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Parafin
A brand system for Parafin, including strategy, visual identity, art direction, and a website.
Harvey
Bringing motion, clarity, and adaptability to a fast-moving legal AI brand.
Arena
Brand, Campaign and Product Design for Arena AI
neoNutritions
A website for neoNutritions, a wellness brand built on traditional ingredients and modern science.
We’re fluent in 15+ programming languages, actively managing fleets of servers.
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Who we are
A small team of design-led developers, taking on a handful of projects a year.

Sun Day

500+ events in 49 states organized through sunday.earth

Alison Roman

Alison Roman moved her newsletter and recipe archive off Substack onto a unified self-hosted home

Cosmos

$15M Series A co-led by Shine Capital and Matrix Partners, with GV, Accel and Squarespace's Anthony Casalena

A person holding a Light Phone III in both hands, framing a photo with its rear camera.

Light Three

TIME's Best Inventions of 2025 recognition for the Light Phone III

Modern Life
Brand, art direction, web, and digital product design for Modern Life, an insurance agency for the future.
Stripe Apps
Brand design, art direction, campaign imagery, and product design for a financial infrastructure platform for internet businesses.
Homebound
Brand and Website for the custom homebuilding company.
Pratt School of Architecture
Website and visual identity for Pratt School of Architecture, spanning its diverse range of programs.
Love enters through the eyes. Our team hails from design, fashion, music and art backgrounds, applying their sophisticated taste to our work.
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Client success
Real numbers from real projects, where our craft moved the business needle.

Salt & Stone subway station billboard featuring a person from behind holding a deodorant in afternoon light.

Our team specializes in building custom eCommerce experiences with Shopify and more.

Our work in Custom eCommerce

WorkMade
An early-stage financial app for freelancers and independent professionals.
Gnosis Chain
Visual identity system for Gnosis Chain, an Ethereum-compatible blockchain by Gnosis.
Aplós
A digital design system and e-commerce site for a new kind of non-alcoholic beverage.
Our process is lean and nimble, optimized for shipping high grade work quickly, with precision.
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Family Intelligence: Speculative Research on Local LLMs
Speculative research on local LLMs as a way to bring family memories back home, free from cloud dependencies. From USB Club and garden3d in partnership with the Mozilla Foundation.
Where the flower grows
Air gapped intelligence, local LLMs, and the case for private AI
Oh, to Be Known By My Computer!
A pattern for designing intelligent products

BBG Ventures
Branding and website design for a female-led venture fund investing in a new generation of founders.
Gnosis
Inspired by their mission to create decentralized technology for all, we crafted a new brand language for Gnosis that reflects the ethos of the early web.
Index
We designed a digital platform to support marketing and registration for programs produced by and for the creative community.
How we think
Five principles that shape how we hire, build, and decide what's worth shipping.

Cream-toned hero of Alison Roman’s site: ‘The New Cookbook’ title beside her green-covered book ‘Something from Nothing’, set over a soft-focus food spread.

What really stood out was their ability to translate our very ‘non-technical’ ideas into solutions that balanced both function and beauty. They didn’t just execute, they interpreted, refined, and elevated.

Mirror
We partnered with Mirror to design and scale their premium fitness platform, transforming the home workout experience.
Geneva
A website and brand identity for Geneva, a chat app centered around connecting communities wherever they are.
Fishbird
Brand and website for anti-consultancy Fishbird.
The best results stem from a diversity of perspectives and a tight feedback loop.
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Can You Vibe-Code Learning?
A Discussion on Teaching Creative Technology in the Age of AI
Off Brain
Networked empathy, the exocortex, and our next step in human spirituality
Managing is a Maker’s Skill
How we built a better creative studio by becoming our own producers.

Mozilla
Website for the Mozilla and Firefox brand.
Colophon
An e-commerce platform that doubles as a creative tool for a growing UK type foundry, rebuilding how designers buy and licence type.
Parsons
Website, strategy, and custom typeface for the MPS in communication design.
Testimonials
Voices from the founders, operators, and creative directors we ship alongside.

We're not a "Traditional Agency™"
How we buck agency norms to build better products than the status quo
Expansive Brands
How garden3d centers humanity when building brands.
In Defense of Story Points
Story points often get a bad rap, but with the right approach, they’re a powerful tool for managing expectations. Here’s how our development team at Sanctuary Computer uses them effectively.