N° 014 — Vol. III—07°S 110°E
/ Cover
The Studio Issue

We make
quiet websites
for loud
ideas.

Works shipped
6+
across 5 sectors
Average build
3.2 wks
brief → live
Lighthouse
98/100
median, last 12 mo.
Studio size
2 + 1
no agency layer
Hand-coded.No templates.Owned by you.
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/ 01 — Index
Seven recent works, in reverse chronological order. Click through for the live site; ask if you would like a write-up.

Selected
works, /07

●FEATURED · 2026
Community · App
N° 07

Fast Female

A new app build, freshly underway — the early scaffolding of a members' space. Quiet weeks of structure and decisions before the public-facing release.

Fast Female is founded and led by Jess — the vision, the community and the standard it is held to are hers. We are alongside as cofounder, building the platform underneath her idea.

· React Router· App· In progress
app.fastfemale.io↗
“The first weeks are mostly listening.”
Founded by Jess · In build · 2026
Visit site →
06
2025
Wellbeing Champions
Community · Singapore
A members' space for a Singapore-based wellbeing network — a quiet home for resources, conversations and check-ins between champions, separate from the public-facing site.
community.wellbeingchampions.sg↗
05
2025
Barry Chou
Personal · Portfolio
A personal site for a writer and operator.
barrychou.com↗
04
2024
Smart Skin Clinic
Aesthetic clinic
Marketing site for a Jakarta dermatology and aesthetic clinic.
smartskinclinic.co.id↗
03
2024
Yayasan Pulih
Non-profit
Community-trauma foundation, working since 2002.
yayasanpulih.org↗
02
2023
Ebony Batulicin
Hospitality
Three-star hotel in Batulicin, South Kalimantan.
ebony-batulicin.com↗
01
2023
STP Coal
Industrial
Corporate site for a mining group.
stpcoal.co.id↗
Process documents, sketches and source files for any of these are available on request.
/ 02 — Practice
Five things, done seriously. Most engagements move between them.

What we
are good at,
and what we will refuse.

01
Brand websites
Most projects
Editorial, considered marketing sites for studios, founders and institutions. React Router, Astro, or hand-rolled — chosen for the brief, not the agency stack.
· React· Astro· Sanity / Payload· Type design
02
Editorial publications
For arts orgs
Long-form, archive-driven sites. Custom typography, footnotes, citations, slow scrolling. We treat the article as the unit of design.
· WordPress· Custom themes· MDX· Webfonts
03
Booking & commerce
Shipped 4×
Wellness platforms, mentorship marketplaces, lightweight stores. Stripe / Midtrans, room calendars, member areas. Built thin, kept honest.
· Stripe· Midtrans· Booking· Auth
04
Brand identity
Selective
Wordmarks, mini-systems, social kits. We design as your engineers, so the identity actually reaches production unbroken.
· Wordmark· System· Social kits
05
Care & evolution
Long-term
Monthly retainers for clients we’ve built for. Performance, copy edits, new sections, occasional crisis. No ticket portals — you message us.
· Retainer· Performance· Copywriting
/ Footnote
And what we won't.
—— Generic AI mock-ups dressed as design.
—— Theme reskins billed as custom builds.
—— SEO that smells like a content farm.
—— Engagements where the brief never settles.
/ Open lane
We hold one slot each quarter for schools, student organisations, small events and partnership work. Smaller scope, smaller invoice, same level of attention. If that is you, write anyway — there is a budget tier for it on the contact form.
If one of these is your shape, we should talk before the inbox fills up for the season.
Reply within 24h, weekdays JKT.
/ 03 — Studio
Founded 2022. Two principals, one rotating collaborator. Based out of two cities, one timezone.

A working
philosophy,
not a deck.

Most agencies sell volume. We sell attention. Each year we take a small number of projects we can hold in our heads at once — usually six, sometimes eight — and refuse the rest with a polite note. The work that survives this filter has time inside it: time to read your industry, draw the type, write the copy in your voice, and rewrite it on a Tuesday morning when something better suggests itself.

We are unfashionably suspicious of the generic. The web has enough auto-generated, faux-3D, gradient-drenched landing pages. What it needs more of is reading, restraint, and pages that load.

Selected for
  • — Wellbeing Champions, SG
  • — Barry Chou
  • — Smart Skin Clinic
  • — Yayasan Pulih
  • — Ebony Batulicin
  • — STP Coal
I
Slow looking.
Before the first artboard, we read everything you have written about yourselves. Half the design problems dissolve in that reading.
II
One author per surface.
Whoever designs the page also writes the CSS for it. We refuse the relay race that turns shape into approximation.
III
Boring stack, sharp edges.
Plain HTML where it works. React where it earns its keep. We pick tools we can still maintain three years from now.
IV
Type before image.
We will spend two days on a wordmark and two hours on a hero photo. The reading experience always carries more weight than the styling.
V
Stay until launch.
We do not hand off to your in-house team in week six and disappear. Launch is the meeting, not the milestone.
Currency
IDR · USD · SGD
Hours
Mon–Fri · 09–18 WIB
Languages
Indonesian · English
Out of office
First Sunday, monthly
/ 04 — Correspondence
Tell us a little about you. We answer every brief personally — usually within a working day.

Send the
first paragraph
of your brief.

Submission opens WhatsApp with your draft pre-filled.