published projects
Websites, identities and a few long-running programmes. Everything here launched.
Where would you like to start?
See the work28 published projectsEvery one launched, with the full image set and the decisions behind it.Not sure yetTwo-minute diagnosticSeven questions, an honest read. Sometimes the answer is not to start a project.Scope and budgetSize the projectFive questions that tell you whether this is a six-week piece of work or a six-month one.Ready to talkDescribe the situationNo brief needed. Say what changed and what is not working.
Where to start
Which of these is closest to your situation?
Choose the closest one to see comparable projects, what that kind of work usually involves and roughly what it costs.
3 comparable projects
Usually this engagement
Website Design
A website that answers the questions your buyers actually have.
- Scope
- From a straight redesign to a site serving several different audiences
- Timeline
- Usually 10 to 16 weeks
Scoped and priced per project
Take this with you
A short summary of where this would begin, for the people who have to agree to it.
Portfolio
Twenty-eight published projects across brand identities, large websites, publishing platforms and several long-running programmes.
Crescent Shopping Centre / XOCEAN / SES / SSPC / Thomond Park
written up in detail
The situation the client came with, the decisions we made, and what shipped.
sectors covered
Technology, professional services, cleantech, property, hospitality and the nonprofit sector.
senior-led
Dave Curtin leads every project from the first conversation through to launch.
Featured work
Website DesignCrescent Shopping Centre
All 28 projectsTwo audiences
We design for you, and for the person on the other end.
Whoever has to use the thing we build is the person the structure gets tested against. Choose your world and that gets specific.
The site describes the organisation rather than answering the question people arrived with.
You need it to explain what you actually do, stand up to comparison, and turn interest into an enquiry worth having — without needing us every time it changes.
someone on a phone, part-way through something else, with one question
A clear answer, an obvious next step, and nothing in the way of either.
How we help
Six services, six sectors. Pick the lens that fits.
01Website Design
For companies whose website no longer matches what they sell or who they sell it to.
02Branding
For companies whose identity was designed for a smaller or different version of the business.
03Brand + Website
One programme covering the identity and the website, run by one person.
04Direction Sprint
A short piece of paid work to establish what the real problem is.
05Web Development & CMS
Building and launching a site, with a CMS your team can run day to day.
06Search, Conversion & Growth
Improving how you get found, and what happens after someone lands.
Our process
Five stages. Nothing is designed until the structure is agreed, which is the step most projects skip and later pay for.
- 01
Discovery
Interviews with you and with the people who sell or deliver day to day. This is also where we look at whatever analytics and enquiry data exists.
- 02
Structure and strategy
You get a written view of who the site is for, what it needs to say and how it is organised. Nothing gets designed until that is agreed.
- 03
Design and writing
Pages are designed and written at the same time. You review real pages with real copy rather than mood boards, which makes the feedback far more useful.
- 04
Build and launch
Development, testing across devices and assistive technology, content migration and launch. Your team gets training before handover, not a PDF afterwards.
- 05
After launch
A few weeks of monitoring once real traffic arrives, then a short written view of what is worth changing next. Some clients stop here and some carry on monthly.
Our studio
An Irish studio
Senior thinking. Direct collaboration.
Work directly with experienced strategists, designers and developers who care about the business as much as the visible interface.
- Diagnosis
- Founder-led
- Delivery
- Specialist-supported
- Review
- Senior throughout
Straight answers
Questions people ask before they get in touch.
If the answer you need is not here, describe the situation and you will get a written reply rather than a brochure.
Ask about your projectStill weighing it up?
The two-minute diagnostic gives an honest read on whether you need a project at all, and the estimator sizes it in weeks. Neither asks for your email.
Take the diagnosticEnough varies between projects that a single figure would be misleading, so we do not publish one. What drives it is the number of pages that need writing, whether the brand needs work before the site can be designed, whether content is migrating from an existing site, and how much you want to be able to change yourself afterwards. The estimator on this site sizes a project in weeks from those answers, and a firm number follows one conversation rather than a form.
Most projects here run between six and twelve weeks from first conversation to launch. The variable is rarely design time. It is how quickly decisions get made on your side and how much content already exists. A project where the copy has to be written from scratch takes longer than one where it needs editing, and that is worth knowing before you set a launch date.
Often just the website, and it is worth resisting the upsell. A rebrand is warranted when the identity actively contradicts what the company now does or who it now sells to. If the logo is simply dated but not wrong, a website that is clear and current usually solves the problem you actually have. The diagnostic on this site is built to tell the two situations apart.
Dave Curtin, from the first conversation to launch. There is no account manager between you and the person designing, and no handover to a junior team once the project is signed. That is the main practical difference between a one-person studio and an agency, and it cuts both ways: you get direct access and continuity, and the studio takes on fewer projects at a time.
Yes, and your team is trained before handover rather than sent a PDF afterwards. What you can change is agreed during the build, because that decision shapes how the site is built. A site where every page is freely editable is a different piece of work from one where the structure is fixed and the content is not.
Most of the work is with organisations elsewhere in Ireland, and some outside it. The studio is in Limerick and meetings happen in person when they justify the travel, which is usually at the start. Everything after that works over a call and a shared link, and it has not been the limiting factor on any project.
That is common and it is not a problem. Sometimes the useful piece of work is strategy and design that your developer builds, and sometimes it is fixing the structure of a site that already exists rather than replacing it. Describe what is already in place and the reply will say which of those it looks like, including when the honest answer is that you do not need a new project at all.
Useful thinking
Explore insightsDecisions before decoration.
01Website planningWhen a business has outgrown its website
How to tell whether a website needs restructuring or just needs redesigning, and why the distinction changes the budget.
02Brand decisionsBrand first, website first, or both together?
Whether to start with the brand or the website, and how to sequence the work so the same decisions are not paid for twice.
03TechnologyChoosing the right website platform in 2026
A comparison of WordPress, Webflow, Framer and custom builds, based on how your team publishes and what the site has to connect to.