Ellen & Michelle
The class Manifesto
We believe scrappiness and willingness shape the work more than the “right” tools ever can.
We believe we’re only new once, but we can remain curious forever.
We believe your weird, esoteric proclivities belong inside your business, not hidden beneath it.
We believe your business should feel like a home: lived-in, imperfect, and full of spirit.
We believe that when your work empowers others, you’re doing something right.
We believe creativity is an endless well, not a commodity to be managed, but a garden to be tended.
We believe structures are just scaffolding for focused play.
We believe the unpredictability of the human hand is what makes something worthwhile.
We believe people hold multitudes and that contradiction is where the gold lives.
we believe in cracking open the myth of “expertise.”
We believe in No gates, no gurus: just a circle of hands, passing the torch, keeping the fire going.
We believe in pulling the threads of history and weaving them into what’s next.
We believe in work that remembers it’s made for chaotic, real humans.
And we believe that mastery is overrated.
Stay raw. Stay curious. Keep breaking your own mold.
Nature began as an experiment between kindred designers asking the same question: how do we build brands that actually feel alive? What started as shared curiosity and late-night ideas grew into a studio shaped by intuition, collaboration, and the belief that good design has a pulse.
Us:
Michelle founded Romy Collective in 2016. Her practice is rooted in weaving narrative, symbolism, and sensory detail into visual form. Ellen draws on a multidisciplinary background in music business and fine art, which she later expanded through self-taught design to found Low Tide in 2020. Together, their blend of creative and strategic experience shapes a practice that explores how brands move through culture and communication, bringing depth and dimension to the studio’s work.
Us:
Michelle founded Romy Collective in 2016. Her practice is rooted in weaving narrative, symbolism, and sensory detail into visual form. Ellen draws on a multidisciplinary background in music business and fine art, which she later expanded through self-taught design to found Low Tide in 2020. Together, their blend of creative and strategic experience shapes a practice that explores how brands move through culture and communication, bringing depth and dimension to the studio’s work.
Want to know more?
Episode 1 The Birth of Nature on our podcast,
Landline, is where we talk about us and how Nature came about.