about us
A principal-led practice
A small practice for consequential complexity.
Argot Nots is a creative strategy and information-design consultancy for knowledge-rich organizations navigating change. We help leaders interpret complexity, align people around what matters, and give that direction a coherent public form.
WE ARE MOST USEFUL WHEN
The organization or the world around it has changed.
The way people explain it has not kept pace.
Different audiences encounter different versions.
A consequential decision or transformation is approaching.
Consultancy first. Design capable.
Clients are not buying a menu of deliverables. They are buying judgment: the ability to find the organizing idea, build shared direction, and carry that thinking into something people can actually use.
01
Interpret complexity
Research, listening, and critical inquiry surface the condition beneath the presenting request.
02
Build shared direction
Facilitation, narrative, and systems thinking help stakeholders agree on what matters.
03
Carry thinking into form
Identity, information architecture, and digital experience make the strategy visible and usable.
Choose the question you want answered.
Learn where the practice came from, who joins the work, what we help solve, and how an engagement moves.
Why Argot Nots
Our Story
How a collaboration between educators and artists became a practice built around understanding.
Who you work with
Team + Collaborators
Meet the principals and the trusted specialists who join when the work calls for them.
What we help solve
Services
Explore three connected practices spanning positioning, information, identity, and implementation.
How the work moves
Approach
See how Observe → Interpret → Structure → Express → Test creates a visible line of reasoning.
The practice in motion
Research + Listening
Models + Metaphors
Systems + Experiences
A distinctive combination
Different disciplines. One integrated way of seeing.
Argot Nots brings together forms of inquiry and making that are often separated, using each to move from close observation to coherent systems and experiences.
Art + Sculpture
Structure, hierarchy, material, relationship, and the way parts create a whole.
TEACHING
Facilitation, critique, shared language, and the ability to make difficult ideas enterable.
DOCTORAL INQUIRY
Information design, metaphor, interfaces, and the systems that shape understanding and action.
EXPERTISE IS AN ASSET. COMPLEXITY SHOULD NOT BE A LIABILITY.
Bring us the complicated part.
We will help you find the structure, language, and experience it needs.
A useful place to begin
What has changed?
What no longer makes sense?
What decision is approaching?