Websites for artists and makers
Websites for work that means more once you know the story.
Sam and RobDialekt, Leeds
We're Sam and Rob, a small studio in Leeds. We build websites for artists, makers and the people looking after their work, where the story matters as much as the objects.
Sound familiar?
The usual portfolio siteA grid of thumbnails.
What the work deservesEach piece given proper room, like a gallery would.
The usual portfolio siteAn About page nobody reads.
What the work deservesThe story as the spine of the whole site.
The usual portfolio siteA template everyone else uses.
What the work deservesSomething that feels like the work.
Remarkable work. Nowhere to see it.
Some work only really lands when you understand the person who made it. The patience, the life around it, the reasons behind the pieces. Put it in a standard portfolio template and you get the objects without the person, which is half the point gone.
A portfolio shows the work. A good site tells you why it matters.
So we build around the story. A journey through the life or the practice, a collection that treats each piece with the seriousness a museum would, and the plain practical stuff (enquiries, sales, exhibitions) handled quietly in the background.
What you get
The story, told properly
The life or the practice as the backbone of the site, with archive photos brought to life where it helps.
- Story pages
- Archive
- Copy
A gallery, not a grid
Collection pages with proper space around each piece, closer to a catalogue than a portfolio.
- Collection pages
- Photography direction
Beyond the website
Exhibitions, print and the longer plan: getting the work in front of the people who should be seeing it.
- Exhibitions
- Outreach
Easy to keep adding to
Built on WordPress so you can add new work and news yourself without ringing anyone.
- WordPress
- Training
How it works
- 1
Talk
A short call. You tell us what you do and what the website isn't doing. We tell you straight whether we're the right people for it.
- 2
Dig
Free. We look at your website, Google and socials the way a stranger would, then send you a straight report on what's working and what isn't. No pitch, no quote.
- 3
Map
We turn what we found into a plan: what the site needs to say, which pages it needs, and in what order. You sign it off before anything gets built.
- 4
Build
We write it, design it and build it. You see it come together and sign off each stage.
- 5
Grow
Launch isn't the finish line. We watch how people actually use the site and keep improving it.
- 6
Flourish
Once it's settled, we step back every so often and look at the bigger picture: what's changed, what's next, and what to sharpen.
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The free Dig
Find out how your business looks to a stranger.
Send us your website or your Instagram. We'll tell you straight what's working and what isn't. Free, with no pitch and no quote on the end.
Get your free DigGive it a home.
Got work that deserves a proper home?
Tell us about the work, and the person behind it. We'll tell you how we'd approach it.
Projects start at £1,500, and most land between £2,500 and £5,000, depending on the size of the collection and how much story, archive and photography work is involved. You'll get a proper quote once we understand it.
Yes. The A.H. Guise site is exactly that: a daughter building a proper home for her late father's work. It's work we really enjoy.
Yes. Anything from an enquiry button on each piece to a full online shop, depending on how you sell.
Not necessarily. We'll help you work out what's usable, what needs reshooting, and how to get the best out of what you've got.
Yes. For A.H. Guise we worked on picture selection, printing and framing for the first public exhibition.
Yes. It's built so adding work and news is straightforward, and we'll show you how.