Nerves Agency

Nerves is a creative agency based in Zurich, Switzerland, with a digital focus. According to its website, it has been helping brands and companies develop since 2009, working for local organisations, companies and large international corporations. Its four service areas are strategy, design, branding and digital.

The agency presents its core strength as bringing design, communication and technology together, so that a concept can be carried through to its final realisation by the same people. It operates as a service-driven studio led by three partners: Raphael Krastev as Creative Director and Founding Partner, Dario Hofstetter as Art Director, and Steffen Schietinger, who leads strategy and consulting. The site is available in English and German, and it documents studio life, events and project updates in a journal section.

• Strategy: consulting and positioning work
• Design: visual communication, including invitation cards and printed material
• Branding: visual identities for companies and organisations
• Digital: websites, software and digital products
• Design systems: a design system built for a financial reporting product

One project featured on the site is a reporting framework built with bmpi, a Swiss financial reporting provider. Nerves developed the reporting software together with a design system, which the page says has been integrated at Credit Suisse, UBS, Pax and several other large players and generates more than 50,000 reports a month. Another featured job is the invitation card for the general meeting of the Swiss Graphic Designers Association (SGV), whose 2025 topic was design and AI. A testimonial from Tobias Steger, PR and Communications Lead at Microsoft Switzerland, praises the team for both conception and design and for the way ideas are carried out.

Its website also lists a partner roll of 21 names, including Amadeus Waltenspühl, Apoint Film, Bühler & Bühler, Hitch Design and Real Time Society.