Music
To
Your
Eyes
Wade and Leta Make
Music to Your Eyes
Wade and Leta make music for your eyes. Their studio combines purposeful eclecticism and performative design to create satisfying and emotional visuals ranging from conventional identities to colorfully charged compositions utilizing any abilities. Their work lives between many worlds and blurs the lines of disciplines and industries; some would call this "multi-disciplinary," but they would tell you that they don’t think about work in disciples. They take on any challenge that is new with the same vigor as an anime hero heading out on a quest. Their practice is about exploration and they believe that work and life are intertwined, especially since they live and work together all day every day. They love anime, gaming and not looking at emails, but please email since we don't have a studio phone.
They work between New York and Tokyo, but you can always find them on the internet!
Leta Sobierajski
Leta Sobierajski (b. 1988) is a New Yorker, but as you can tell from her almost 300-letter last name, she is also Polish. Her first love was anime and the world of Final Fantasy 7. As a child of the forest, Leta grew up with 1.2KB/s dial up internet and so downloading a song was an all day activity. While waiting for said song, she would spend the wee hours of the morning writing stories on fantasy RPG forums. Clearly, she is very patient. In 2024, she set a goal to run 50 miles a month and is sticking to it. She can be extremely obsessive with details when not brewing tea to fuel her ideas.
Here are some of her favorite things:
Anime:
Neon Genesis Evangelion
Manga: Slam Dunk
Game: Final Fantasy 7
Building: Aoyama Technical College by Makoto Sei Watanabe
Color:
Chartreuse
Movie: The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Food: Shirako or rice with egg and natto
Band: No bands—only techno
Wade Jeffree
Wade Jeffree (b. 1987) is an Australian artist who left to have a go at making something of it in New York City. When he arrived, he met Leta and never looked back. He is a lover of a perfectly extracted espresso and a collector of books written in languages he can't read (yet!). He is serious about what he does, but outside of that he is not very serious—just ask Leta. Like a Labrador, he doesn’t know when to stop eating. He is obsessed with Sumo and is a UAP and alien nerd.
Here are some of his favorite things:
Anime:
Hunter x Hunter
Anime character:
Kazuma Kuwabara from YuYu Hakusho
Manga: Slam Dunk
Game: Death Stranding
Building: Aoyama Technical College by Makoto Sei Watanabe
Color:
Green
Movie: The Matrix
Book: Southern Reach Trilogy
Food: Juwari Soba
Band: Yellow Magic Orchestra
PRESS
Design Milk
It’s All About Falling Into Place at Any Age When Visiting This Tokyo Exhibition
Hypebeast
CASETiFY Champions Sustainability With New Art Installations Across the Globe
Dezeen
Casetify launches global installations made out of recycled phone cases
ARToVILLA (JP)
Wade and Leta and Masaru Suzuki talk about the power of colorful art to bring a new perspective to our lives
sabukaru (JP)
About Colors and Shapes - sabukaru Meets Wade and Leta
@DESIGN
How we designed Falling Into Place
The Fox is Black (USA/ES)
Wade and Leta Take Us Behind-the-Scenes of A24’s “Scrounging”
parametric-architecture.com (TR/USA)
Toyota x Wade and Leta collaborated on creating a surreal sculptural symphony
Ginza Magazine (JP)
An Art Park Appears on the Rooftop of “Ginza Six” with a Vivid Installation by Wade and Leta
Champ Magazine (UK/JP)
Wade and Leta: In New York, the Dynamic Duo Continue to Reach Greater Heights
Adobe (USA)
Make it Like Memphis
Design Milk (USA)
Design Milk: Wade and Leta on Designing Bigger and Brighter
Elephant Magazine (UK)
Leta Sobierajski and Wade Jeffree: Alchemy & Cult Psychology
Forward Festival (DE)
Explore the World of Color with Wade and Leta
Gestalten (DE)
How Wade and Leta Tell Scented Stories
New York Times Style Magazine (USA)
A Photographic—and Romantic—Duo Creates Double Self Portraits With a Sense of Humor
New Sphere (JP)
