afternoons, because the answer to a stuck design problem is rarely on the screen. None of it is on-brand. All of it is the brand.

Mat grows orchids. Pavel reads fantasy. We both train CrossFit. We walk to the parks most afternoons, because the answer to a stuck design problem is rarely on the screen. None of it is on-brand. All of it is the brand.

Mat grows orchids. Pavel reads fantasy. We both train CrossFit. We walk to the parks most afternoons, because the answer to a stuck design problem is rarely on the screen. None of it is on-brand. All of it is the brand.

James Islington — A Strength of a Few

Half Man

Rain World & Hollow Knight: Silksong

Matt Slow and Pavel Rat outdoors
Matt Slow in Prague's botanical garden during autumn
Matt Slow and Pavel Rat in Gdańsk, eating local pączki donuts
Matt Slow with a tropical plant from his houseplant collection
Pavel Rat holding a recently finished book
Matt Slow and Pavel Rat showing wedding rings at Dynjandi waterfall, Iceland
Szymek and Antek, the studio cats
Pavel Rat working from the SLOWRAT studio in Vinohrady, Prague

Recognition

2025

Awwwards Honorable Mention

adammirek.pl

2025

Awwwards Honorable Mention

adammirek.pl

2025

Golden Semicolon – Bronze

Behind the Wall App (with Little Greta)

Golden Semicolon logo

2025

Golden Semicolon – Bronze

Behind the Wall App (with Little Greta)

2022

Awwwards Honorable Mention

ikony.tv

2022

Awwwards Honorable Mention

ikony.tv

2022

Slovak Design Award

ikony.tv

Slovak Design Award logo

2022

Slovak Design Award

ikony.tv

2021

Awwwards Honorable Mention

gabrielawarzycka.com

2021

Awwwards Honorable Mention

gabrielawarzycka.com

2021

Semplice Best of the Year Award

gabrielawarzycka.com

Semplice logo

2021

Semplice Best of the Year Award

gabrielawarzycka.com

2019

German Design Award

Jarošovský pivovar (with Little Greta)

German Design Award logo

2019

German Design Award

Jarošovský pivovar (with Little Greta)

2018

Red Dot Award

Jarošovský pivovar (with Little Greta)

Red Dot Award logo

2018

Red Dot Award

Jarošovský pivovar (with Little Greta)

2018

Silver A' Design Award

Jarošovský pivovar (with Little Greta)

A'Design logo

2018

Silver A' Design Award

Jarošovský pivovar (with Little Greta)

2018

Czech International Student Design Award

Vyraj mobile game

Czech International Student Design Award logo

2018

Czech International Student Design Award

Vyraj mobile game

2016

Silver A' Design Award

Pyeniny mobile app

A'Design Award logo

2016

Silver A' Design Award

Pyeniny mobile app

2016

World Beer Award: Design Gold

Jarošovský pivovar (with Little Greta)

World Beer Awards logo

2016

World Beer Award: Design Gold

Jarošovský pivovar (with Little Greta)

2015

Winner of Faro International Videomapping Festival

Genesis

Faro International Videomapping Festival logo

2015

Winner of Faro International Videomapping Festival

Genesis

2015

Finalist of Typomania Festival

Genesis

Typomania logo

2015

Finalist of Typomania Festival

Genesis

2013

Finalist of Graduation Projects

Pyeniny mobile app

Graduation Projects logo

2013

Finalist of Graduation Projects

Pyeniny mobile app