about the studio
Two careers, one studio.
Andrea Lehmann
Maria P. Velásquez
Andrea Lehmann and Maria P. Velásquez have spent their careers inside the full spectrum of brand building: from global strategy to campaign execution, from creative direction to communications.
Trained where the standards are unforgiving, they’ve learned what separates brands that are seen from those that are simply present. Between them, they have touched every corner of what makes a brand work.
The Olive is new. The experience behind it is not.
We’re bringing everything we’ve learned inside the industry’s best rooms into a studio built for the way brands need to show up today: culturally fluent, strategically sharp, and impossible to ignore.
Estée Lauder Companies
Harper’s Bazaar
All We Wear Group
selected work
our story
It all starts with an olive
The clink of an olive stick against two empty martini glasses. That’s how Mari and I came up with what became one of the best campaigns I ever made for a luxury brand.
That night I discovered Mari’s talent: she saw, through her eyes, what I could only put into words. We see life very differently, and understand it exactly the same.
The Olive is what happens when we get together. A studio for people with a beautiful way of seeing things, and a reason to share it.
If you’re reading this, you’re probably one of them.
Andrea