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Lifestyle

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

Bespoke commerce and brand platforms for the DTC, wellness, and personal-brand world, built to stand apart in a sea of templated stores.

Salt & Stone
A cohesive brand system and e-commerce website driving triple-digit growth for a premium body care brand.
Aplós
A digital design system and e-commerce site for a new kind of non-alcoholic beverage.
Hinge
Content migration and feature development for the Hinge marketing site.
Loupe This
A custom-built, real-time auction engine and online community for luxury watch enthusiasts and collectors.
Alison Roman
A centralized platform for recipes, newsletters, and editorial storytelling, built for creative independence.
Presq
A bespoke shopping experience for a cutting edge approach to product development and manufacturing.
Air Company
Content strategy, art direction, campaign imagery, and website design for a company that turns CO₂ into consumer goods.
Youswim
A fluid ecommerce platform for a radically flexible swimsuit brand.

We work with brands who stand out in the market for their quality products, uncommon taste, and authentic values.

Through bespoke, expressive experiences, our work embodies the personality and ethos of our partners’ brands at every part of the customer journey.

Immersive storefronts and artful brand experiences

Brand Strategy & Design

We collaborate with lifestyle brands to uncover their essence and translate it into a compelling visual identity. By aligning design with strategic goals, we craft cohesive brand systems that resonate with audiences and stand out in competitive markets.

Product Strategy & Design

We bridge form and function to bring innovative digital products to life. Leveraging cutting-edge tools and thoughtful UX design, we deliver experiences, like bespoke platforms for exploring and engaging with art, that captivate and empower users.

Ecommerce Development

From seamless user flows to visually stunning storefronts, we create ecommerce solutions tailored to showcase the uniqueness of each brand. Our work transforms shopping into an immersive brand experience that drives both engagement and sales.

Content Management

With a focus on functionality and elegance, we design web apps that solve complex problems while delighting users. Drawing inspiration from high-caliber projects, we craft tools that are as beautiful as they are efficient.

A fluid ecommerce platform for Youswim

Youswim’s vision for a swimsuit that fits every body needed a website equally as flexible. A traditional ecommerce collection page wouldn’t do justice to the amount of possibility within the brand’s offering.

We designed a custom filtering system that gives the user the opportunity to see all styles, cuts, and colors simultaneously while browsing.

We then built a suite of features like editorial, user accounts, and internationalized pricing to support Youswim’s growth and users’ ease-of-use.

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The Youswim collection page showing a grid of models in different styles, cuts, and colors of swimwear.

Presq‘s bespoke, immersive shopping experience

Presq creates limited edition products made-to-order with 3D technology. We created an ecommerce platform that reflects the brand’s avant-garde approach, while providing for a nontraditional order fulfillment process.

We created an expressive shopping experience that builds a world around the user and their custom choices and experience. The product selection flow turns a limited product line into an artful environment, integrating our engaging and original design language without compromising functionality.

Because Presq drops products in limited releases made-to-order, they don’t actually hold inventory on-hand. We built a bespoke system for processing orders according to customer specifications.

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Loupe This: A realtime auction platform for luxury watches

Account management, bid placement, and multi-stage payment flows can feel unsexy. Loupe This wanted to create an elevated experience to reflect the luxury of the products they sell, consistent throughout all customer touchpoints. The result is an experience more akin to Cartier than eBay.

We built the core auction API using Ruby on Rails, backed by a Postgres database and a Redis cache layer. We coupled this with WebSocket and standard HTTP endpoints.

After building the foundational API, we embarked on building a premium user interface. We leveraged NextJS to build a combination of statically-generated content pages and interactive real-time auction pages. Content editors used Sanity CMS to compose modules for long-form content pages, as well as to populate auction pages with rich media and narrative.

We bolstered the growing community with a host of features to support social interaction between users on the platform. Loupe This launched in 2021, and we have continued to build new features and support their evolution as their audience grows.

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The Loupe This mobile auction screen for a Tudor Black Bay Fifty-Eight Gold watch, showing current bid, auction end time, and a register-to-bid button.

We design and build brands and experiences that capture the essence of our partners’ unique vision and translate it into elegant, custom solutions.

We are a friendly and collaborative team of cross-disciplinary digital craftspeople based in New York and around the world.

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