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Featured
Kestrel Labs
Brand site + product canvas
Design · Build · Motion
2026
✳Independent design studio
Est. 2019 / Worldwide
38 sites · 6yr avg retainer
Websites
that refuse
to blend in.
[ What we make ]
We design and build agency websites with a backbone: brutalist structure, editorial type, motion that earns its keep. No templates, no filler.
FIG.01 / canvas
live preview
38
Sites shipped
6yr
Avg. retainer
Kestrel Labs ✳
Northbeam ✳
Mono Coffee ✳
Atlas Type ✳
Vellum ✳
Driftwood ✳
Halcyon ✳
Selected work
A slice of recent builds. Each one shipped, each one still live.
Vellum
002
Editorial / Type house
2025
003
Driftwood
DTC commerce
Shopify / Headless
2025
38
Sites launched
5wk
Avg. build time
100%
Custom, never themed
4.9
Client rating / 5
What we do
Index / 01—04
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01
Brand & art direction
Identity systems, type pairing, the look and the rules that hold it together. We set the visual logic before a single screen gets built. -
02
Website design
Full-bleed layouts, editorial grids, hard-edged components. Every page composed by hand, prototyped, and pressure-tested across breakpoints. -
03
Engineering
Next.js builds, headless CMS, motion in code, not after-effects. Fast, accessible, and handed off clean so your team can own it. -
04
Motion & 3D
Scroll choreography, WebGL accents, micro-interactions with intent. Movement that guides the eye, never noise for its own sake.
The method
that ships.
Four phases, no surprises. You see the work at every gate.
/ 01
Discover
Audit, positioning, and a sharp brief. We figure out what the site has to do before we touch a pixel.
/ 02
Design
Art direction into high-fidelity screens. Reviewed live, iterated fast, no 40-slide decks.
/ 03
Build
Production code with motion baked in. Staged previews so you watch it come together.
/ 04
Ship
Launch, handoff docs, and a window of support. Then it is yours to run.