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Built from scratch.
Every site is designed and engineered for one specific brand. No themes, no template dressing, no shortcuts that show up later as constraints. The code is yours.
Marlow Studio designs and builds custom websites for businesses, artists, and brands. No templates, no theme dressing — every site is built from scratch around the audience it's for. Browse five recent projects below, then tell us about yours.
Five concept sites we built to demonstrate range — across hospitality, beauty, music, publishing, and play. Each is fictional, but every line of code, every word, and every layout decision is real. They're how we show what we can build before there's a brief on the table.
A small late-night ramen bar on Forsyth Street. The site reads the way the room feels — quiet, warm, finished by the time the city gets loud again.
A six-product Scandinavian skincare brand built around a single glacial spring in Northern Iceland. Quiet luxury commerce with a working cart.
An album site for a fictional electronic producer. Audio-reactive canvas visuals, scored typography, the cinema of a record cover taken seriously.
An independent travel magazine. Reading-first, longform-friendly, and built around an actual essay rather than the suggestion of one.
A four-person indie game studio in Toronto. The site is a small game itself — parallax world, custom cursor, characters that wave.
Every site is designed and engineered for one specific brand. No themes, no template dressing, no shortcuts that show up later as constraints. The code is yours.
Most sites ship in 7 days from kickoff — once we have your materials, we work in tight, focused engagements rather than dragging timelines that lose momentum. Larger projects scope longer, but speed is the default.
You work directly with the person designing and building your site. No account managers, no handoffs, no "we'll get back to you" loops.
Marlow Studio started in 2023, in a small apartment in Brooklyn, out of a frustration with the agency websites we kept being asked to build. Every brief began the same way: "something like this competitor's site, but ours." The work was rarely interesting and the results almost never were. So we stopped taking that work and started taking the kind we wanted to make.
Today we run a tight, focused practice — never more than three active projects at once, and never more than a dozen a year. Each engagement begins with a conversation rather than a brief template; we want to understand the business before we open a design file. We design and engineer in the same week, in the same browser, and we ship code, not mockups. Most projects close in ten to fourteen days from kickoff.
We believe a website is a building, not a billboard — it has to hold up at three a.m. on someone's phone in a kitchen, not just look correct in a presentation. We don't sell retainers, we don't run growth experiments on your homepage, and we don't outsource the work. We will tell you when we are not the right studio for the project, and that has happened before. The web is better when fewer sites look the same.
Tell us about your business and what you need. We respond within one business day, and we'll let you know within the week whether we're the right fit.
Most projects run between $1,500 and $10,000 depending on scope. We focus on small business sites, portfolios, brand pages, and small e-commerce builds. We're taking on a limited number of projects in 2026.
Prefer email? Reach us at hello@marlowstudio.design