
Japonica
Restraint is the whole brand. The garden-style imagery leads, with a hushed cream hero and a deep, elegant footer doing the rest. Simple, elegant, effective.
View project →We build fast, secure sites from scratch for makers and small businesses. No templates, no agency overhead, just clean work that loads quickly and keeps running. One pair of hands from first idea to launch, so your vision stays exactly as intended.
Considered, documented and personal, from first idea to handover.

Restraint is the whole brand. The garden-style imagery leads, with a hushed cream hero and a deep, elegant footer doing the rest. Simple, elegant, effective.
View project →Simple by design, the navy and a single teal accent doing all the work. A blog built into the site, a spare wordmark, and a bot agent in the brand's own plain voice.
View project →Elevated clarity starts here.
A calm, deep-teal product that matches property buyers to vetted agents. The icon, the matching capabilities, and a guided flow that animates as it finds your match.
View project →All concrete, light and restraint. A works archive laid out like a catalogue, full-bleed concrete imagery, and a cool palette of concrete, timber and stone.
Handcrafted, every one. A small set of marks drawn by hand in-house for a client's treatment menu, not pulled from an icon library. Proof that the studio makes its own details.
See the studio think
Flip the palette, the type and the layout. The same page recomposes in front of you. This is the thinking that goes into a build, held to one restrained system.
A live preview. Every choice is the studio's own system, moving.
A calm, considered presence for work that already deserves one.
View the workHow we work
A conversation, a direction you sign off, a build in small legible steps, then launch with a plain-English guide you keep. You always know where things are, so the whole thing runs smoothly.