ABOUT VESTIBULE


Vestibule is a multi-disciplinary independent creative studio.

We’re the studio you didn’t know you knew. Quietly creating original works for almost two decades, we straddle a broad range of creative applications and outputs.

We bring together deep visual culture heritage and design experience, with progressive and daring uses of new technologies.

We work in an exploratory and research-driven way with new technologies, always finding new and often surprising ways to generate and execute ideas with our clients and collaborators. 

Our work is a continuous iteration of ideas, all with equal value, so we make no distinction between used and unused, sketches and full projects. In time, you’ll see a continuous stream of both on this site. All ideas have value (even for future ideas).

You’ll notice a distinct style and intention to our work. Its born of both a deep understanding of culture, but also from existing between cultures, worlds, physical and virtual realities.

We also utilise our many years of expetise to consult, give workshops and support education.
Deep Learning sculpture from The Red Earth Project.

NARRATIVE,CREATIVE STRATEGY, VISUAL DESIGN, PUBLICATIONS, BRAND STRATEGY & DESIGN, INSTALLATIONS, DIGITAL ART, FILM & MOTION • 


Team


Vestibule is founded by British-born Nigerian writer, artist, creative strategist and award-winning creative director, Michael Salu.

As a creative strategist and creative director, with strongly literary and scholarly underpinnings, he has developed ideas, campaigns and designs for many cultural organisations, institutions and brands, winning awards along the way.

He is also a writer and brings this narrative and research methods to multi-platform creative solutions. He is the author of Red Earth (Calamari Press, 2023), What Lies Beyond the Red Earth (Tangerine Press, 2024) and is the editor of Cybernetics, or Ghosts? (Subtext Books, 2024). His writing has also appeared in several literary journals, magazines, art and academic publications, including the Paris Review, Freeman’s Journal and Sleepingfish

He has conducted extensive research into technology's impact on culture, along with publishing books, he has published several essays and has given talks with organisations like 5x15 and The Royal College of Art.

As an artist, he has exhibited internationally and he also founded House of Thought (our sibling), an artistic research practice and creative consultancy focusing on bridging creative, critical thinking and technology and he is part of Planetary Portals, a research collective.
Animation
Writing
Mike
Founder & Creative Director
Miguel
Creative Business Strategy
Film
Michel
Design
Mikal
3D + new media 
Digital Director

Associates
We make most things in-house, but also work with a stellar cotire of collaborators for specific expertise when called for. Our work prides itself on being cross-platform in every sense. 
Partners
House of Thought
Salufilms
The Red Earth Project