A voice for nature

We are a creative studio helping planet-minded projects find their shape, voice and way into the world.

We partner up with organisations to tell powerful stories that move people to care, and inspire behaviour that protects the natural world.

Branding design for Rootsum.
Branding design for Rootsum.

Tools for change

  • We sit down with the people behind nature parks, conservation projects and planet-minded ideas to sharpen their mission, question the obvious bits and look for better ways forward. Together, we rethink products, services, stories and communication strategies through a regenerative lens. Not just “what works now?”, but what still makes sense when you zoom out.

    Future generations were unavailable for the meeting, so we try to represent them.

  • Some ideas are buried in reports. Others hide behind scientific jargon, policy documents or presentations nobody really wants to read.

    We dig them out.

    Through research, interviews and a lot of curious questions, we turn complex topics into stories people can understand, feel and remember. Whether it's a blog, newsletter, article or documentary, we help make important ideas accessible to the people they're meant to reach.

    Because a good idea only changes things when people actually get it.

  • We turn your mission into things people can see, read and remember.

    Logos, websites, campaigns, brochures, packaging, presentations, newsletters, exhibition panels. The visible stuff. The useful stuff. The stuff people actually meet before they decide whether to care.

    Logos, websites, campaigns, brochures, packaging, presentations, newsletters, exhibition panels. The useful things people meet before they decide whether to care.

    Good design matters. Annoyingly, the bad guys figured this out ages ago. So we help the good side show up properly too — with clearer words, sharper visuals and ideas that look as strong as they are.

Website, webshop for Rootsum, selling products and bugs to replace poison in private gardens.
Website, webshop for Rootsum, selling products and bugs to replace poison in private gardens.

Stories that move

Stories that move

Ancient Coral Kingdom

Standing in Geiranger and looking out over the water, it is easy to believe that all the grandeur is right there in front of you. But it turns out, the fjord has been keeping a
secret.

The logo of The West Norwegian Fjords, UNESCO world heritage.

Every garden counts

Rootsum sells tiny allies. Ladybugs, nematodes and clever alternatives to garden poison.

Their mission is to get chemicals out of private gardens — because biodiversity loss also happens between the roses, under the hedge and next to the trampoline.

Duckhood, a short film about how the world we’re born into can feel completely normal, even when it quietly took a wrong turn generations ago. And about two ducklings following their parents into whatever comes next.

Duckhood (in progress)

A short film about how the world we’re born into can feel completely normal, even when it quietly took a wrong turn generations ago. And about two ducklings following their parents into whatever comes next.

Let’s talk

Let’s have a conversation to see how we can work together as partners for positive impact.

Twyla Mergan and Wouter Vergote, founders of Noisy Napkin, a creative studio for the good side.

Origin story

Once Upon A Time

We, Wouter & Twyla, fell in love at design school in Brussels, Belgium — and spent the next 15 years building two small humans and a branding agency together.

The Napkin

The famous napkin, with our next 'five year plan', pinned on the magnet board, alongside our weekly plans.

One cosy, misty evening, we doodled our next five-year plan on a napkin. Like most good ideas, it started vague, fragile and slightly unreasonable.

We felt a growing pull to use our skills for something more urgent: protecting the planet our small humans rely on. So we packed up, moved to Norway, and now work between the fjords, mountains and stories we want to protect.

More trees!

Twyla Mergan and Wouter Vergote, founders of Noisy Napkin, a creative studio for the good side, standing above the fjords in Geiranger, Norway.

With our branding and design background, creative network and trusted partners, we help organisations shape, explain and bring planet-minded ideas into the world.

We help good ideas get off the napkin and into the world.

Good company

A few organisations we were lucky enough to help make a little louder.

Logo of 'The West Norwegian Fjords', UNESCO world heritage.
Logo WWF
Logo Repair & Share
Logo UNESCO
Logo Norges Verdenarv, client of Noisy Napkin.
Logo of Fjord Cowork, client of Noisy Napkin