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Sun Day
A participatory tool and digital experience for a sun-powered future: Drawing thousands into a movement for climate action.
Presq
A bespoke shopping experience for a cutting edge approach to product development and manufacturing.
Parafin
A brand system for Parafin, including strategy, visual identity, art direction, and a website.
Brooklyn Museum
A digital platform that connects, contextualizes, and elevates every corner of the museum.
We’re fluent in 15+ programming languages, actively managing fleets of servers.
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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

Figma Typography
Web and social design for Figma to announce the launch of the product’s new variable fonts feature.
Harvey
Bringing motion, clarity, and adaptability to a fast-moving legal AI brand.
Williamstown Theatre Festival
A digital stage for the next act of an iconic festival.
Thea
App and website design for Thea, an AI-powered platform that analyzes a user’s voice to detect real-time emotion and delivers music to either deepen the feeling or guide them toward equilibrium.
Who we are
A small team of design-led developers, taking on a handful of projects a year.
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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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

Mac Miller: Swimming
A website to celebrate the fifth anniversary of Mac Miller’s 2018 album, Swimming.
Mill
Technical architecture and IoT product development revolutionizing the future of food waste.
Loupe This
A custom-built, real-time auction engine and online community for luxury watch enthusiasts and collectors.
Client success
Real numbers from real projects, where our craft moved the business needle.

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

Hinge
Content migration and feature development for the Hinge marketing site.
Youswim
A fluid ecommerce platform for a radically flexible swimsuit brand.
neoNutritions
A website for neoNutritions, a wellness brand built on traditional ingredients and modern science.
Our process is lean and nimble, optimized for shipping high grade work quickly, with precision.
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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.

Magic Leap
Improving the editor experience with a new CMS for the Magic Leap marketing site.
Modern Life
Brand, art direction, web, and digital product design for Modern Life, an insurance agency for the future.
Homebound
Brand and Website for the custom homebuilding company.
How we think
Five principles that shape how we hire, build, and decide what's worth shipping.

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.

Baggu Custom
A website to show and order the variety of ways to customize BAGGU products.
Firefly
An adaptive marketing site for a modern approach to comprehensive healthcare.
Pratt School of Architecture
Website and visual identity for Pratt School of Architecture, spanning its diverse range of programs.
The best results stem from a diversity of perspectives and a tight feedback loop.
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A person in a sand-colored, cone-shaped headwrap walking along the salt-crusted shore of the Dead Sea at dusk.

We create artful, uncommon experiences that express the unique positioning and business models of the brands we work with.

Our work in Lifestyle

Swell
A documentation site for a company pioneering the future of headless ecommerce.
Air Company
Content strategy, art direction, campaign imagery, and website design for a company that turns CO₂ into consumer goods.
Aplós
A digital design system and e-commerce site for a new kind of non-alcoholic beverage.
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.