About
My Story
I started The Clearly Collective as a personal project: meaningful gifts for my friends that felt elevated, pieces they would want to wear, beyond logos.
Trained as an architect, I believe it is the meaning of our experiences, and the architecture of the places where those memories are made, that stays with us.
Olivia Cleary · Founder & Creative Director
- 2020UVA School of Architecture
- 2020Architect in New York
- 2022Founded The Clearly Collective
- 2024Full time, and Darden incubator
- 2025Tory Burch Fellow
- 2026Forbes 30 Under 30, Art & Style
The process
Branded Art
I don’t think of this as corporate gifting. The closest name for it is branded art: pieces that are beautiful for their own sake, with meaning woven through them.
It starts like architecture
Every design follows the process I learned as an architect. I study the place, its history and its buildings before anything is drawn.
A site visit
Whenever I can, I visit in person. Walking a campus, a hotel or a club is how I find the details that make a design feel like home to the people who know it.
Truly bespoke
I get to know each client and their story, so every piece is made for them alone, and made to be kept long after the moment it marks.
Explore
Find Your Place
Shop designs drawn from college towns, coastlines and cities, or work with the studio on something entirely your own.