Interview with Artist Unit Wade and Leta
Exhibitions
2024 Monument to Movement
Singapore
2024 Moon Art Night Festival
Tokyo, Japan
2024 Big Bang!
Yes! Art Festival
Hangzhou, China
2024 Falling Into Place
Tokyo, Japan
2024 Collapsed Columns
Youth&Upward Group Exhibition
Jieli, Qingdao
2023 Big Bang
E03 Gallery
798 Arts District, Beijing, China
2024 E03 Group Show
Yes! Art Festival
Beijing (and traveling to Chengdu)
2023 Now You See Me,
Principal Place
London, United Kingdom
2021 Healing From Another World
Showfields
Miami, USA
2020 Music To Your Eyes
Calm and Punk Gallery
Tokyo, Japan
2019 Seaport Seascapes
New York City Seaport District
New York, USA
2019 A Party for All
A/D/O
New York, USA
2017 Typography’s Greatest Sporting Moments
XXIX Gallery
New York, USA
2015 Optically Unconscious
New York, USA
CLIENTS
A24
A/D/O by Mini
Adobe
Affirm
AIGA
Airbnb
Arizona Iced Tea
Atelier Cologne
Away
Bloomberg Businessweek
BMW/Mini
Bonnaroo Music Festival
Brizo
Cashapp
Comme Des Garçons
CASETiFY
D.S. & Durga
DOTS
Facebook
GAS As Interface Japan
GE
Ghostly International Records
Ginza Six
Google
Gucci
Herman Miller
Hoegaarden
Howard Hughes Group
IBM
Instagram
Kaibosh Eyewear
Kiehl’s
LEGO
Omotesando Hills Japan
Refinery 29
Renault
Riposte Magazine
ROW DTLA
Samsung
Sense of Place / Urban Research Japan
SK-II
Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazine
Tate Modern Britain
Taubmans Paint
The Designers Foundry
The New York Times
Toyota
Thinx
Uniqlo Japan
SPEAKING
2024 Designyatra
Goa, India
2022 Semi Permanent
Wellington, New Zealand
2022 Forward Festival
Berlin, Germany
2022 Alaska Design Forum
Alaska
2021 OFFF Moscow
Online
2021 OFFF Barcelona
Online
2020 OFFF Sevilla
Online
2020 DesignThinkers Toronto
Online
2020 Adobe Max
Online
2020 Awwwards
Tokyo, Japan
2019 Promax Asia
Singapore
2019 Brief Festival
Madrid, Spain
2019 CAMP
Calgary, Canada
2019 Design Indaba
Cape Town, South Africa
2018 Us By Night
Antwerp, Belgium
2018 Awwwards
New York, New York
2018 Design Thinkers
Toronto, Canada
2018 OFFF Vienna
Vienna, Austria
2018 Grafill Oslo
Oslo, Norway
2018 By Design Conference
Bratislava, Slovakia
2018 AIGA Colorado
Denver, Colorado
2017 Us By Night
Antwerp, Belgium
2017 AIGA Eye on Design Conference
Minnesota, USA
2017 4GN
Bogotá, Colombia
2017 AGDA Australian Tour - Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Brisbane, Tasmania, Australia
2017 Hyperakt Lunch Talks
Brooklyn, New York
2017 The Next Web Conference
Amsterdam, Netherlands
2017 Element Talks
Warsaw, Poland
2017 OFFF Conference
Barcelona, Spain
2017 LadFest
Lima, Peru
2016 Dynamic MTL
Montreal, Canada
2016 AIGA MN Design Camp
Minnesota, USA
2016 Likeminds Conference
Beacon, New York
2016 Creative Mornings
Melbourne, Australia
2016 Hofstra University
New York, USA
2015 Pratt Institute
New York, USA
2015 Adherente Festival
Guatemala City
2015 Type Directors Club
New York, USA