Casa Meridian
A 11-room hotel in Sibiu’s lower town gets a website that reads like a slow Sunday paper.
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Direct bookings +38%
Average session 3:42
Lighthouse 98 / 100 / 100 / 100
A studio for
considered
web design —
one composition
at a time.
We design and hand-build editorial-minded websites for businesses that prefer to be read carefully rather than scrolled past. No templates. No framework gravy. No filler.
Now booking · Q3 2026
Begin a project
47
projects shipped since 2021
3
people on the studio floor
0,8s
median first contentful paint
11
countries we have shipped to
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Specimens
Specimens
Selected work, arranged as a small catalogue.
A handful of recent projects — hotels, supplements, architecture, law, restaurants, publishing. Different sectors, the same considered way of working.
Norvika
A clean editorial e-commerce build for a Romanian supplement brand stocked across the EU.
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Conversion rate +52%
Cart abandonment −19%
0 framework dependencies
Studio Malachi
A working portfolio for an architecture studio with twenty years of unsorted archives.
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12 case studies migrated
Press inquiries +4×
Hand-edited CMS
Orbis Counsel
A serious site for a serious firm — restrained type, no stock photography, real partners.
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Average page load 0.7s
Mobile bounce −22%
WCAG AA pass
Grădina de Sare
A single-page site that lets a 28-seat restaurant turn down reservations politely.
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Reservation form CTR +61%
Single-page composition
Built in 2 weeks
Perimetru Press
A reading-first publisher site with Stripe-powered subscriptions and a beautiful archive.
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Subscribers ×3 in six months
Custom Stripe checkout
Long-form reading mode
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Practice
Practice
A small set of services, practised well.
We do six things. We do them carefully. The full list of capabilities, what each engagement looks like, and what it costs — on the next page.
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Editorial web design
Considered, art-directed websites that read like a publication and convert like a sales page.
Information architecture · Typographic systems · Art direction 02Brand systems for the web
Logos, palettes, type and tone — calibrated for screens first, print after.
Logo and wordmark refinement · Type pairing and scale · Color systems 03Hand-built development
PHP, vanilla JS, no framework gravy. Pages that load in under a second.
PHP / HTML / CSS / vanilla JS · Headless CMS integrations · Stripe and payments plumbing 04Motion direction
Interaction that earns its keep. Quiet where it should be, decisive where it counts.
Reveal and stagger systems · Scroll-driven sequences · Cursor and pointer states 05Studio hours, monthly
A standing retainer for clients who keep their site alive instead of frozen.
Content updates · A/B testing · New page templates 06Consultation and audits
A second pair of eyes on a stalled site, a stuck redesign, or a difficult brief.
Heuristic UX review · Performance audit · Brand consistency audit03
Voices
Voices
What our clients say, in their own words.
We collect testimonials by asking three questions, in writing, three months after launch. The answers are reproduced here without edits.
They wrote our site like it was an essay. Every paragraph earns its place. We have stopped apologising for our website at dinner parties.
I have commissioned three sites in eight years. This is the first one I am actually proud of. Lighthouse 98, and our cart abandonment is down nineteen points.
They asked us harder questions than our consultants did. The website is the smallest thing we got out of the project.
The studio works the way a small architecture practice works — slowly, with drawings, and then very quickly at the end. We would commission them again tomorrow.
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Begin
Begin
Have a brief, a budget, or a good question?
We reply to every message within two working days — with a proposal, a calendar invite, or a polite note explaining why we’re not the right studio for the project.